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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2013-08-16 22:58:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2013-08-16 22:58:00 (GMT) |
| commit | e06d47c70cbef8ae77efe0e64cde3e682b66cb05 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ef0b5989302c49cc67e9f729d6cc26f97f260ce /Misc | |
| parent | 01a513b5d3d94c281f8b0eb8916af51ccddf8534 (diff) | |
| parent | a3811e4b8f70790a3dc8768a455cb8836670de37 (diff) | |
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Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes
inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1
strings for rfc822Name (email), dNSName (DNS) and
uniformResourceIdentifier (URI).
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@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes + inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's + GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1 + strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and + ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI). + - Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code. - Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure |