Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : R vulnerability (USN-4799-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4799-1 advisory. It was discovered that a buffer overflow in R causes memory corruption. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

USN-4799-1 r-base vulnerability

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in R causes memory corruption. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2017-14730

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LSUSER account for creation of a hard link...