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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-1999-1299

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2016-10-18T02:02:50.257

Link: CVE-1999-1299

cve-icon Redhat

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