Duplicate Advisory: Uncontrolled recursion in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader causes unhandled RecursionError (DoS) via deeply nested feature-structure input
GHSA-pf76-q698-37v8
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Description
Duplicate Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-cw6x-m8jw-qmrh. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
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.
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