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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-18183: OS Command Injection

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-18183: OS Command Injection

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/24/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-pacman

References

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