Bug#1074423: nltk: CVE-2024-39705

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: nltk
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for nltk.

CVE-2024-39705[0]:
| NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted
| packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package
| download functionality is used. This affects, for example,
| averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-39705
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39705

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.