Advisories » MGASA-2020-0160

Updated python-nltk packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Apr 2020
Modification date: 05 Apr 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-14751

Description

Updated python-ntlk package fixes security vulnerability:

A vulnerability was found in NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable
to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via
a ../ in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction
(CVE-2019-14751).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26403
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZGZSSEJH7RHH3RBUEVWWYT75QU67J7SE/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14751

SRPMS

7/core

• python-nltk-3.4.5-1.1.mga7