CVE-1999-1299

Published Feb 3, 1997

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 10
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C9092D88-585D-4A0C-B181-E8D93563C74B"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "9FDBA67D-84A7-42D6-A994-7C967B6306D3"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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