Security Information / 2017 / Security Information -- DSA-3813-1 r-base

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3813-1 r-base -- security update

Date Reported:

19 Mar 2017

Affected Packages:

r-base

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-8714.

More information:

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.

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.