Bug 1809300 (CVE-2019-18183) - CVE-2019-18183 pacman: allows arbitrary command injection in lib/libalpm/sync.c in apply_deltas function
Summary: CVE-2019-18183 pacman: allows arbitrary command injection in lib/libalpm/sync...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2019-18183
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1809301
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-03-02 19:38 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-03-03 04:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-03-03 04:32:03 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-03-02 19:38:47 UTC 
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.

Reference and upstream commit:
https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=c0e9be7973be6c81b22fde91516fb8991e7bb07b
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-03-02 19:39:03 UTC 
Created pacman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1809301]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-03 04:32:03 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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