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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-ae18216e75 Moderate: Rkward Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25 has patched the software package rkward to address a critical buffer overflow vulnerability classified as CVE-2016-8714, thereby enhancing its overall security posture.
Update to 3.3.3

Summary

RKWard aims to provide an easily extensible, easy to use IDE/GUI for the

R-project. RKWard tries to combine the power of the R-language with the

(relative) ease of use of commercial statistics tools. Long term plans

include integration with office suites

Update Information:

Update to 3.3.3. Fix CVE-2016-8714.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Fedora rkward

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 rkward' 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: rkward
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.6.5
Release: 5.fc25
URL: https://rkward.kde.org/
Summary: Graphical frontend for R language

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Fedora rkward

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