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CVE-1999-1299
Published: Sep 12, 2001
Modified: Aug 1, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
19970203 Linux rcp bug
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