CVE-2019-18183
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 24, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 17, 2019
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/lib/libalpm/sync.c?h=v5.1.3#n767
- https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=c0e9be7973be6c81b22fde91516fb8991e7bb07b
- https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-secdb/blob/master/v3.11/community.yaml
- FEDORA-2020-096fbcc91fvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2020-781d0b2efevendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2020-419a75aef6vendor-advisory
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