libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Libxml2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to potentially compromise an application using the library. 1 An integer overflow error in the "xmlSAX2Characters" function can be exploited to trigge...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: R-2.7.2-1.fc9

A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, tim...

CVE-2008-3931

javareconf in R 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2008-3931

javareconf in R 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2008-3931

javareconf in R 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2008-3931

Summary of CVE-2008-3931 (R-base): A symlink-based vulnerability in the javareconf script of R allowed local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via insecure temporary file handling. The issue is rooted in the way temporary files are created by javareconf, enabling a local write when the scrip...

CVE-2008-3931

javareconf in R 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...