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openSUSE Security Update : python-nltk (openSUSE-2020-436)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135162

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for python-nltk fixes the following issues :

Update to 3.4.5 (boo#1146427, CVE-2019-14751) :

 - CVE-2019-14751: Fixed Zip slip vulnerability in downloader for the unlikely situation where a user configures their downloader to use a compromised server (boo#1146427)

Update to 3.4.4 :

 - fix bug in plot function (probability.py)

 - add improved PanLex Swadesh corpus reader

 - add Text.generate()

 - add QuadgramAssocMeasures

 - add SSP to tokenizers

 - return confidence of best tag from AveragedPerceptron

 - make plot methods return Axes objects

 - don't require list arguments to PositiveNaiveBayesClassifier.train

 - fix Tree classes to work with native Python copy library

 - fix inconsistency for NomBank

 - fix random seeding in LanguageModel.generate

 - fix ConditionalFreqDist mutation on tabulate/plot call

 - fix broken links in documentation

 - fix misc Wordnet issues

 - update installation instructions

Version update to 3.4.1 :

 - add chomsky_normal_form for CFGs

 - add meteor score

 - add minimum edit/Levenshtein distance based alignment function

 - allow access to collocation list via text.collocation_list()

 - support corenlp server options

 - drop support for Python 3.4

 - other minor fixes

Update to v3.4 :

 - Support Python 3.7

 - New Language Modeling package

 - Cistem Stemmer for German

 - Support Russian National Corpus incl POS tag model

 - Krippendorf Alpha inter-rater reliability test

 - Comprehensive code clean-ups

 - Switch continuous integration from Jenkins to Travis

Updated to v3.3 :

 - Support Python 3.6

 - New interface to CoreNLP

 - Support synset retrieval by sense key

 - Minor fixes to CoNLL Corpus Reader

 - AlignedSent

 - Fixed minor inconsistencies in APIs and API documentation

 - Better conformance to PEP8

 - Drop Moses Tokenizer (incompatible license)

Solution

Update the affected python-nltk packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1146427

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135162

File Name: openSUSE-2020-436.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2020

Updated: 3/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-nltk, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-nltk

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14751