pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in conf.c in the download_with_xfercommand() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable a non-default XferCommand and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and package.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-7987 pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in conf.c in the download_with_xfercommand() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable a non-default XferCommand and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and package.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:47:13.578Z

Reserved: 2019-10-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-18182

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-02-24T15:15:11.377

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:32:47.003

Link: CVE-2019-18182

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