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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-81724
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying deeply nested feature-structure input. Attackers can craft trivial payloads with nested brackets that exceed Python's recursion limit and raise an unhandled RecursionError, crashing applications that parse user-supplied feature structures or feature grammars.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
nltk
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13
nltk
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:14
nltk
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.10.3-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org