CVE-2016-8714

2017-03-1000:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

58.7%

JSON

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchr-base< 3.0.2-1ubuntu1.1~esm2UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchr-base< 3.2.3-4ubuntu0.1~esm3UNKNOWN