CVE-2016-8714

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8714
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8714.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8714
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-10T10:59:00.157Z
Modified
2026-03-15T13:57:29.764366Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this vulnerability.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.3.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.3.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8714.json"