pacman command injection vulnerability

pacman is a package manager used in Linux. A command injection vulnerability exists in the 'applydeltas' function in the lib/libalpm/sync.c file in pacman versions prior to 5.2. The vulnerability stems from a network system or product not properly filtering special elements of external input data...

CVE-2019-18183

pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in lib/libalpm/sync.c in the applydeltas 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...