April 29, 2024, 10:50 a.m. | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

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A security vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that could be exploited by a threat actor to create a malicious RDS (R Data Serialization) file such that it results in code execution when loaded and referenced.
The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-27322, "involves the use of promise objects and lazy evaluation in R," AI application security

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