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Critical
CVE-1999-1299
rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows...
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Affected Vendor
redhat
View all reports →Affected Software
linux, slackware linux
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0, 3.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 12th, 2001
Last Modified:
August 1st, 2024
Added to House:
July 17th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.