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[Brian Murray <1835135@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

eoan has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that
release

** Changed in: python2.7 (Ubuntu Eoan)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  FIPS OpenSSL crashes Python2 hashlib

Status in python2.7 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in python3.5 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in python2.7 source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in python3.5 source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in python2.7 source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in python3.5 source package in Bionic:
  Invalid
Status in python2.7 source package in Cosmic:
  Won't Fix
Status in python3.5 source package in Cosmic:
  Invalid
Status in python2.7 source package in Disco:
  Fix Released
Status in python3.5 source package in Disco:
  Invalid
Status in python2.7 source package in Eoan:
  Won't Fix
Status in python3.5 source package in Eoan:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  If Ubuntu/Canonical's FIPS-compliant OpenSSL is initialized with
  SSL_library_init, then Python2's hashlib bindings for MD5 can trigger
  a SIGSEGV via a NULL pointer dereference (if calling the .update
  method) or a SIGABRT (if passing input to the constructor or passing
  no input and invoking the .final method). This happens if, for
  example, PyOpenSSL is imported before hashlib.

  Canonical's FIPS patches for OpenSSL introduce some odd behavior that
  arguably should be revisited, but the (TL;DR) core bug is that Python2
  hashlib doesn't properly check the return value of EVP_DigestInit,
  preventing hashlib from falling back to it's internal MD5
  implementation and instead setting things up for use of the MD5
  context to trigger SIGSEGV or SIGABRT.

  Python3 correctly checks the return value, so the fix is to backport
  the relevant code into Python2 (see
  python2.7-2.7.12/Modules/_hashopenssl.c).

  See attached good.py and bad.py files which exhibit the import order-
  dependent crashing issue. See attached fips-md5-python-init-bug.c
  which shows the FIPS OpenSSL behaviors that conditionally tickle the
  Python2 bug. The C file also contains a much more detailed description
  of the Python2 bug and other behavior which I'd rather not repeat
  here.

  I discovered this bug investigating an issue with the third-party apt-
  boto-s3 package. See https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/2021

  Note that this bug effects Splunk, Inc, which has a corporate Ubuntu
  Advantage license. My login account is attached to a different,
  single-seat license.

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