From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:28:30 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Backport disabling of SSLv3 in ssl._create_stdlib_context() (issue #22638).
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.9rc1~24
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95b616480e7c17d85c2c3623bd2f6be51fd42139;p=python

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).
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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