[Security-sig] 3.3 and 3.4 branches not well maintained

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 13:07:57 EST 2017


Hi,

I completed my list of vulnerabilities. It helps to track if a
vulnerability has been fixed in all security maintained branches.
http://python-security.readthedocs.io/vulnerabilities.html

Currently, the following branches are maintained for security: 2.7,
3.3, 3.4, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6
https://docs.python.org/devguide/#status-of-python-branches

I looked at the 5 latest vulnerabilities, and we didn't backport fixes
to all maintained branches:

Issue #28563:
  3.3 backported, no release yet
CVE-2016-2183:
  3.3 and 3.4 not fixed yet <====
  https://bugs.python.org/issue27850#msg275073
CVE-2016-1000110
  3.3 backported, no release yet
CVE-2016-0772
  3.3 needs backport <====
Issue #26657
  3.3 and 3.4 need backport <====

Maybe a 3.3 release may be needed as well.

Victor


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