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CVE-1999-1299

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 1997-02-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

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

Slackware Slackware LinuxRedhat Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References