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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2014-10-17 19:28:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2014-10-17 19:28:30 +0200 |
| commit | e4eda4d33f40e6e868d895915facc8c24265b584 (patch) | |
| tree | f05ed0b3f28efb70ab5bcefd46269770d0573200 | |
| parent | c2c62b13ce512b5000cd659d08505be607fa7c4a (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-e4eda4d33f40e6e868d895915facc8c24265b584.tar.gz | |
Issue #22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library.
It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/ssl.py | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ssl.py b/Lib/ssl.py index 8854e37748..d74b340a7f 100644 --- a/Lib/ssl.py +++ b/Lib/ssl.py @@ -454,6 +454,9 @@ def _create_stdlib_context(protocol=PROTOCOL_SSLv23, *, cert_reqs=None, context = SSLContext(protocol) # SSLv2 considered harmful. context.options |= OP_NO_SSLv2 + # SSLv3 has problematic security and is only required for really old + # clients such as IE6 on Windows XP + context.options |= OP_NO_SSLv3 if cert_reqs is not None: context.verify_mode = cert_reqs @@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library. + It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually. + - Issue #22641: In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security. |