CVE-1999-1299 - rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of

CVE-1999-1299

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.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420509&w=2

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	10.0 (as of 18-10-2016 - 02:02)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
COMPLETE	COMPLETE	COMPLETE

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

refmap via4

bugtraq

19970203 Linux rcp bug

Last major update

18-10-2016 - 02:02

Published

03-02-1997 - 05:00

Last modified

18-10-2016 - 02:02