CVE

Id
1279  
CVE No.
CVE-1999-1299  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Proposed (20010912)  
Votes
MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(2) Cole, Foat  
Comments
Frech> XF:rcp-nobody-file-overwrite(7187)