CVE-1999-1299
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
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Affected
- redhat:linux
- slackware:slackware_linux