USN-8776-1: python-cryptography vulnerabilities
Ubuntu patches python-cryptography flaws including a PKCS#7 timing side-channel (CVE-2026-69247) that could allow key recovery.
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cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In affected versions `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol, but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated, thus violating fundamental rules of Python and resulting in corrupted output. This now correctly raises an exception. This issue has been present since `update_into` was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.
Ubuntu patches python-cryptography flaws including a PKCS#7 timing side-channel (CVE-2026-69247) that could allow key recovery.
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