CVE-1999-1299

High CVSS 10

Published 1997-02-03 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1299, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1299

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