gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200801-02">
<title>R: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Multiple vulnerabilities in R could result in the execution of arbitrary
code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">R</product>
<announced>2008-01-09</announced>
<revised count="02">2008-01-09</revised>
<bug>198976</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-lang/R" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.2.1-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.2.1-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
R is a GPL licensed implementation of S, a language and environment for
statistical computing and graphics. PCRE is a library providing
functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
R includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer
overflows and memory corruptions vulnerabilities (GLSA 200711-30).
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
An attacker could entice a user to process specially crafted regular
expressions with R, which could possibly lead to the execution of
arbitrary code, a Denial of Service or the disclosure of sensitive
information.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All R users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/R-2.2.1-r1"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml">GLSA 200711-30</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-20T22:35:44Z">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-21T00:08:56Z">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-01-03T22:08:35Z">
py2
</metadata>
</glsa>