• [Python-announce] PyCA cryptography 39.0.1 released

    From Paul Kehrer@paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com to comp.lang.python.announce on Tue Feb 7 13:48:46 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.python.announce

    PyCA cryptography 39.0.1 has been released to PyPI. cryptography
    includes both high level recipes and low level interfaces to common cryptographic algorithms such as symmetric ciphers, asymmetric
    algorithms, message digests, X509, key derivation functions, and much
    more. We support Python 3.6+, and PyPy3.

    Changelog (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/#v39-0-1)

    * SECURITY ISSUE - Fixed a bug where Cipher.update_into accepted
    Python buffer protocol objects, but allowed immutable buffers.
    CVE-2023-23931
    * Updated Windows, macOS, and Linux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 3.0.8.

    -Paul Kehrer (reaperhulk)
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