uutils coreutils doesn't properly handle setuid and setgid bits when ownership preservation fails

The cp utility in uutils coreutils fails to properly handle setuid and setgid bits when ownership preservation fails. When copying with the -p preserve flag, the utility applies the source mode bits even if the chown operation is unsuccessful. This can result in a user-owned copy retaining origin...

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 interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file...