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...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-81723

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment that rescans accumulated XML fragments on every 1...