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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-1999-1280 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:01.725Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1299

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 1997-02-03T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-1299

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