[Bug 1898078] Re: FIPS OpenSSL crashes Python2.7 hashlib when using MD5

[Joy Latten]

This has been fixed in bionic. Already fixed in xenial.

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Title:
  FIPS OpenSSL crashes Python2.7 hashlib when using MD5

Status in python2.7 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in python2.7 source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in python2.7 source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in python2.7 source package in Focal:
  New
Status in python2.7 source package in Groovy:
  New

Bug description:
  LP #1835135 was fixed in python2.7. However, when python2.7 was
  updated to current verion, the fix was not included. It needs to be
  included again into current version of python2.7 to prevent FIPS
  issues when using fips openssl with python's hashlib. This is only a
  problem in latest python2.7 versions in xenial, bionic, focal, and
  groovy. python3 versions do not have this problem in these releases.

  The fix was a backport of
  https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/1777/commits/5e3e3568d27b99dabe44b8aa6283dc76d70f2dae

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