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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-ae18216e75 Moderate: rpy Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25 has released an update to mitigate the buffer overflow vulnerability found in rpy, identified as CVE-2016-8714. Detailed installation steps are provided.
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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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update buffer overflow moderate severity software fix rpy

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 25
Version: 2.8.5
Release: 3.fc25
URL: https://pypi.org/project/rpy2/
Summary: Python interface to the R language

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update buffer overflow moderate severity software fix rpy

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