VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-1999-1299
CVSS score10 NONE
EPSS probability1.84%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1997-02-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other