Thanks for the heads-up.
What are the type of attacks that you expect R users might be affected
by? Most problems discussed on the libcurl mailing lists are local
vulnerabilities. E.g. an out-of-bounds read or buffer overflow exploit
doesn't do anything that can easily be done from R itself?
I gu
(didn't know where else to post this, but pkg authors seemed to be a
good group to run this by)
Some folks may know I work in cybersecurity and my org's been talking
with the curl/libcurl community regarding:
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-10/0076.html
TLDR: there's a new libcurl/curl coming
