Advisories » MGASA-2017-0236

Updated R-base packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Aug 2017
Modification date: 03 Aug 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-8714

Description

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 (CVE-2016-8714).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20524
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3813
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8714

SRPMS

5/core

• R-base-3.1.2-2.1.mga5