pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in lib/libalpm/sync.c in the apply_deltas() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable the non-default delta feature and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and delta file.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-7988 pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in lib/libalpm/sync.c in the apply_deltas() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable the non-default delta feature and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and delta file.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:47:13.529Z

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

Link: CVE-2019-18183

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-02-24T15:15:11.457

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:32:47.153

Link: CVE-2019-18183

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