CVE-1999-1299
CRITICAL
10.0
CVSS Severity Score
Vulnerability 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 Platforms (CPE)
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Redhat
Linux
= 4.0💻
Slackware