Utgivning av paketförvaltaren Pacman 5.2
Release of package manager Pacman 5.2, used in the Arch Linux distribution, is now available. Among the changes, the complete removal of support for delta-updates, which allowed loading only changes, stands out. This feature has been removed due to a vulnerability (CVE-2019-18183) that allowed the execution of arbitrary commands in the system using unsigned databases. For an attack to be successful, the user would need to download preparatory attacker files with the database and delta-update. Support for delta-updates […]
