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)