cve/2019/CVE-2019-18183.md

### [CVE-2019-18183](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18183)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/FritzJo/pacheck