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Fedora 26: Important Fix for Critical Rkward Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security patch addresses memory overflow issues in rkward for Fedora 26, improving both system integrity and efficiency.
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. ---- Rebuilt for fc26

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical fix 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 26
Version: 0.6.5
Release: 5.fc26
URL: https://rkward.kde.org/
Summary: Graphical frontend for R language

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical fix rkward

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