Re: [Python-Dev] OpenSSL Security Advisory [9 Jul 2015]

2015-07-09 Thread Christian Heimes
On 2015-07-09 15:29, Christian Heimes wrote: > Hi, > > this just came in. According to Zachary all Windows builds use 1.0.2c. > The version is vulnerable to a critical bug in the CA validation code of > OpenSSL. The bug can be abused to turn any valid server certificate into > a CA cert. > > We s

[Python-Dev] OpenSSL Security Advisory [9 Jul 2015]

2015-07-09 Thread Christian Heimes
Hi, this just came in. According to Zachary all Windows builds use 1.0.2c. The version is vulnerable to a critical bug in the CA validation code of OpenSSL. The bug can be abused to turn any valid server certificate into a CA cert. We should consider a security release of Python ASAP. Alternat