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Ubuntu: USN-4106-1 (CVE-2019-14751): NLTK vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4106-1 (CVE-2019-14751): NLTK vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/20/2019
Created
08/23/2019
Added
08/21/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-nltk
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-nltk

References

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