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...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2017-0236)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

R PDF LoadEncoding Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2016-8714)

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...

Fedora 26 : R / rkward / rpy (2017-07c8f3ea2b)

Update to 3.3.3. Fix CVE-2016-8714. ---- Rebuilt for fc26 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

Fedora 24 : R / rkward / rpy (2017-da9d0f0dc0)

Update to 3.3.3. Fix CVE-2016-8714. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora Update for rkward FEDORA-2017-ae18216e75

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for rkward FEDORA-2017-da9d0f0dc0

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Fedora 25 : R / rkward / rpy (2017-ae18216e75)

Update to 3.3.3. Fix CVE-2016-8714. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3813-1] r-base security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3813-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 19, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3813-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

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...