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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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420509&w=2 |
History
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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
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 1997-02-03T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:30:47.107
Link: CVE-1999-1299
Redhat
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