Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0236 (R-base)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0236: Updated R-base packages fix security vulnerability 
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Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:06:21 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0236 - Updated R-base packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Aug 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0236.html
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
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8714

SRPMS:
- 5/core/R-base-3.1.2-2.1.mga5