Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 3, 1997· Updated Apr 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.
Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- marc.infonvd
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