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CVE-1999-1299
- Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 1997-02-03 · updated 2026-06-16
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
- RedHat Linux: 4.0
- Slackware Linux: 3.1
References
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