Researcher Claims Samsung's Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs!

A researcher has claimed that Samsung's Tizen operating system that runs on millions of Samsung products is so poorly programmed that it could contain nearly 27,000 programming errors, which could also lead to thousands of vulnerabilities. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source operating system backe...

Super Android Analyzer

Super Android Analyzer Secure, Unified, Powerful and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer SUPER is a command-line application that can be used in Windows, MacOS X and Linux, that analyzes .apk files in search for vulnerabilities. It does this by decompressing APKs and applying a series of rules to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: golang-1.7.6-1.fc25

The Go Programming Language...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: chicken-4.12.0-2.fc25

CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS Scheme language standard, and includes many enhancements and extensions...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: chicken-4.12.0-2.fc24

CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS Scheme language standard, and includes many enhancements and extensions...

Medium: R

Issue Overview: An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: erlang-19.3-2.fc26

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: erlang-19.3-2.fc25

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: erlang-18.3.4.5-2.fc24

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson...

CentOS 6 : ocaml (CESA-2017:0565)

An update for ocaml is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: rpy-2.8.5-3.fc25

RPy provides a robust Python interface to the R programming language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions. All the errors from the R language are converted to Python exceptions...

Debian DLA-861-1 : r-base security update

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this vulnerability. For Debian 7...

Debian DSA-3813-1 : r-base - security update

Cory Duplantis discovered a buffer overflow in the R programming language. A malformed encoding file may lead to the execution of arbitrary code during PDF generation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

[SECURITY] [DLA 861-1] r-base security update

Package : r-base Version : 2.15.1-4+deb7u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-8714 Debian Bug : 857466 An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An...

CVE-2016-8714

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this vulnerability...

Buffer overflow

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this vulnerability...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8714

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this vulnerability...

CVE-2016-8714

CVE-2016-8714 is a buffer overflow in R’s LoadEncoding pathway affecting R-base around 3.3.x. Multiple disclosures (Ubuntu USN-4799-1, Mageia MGASA-2017-0236, Debian DLA-861-1, Fedora advisories) report memory corruption risk or potential arbitrary code execution via crafted encoding data or PDFs...

CVE-2016-8714

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this vulnerability...

R PDF LoadEncoding Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this...