Vulnerability Spotlight: R – PDF LoadEncoding Code Execution Vulnerability

By Talos Group Vulnerability Discovered by Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos Overview Talos is disclosing TALOS-2016-0227 / CVE-2016-8714 which is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. The R programming language is commonly used in statistical computing and is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. R is praised […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice