| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-1999-1299 (CCN-7187) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 1997-02-03 | ||||||||
| Published: | 1997-02-03 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2016-10-18 | ||||||||
| Summary: | 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. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 10.0 Critical (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 10.0 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-Other | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Privileges | ||||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:20:22 -0600 Linux rcp bug Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-1999-1299 Source: BUGTRAQ Type: UNKNOWN 19970203 Linux rcp bug Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 13025 Multiple Vendor Linux rcp nobody User Arbitrary File Overwrite Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN rcp-nobody-file-overwrite(7187) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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