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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2014-10-17 19:28:30 +0200
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2014-10-17 19:28:30 +0200
commit29de910f61224444c384bc57c12bcffa620b8788 (patch)
tree865e58cd5fb871feaebd9fbe5c05d01e7cd164ed
parent00757e0f10c89f0c20b32fb60052698316e2d222 (diff)
downloadcpython-29de910f61224444c384bc57c12bcffa620b8788.tar.gz
Backport disabling of SSLv3 in ssl._create_stdlib_context() (issue #22638).
The backport currently doesn't achieve anything since the function isn't used (yet).
-rw-r--r--Lib/ssl.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ssl.py b/Lib/ssl.py
index dea893cf77..025aadeff4 100644
--- a/Lib/ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/ssl.py
@@ -445,6 +445,9 @@ 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