[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...

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

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

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: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: chicken-4.11.0-3.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: compat-guile18-1.8.8-14.fc24

GUILE GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs. Install the compat-guile18...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: compat-guile18-1.8.8-14.fc25

GUILE GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs. Install the compat-guile18...