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Fedora 24 rpy Update 3.3.3 Critical Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notif
Update to 3.3.3

Summary

RPy provides a robust Python interface to the R

programming language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can

execute arbitrary R functions. All the errors from the R language are

converted to Python exceptions.

Update Information:

Update to 3.3.3. Fix CVE-2016-8714.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1431171 - CVE-2016-8714 R: Buffer overflow in the LoadEncoding functionality https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431171

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade rpy' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: rpy
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.8.5
Release: 3.fc24
URL: https://pypi.org/project/rpy2/
Summary: Python interface to the R language

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