GHSA-VP2X-QP44-57V7 NLTK: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`

Summary XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment reads a corpus file in 1 KiB blocks, appending each block to a growing fragment string, then calls VALIDXMLRE.matchfragment on the full accumulated buffer every iteration. Because each iteration rescans the entire accumulated fragment, the total amount of wor...

Duplicate Advisory: Pl196xCorpusReader has quadratic ReDoS on malformed TEI blocks

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-8mpw-7fpc-4gqj. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Pl196xCorpusReader that allows...

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Overview nltk is a Natural Language Toolkit NLTK is a Python package for natural language processing. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the readblock method of TEICorpusView nltk/corpus/reader/pl196x.py, whose lazy .? whole-block regexes...