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Debian: CVE-2020-27637: r-base -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 12, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The R programming language’s default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. Update to version 4.0.3

Solution

debian-upgrade-r-base
Title
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