Executive Summary

Summary
Title NLTK vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4106-1 First vendor Publication 2019-08-20
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-08-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

NLTK could be made to overwrite files.

Software Description: - nltk: Python libraries for natural language processing

Details:

Mike Salvatore discovered that NLTK mishandled crafted ZIP archives during extraction. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
python-nltk 3.4-1ubuntu0.1
python3-nltk 3.4-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
python-nltk 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1
python3-nltk 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
python-nltk 3.1-1ubuntu0.1
python3-nltk 3.1-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4106-1
CVE-2019-14751

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nltk/3.4-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nltk/3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nltk/3.1-1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4106-1

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Date Informations
2019-08-20 21:19:13
  • First insertion