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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 3, 1997· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-1999-1299

CVE-1999-1299

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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Affected products

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  • Red Hat/Linux2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 4.0
  • Slackware/Linux
    cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Linux/rcpllm-create

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