Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-27637: R: Directory Traversal
10
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
01/12/2021
01/09/2024
01/08/2024
01/08/2024
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(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-r
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