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Bug 1431171 (CVE-2016-8714) - CVE-2016-8714 R: Buffer overflow in the LoadEncoding functionality
Summary: CVE-2016-8714 R: Buffer overflow in the LoadEncoding functionality
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-8714
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1431173 1431174
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-10 14:17 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:08:54 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-10 14:17:48 UTC 
An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version. 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.

External References:

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0227/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-10 14:18:37 UTC 
Created R tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1431174]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1431173]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:08:54 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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