critical10.0
CVE-1999-1299
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 interpre…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat | Linux | Version 4.0 |
| Slackware | Slackware Linux | Version 3.1 |