Ubuntu: USN-4106-1 (CVE-2019-14751): NLTK vulnerability
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
08/20/2019
08/23/2019
08/21/2019
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
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