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.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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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. |
References
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| http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420509&w=2 |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:01.725Z
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-1999-1299
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Status : Modified
Published: 1997-02-03T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627
Link: CVE-1999-1299
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD