Vulnerability Details CVE-1999-1299
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 64.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 10.0
References
Products affected by CVE-1999-1299
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.1