Bug 1170701 - Please don’t use python-rsa
Summary: Please don’t use python-rsa
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-boto
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Garrett Holmstrom
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2890
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-04 16:04 UTC by Miloslav Trmač
Modified: 2015-04-09 01:36 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-04-09 01:36:38 UTC
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Description Miloslav Trmač 2014-12-04 16:04:30 UTC
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Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2014-12-04 16:08:00 UTC
python-boto-0:2.34.0-4.fc20.noarch depends on python-rsa, which is a very naive implementation of RSA with known unfixed vulnerabilities, e.g. https://bitbucket.org/sybren/python-rsa/issue/19/vulnerable-to-side-channel-attacks-on ).  See also bug 1170702.

I strongly recommend replacing its use by a python module that wraps one of the mainstream crypto libraries, perhaps M2Crypto.RSA or cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa .

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2014-12-04 16:15:41 UTC
Shouldn't this be reported upstream instead/also? https://github.com/boto/boto/issues

Comment 3 Ken Dreyer 2015-01-16 15:39:54 UTC
You're right Orion. I've reported it upstream today: https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/2889

Comment 4 Boris Ranto 2015-01-16 16:13:23 UTC
Upstream pull request: https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/2890

Comment 5 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 16:33:52 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 6 Garrett Holmstrom 2015-04-09 01:36:38 UTC
I am quite reluctant to change crypto libraries without cooperation from the upstream maintainers, so let's let this discussion play out in the pull request.


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