On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 06:33:50AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Hi Moritz, > > On 30 April 2018 at 23:54, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > | Hi Dirk, > | > | On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:33:48PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > There is no GUI in R on > | > Linux (there used to be a Gnome1/Gtk one a loooong time ago). > | > | Ah, ok. I wasn't aware of that. > | > | Even if we'd build some kind of GUI, tricking a user into manually pasting > | an overly long string into a specific input box is quite a stretch for > | labelling a bug a security issue.... > > Upstream had the same sentiment ... but fixed it: > > > https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/c7263b067451b9cd553c4f42dd2b54b82689fbb4 > > (that is the easier-to-use git mirror of their svn)
Thanks for confirming. > They aren't quite sure how to get back CVE/Mitre now. Do you have any tips / > suggestions / HOWTOs ? Best to use the https://cveform.mitre.org/ form: "Select a request type" -> "Request and update to an existing CVE entry" and for "Type of update requested" select "Update description". Those are usually processed within a working day. Cheers, Moritz
