CVE-1999-1299

First published: Mon Feb 03 1997(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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