Vulnerability Spotlight: R -PDF LoadEncoding Code Execution Vulnerability
Publish Time: 09 Mar, 2017

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 for having a large variety of statistical and graphical features. The vulnerability is specifically related to the creation of a PDF document.

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