Bug 830620 (CVE-2021-3842)

Summary:	<dev-python/nltk-3.6.6: ReDoS vulnerability
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	python
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/2a50a3edc9d35f57ae42a921c621edc160877f4d
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	830641
Bug Blocks:

Description John Helmert III archtester

2022-01-05 00:22:13 UTC

CVE-2021-3842:

nltk is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Please stabilize 3.6.6.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2023-01-19 06:18:13 UTC

Package removed (though we had removed the old version some time ago, sorry!).

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2023-01-19 15:39:58 UTC

Thanks! ReDoS -> noglsa