CVE-2019-18182 - log back

CVE-2019-18182 edited at 17 Oct 2019 14:57:50
Description
- pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in conf.c in the download_with_xfercommand() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable a non-default XferCommand and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and package.
+ pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in src/pacman/conf.c in the download_with_xfercommand() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable a non-default XferCommand and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and package.
CVE-2019-18182 edited at 17 Oct 2019 14:57:04
Severity
- Unknown
+ High
Remote
- Unknown
+ Remote
Type
- Unknown
+ Arbitrary command execution
Description
+ pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in conf.c in the download_with_xfercommand() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable a non-default XferCommand and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and package.
References
+ https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/src/pacman/conf.c?h=v5.1.3#n263
+ https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=808a4f15ce82d2ed7eeb06de73d0f313620558ee
Notes
CVE-2019-18182 created at 17 Oct 2019 14:54:51