CVE-1999-1299

published 1997-02-03

CVE-1999-1299: rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is…

critical 10 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L Au N C C I C A C

rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
redhat	linux	—	—
slackware	slackware_linux	—	—