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
Link | Resource |
---|---|
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420509&w=2 |
History
No history.
MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00
Updated: 2016-10-17T13:57:01
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-1999-1299
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 1997-02-03T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2016-10-18T02:02:50.257
Link: CVE-1999-1299
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
No data.
CWE