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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2017.0722 r-base security update 20 March 2017 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: r-base Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 8 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows OS X Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2016-8714 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3813 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running r-base check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3813-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 19, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : r-base CVE ID : CVE-2016-8714 Cory Duplantis discovered a buffer overflow in the R programming langauage. A malformed encoding file may lead to the execution of arbitrary code during PDF generation. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-1+deb8u1. For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your r-base packages. 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