FYI there is also a bug tracker report about this: https://bugs.python.org/issue27587
On 23 July 2016 at 13:22, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > On 2016-07-22 16:36, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Somebody did some research and found some bugs in CPython (IIUC). The >> published some questionable fragments. If there's a volunteer we could >> probably easily fix these. (I know we already have occasional Coverity >> scans and there are other tools too (anybody try lgtm yet?) But this >> seems honest research (also Python leaves Ruby in the dust :-): >> >> http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0414/ > > I had a closer look at the report. About half of the bugs, maybe more > are not in the C code of CPython but in OpenSSL code. I really mean > OpenSSL code, not _ssl.c and _hashopenssl.c. It's safe to assume that > they forgot to exclude external dependencies. > > The issues in ASN1_PRINTABLE_type() [N2], BN_mask_bits() [N4 bn_lib.c, > digest.c, evp_enc.c], dh_cms_set_peerkey() [N5, dh_ameth.c] and > cms_env_set_version() [N6, cms_env.c] are all OpenSSL issues and should > be reported to OpenSSL. > > Guido, did the company contact you or do you have Pavel Belikov's email > address? Perhaps you can contact him via the email address at <https://bugs.python.org/user24304>. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
