Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title r-base security update
Informations
Name DSA-3813 First vendor Publication 2017-03-19
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2017-03-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Cory Duplantis discovered a buffer overflow in the R programming langauage. A malformed encoding file may lead to the execution of arbitrary code during PDF generation.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-1+deb8u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your r-base packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3813

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-12-02 R Project PDF encoding buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40895 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2016-12-02 R Project PDF encoding buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40894 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2017-07c8f3ea2b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2017-da9d0f0dc0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2017-ae18216e75.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-861.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3813.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-03-21 13:25:55
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-19 13:21:43
  • First insertion