| CVE-ID | ||
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CVE-1999-1299 |
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| 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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| Assigning CNA | ||
| MITRE Corporation | ||
| Date Record Created | ||
| 20010831 | Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE. | |
| Phase (Legacy) | ||
| Proposed (20010912) | ||
| Votes (Legacy) | ||
| MODIFY(1) Frech NOOP(2) Cole, Foat |
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| Comments (Legacy) | ||
Frech> XF:rcp-nobody-file-overwrite(7187) |
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| Proposed (Legacy) | ||
| 20010912 | ||
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