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CVE-1999-1299

CVE information

Published

27 years ago

Last Modified

7 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
10/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -