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[Security] Bump cryptography from 39.0.0 to 39.0.1

HIFIS Bot requested to merge dependabot-pip-cryptography-39.0.1 into main

Bumps cryptography from 39.0.0 to 39.0.1. This update includes a security fix.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Cipher.update_into can corrupt memory if passed an immutable python object as the outbuf Previously, Cipher.update_into would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol, but provide only immutable buffers:

>>> outbuf = b"\x00" * 32
>>> c = ciphers.Cipher(AES(b"\x00" * 32), modes.ECB()).encryptor()
>>> c.update_into(b"\x00" * 16, outbuf)
16
>>> outbuf
b'\xdc\x95\xc0x\xa2@\x89\x89\xadH\xa2\x14\x92\x84 \x87\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

This would allow immutable objects (such as bytes) to be mutated, thus violating fundamental rules of Python. This is a soundness bug -- it allows programmers to misuse an API, it cannot be exploited by attacker controlled data alone.

This now correctly raises an exception.

This issue has been present since update_into was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.

Patched versions: 39.0.1 Affected versions: >= 1.8, < 39.0.1

Changelog

Sourced from cryptography's changelog.

39.0.1 - 2023-02-07


* **SECURITY ISSUE** - Fixed a bug where ``Cipher.update_into`` accepted Python
  buffer protocol objects, but allowed immutable buffers. **CVE-2023-23931**
* Updated Windows, macOS, and Linux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 3.0.8.
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