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CVE-1999-1299

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Published: Feb 3, 1997Modified: Apr 16, 2026

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10.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 10.0
Source: NVD

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.

Affected (2)

1 product
Linux
1 product
Slackware Linux
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 4.0
Version 3.1

References (2)

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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