CVE-1999-1299

CVE-1999-1299 concerns rcp on various Linux systems, including Red Hat 4.0. Root cause: UID 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and related system calls, causing ownership changes to fail and potentially allow a nobody or UID 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files. Impact: writable/overwritable files...

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...