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...