Re: pycrypto buffer overflow (potentially affects onionshare and other packages)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:41:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > Based on my discussion with the Stem maintainer, I removed pycrypto from
>> > the dependency graph of OnionShare and added a comment about removing
>> > the pycrypto package in 4de2a710a6a309a1601f1cf6fc15b9b638d3a3cb and
>> > 1194575b3c44969e4f68cd10a62e6ed8603e39b4, respectively.
>> 
>> Thanks.  Looks like another case of an important piece of software
>> lacking a maintainer…
>
> At this point, I think it's recommended to use the 'cryptography'
> module, which we have as python-cryptography. This seems to be where all
> the development energy is being spent.
>
> Debian adapted the upstream patch:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/python-crypto.git/commit/?id=0de2243837ed369a086f15c50cca2be85bdfab9d
>
> What do people think?

Maybe we should apply this patch as well as progressively migrate to
python-cryptography whenever possible?

Ludo’.