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python2Packages.cryptography: mark insecure, CVE-2020-25659#104726

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@jonringer jonringer commented Nov 24, 2020

Motivation for this change

closes: #101964

$ nix-build -A pythonPackages.cryptography
error: Package ‘python2.7-cryptography-2.9.2’ in /home/jon/projects/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/python-modules/cryptography/2.9.nix:60 is marked as insecure, refusing to evaluate.


Known issues:
 - CVE-2020-25659
 - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hggm-jpg3-v476

You can install it anyway by whitelisting this package, using the
following methods:
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Nice! Good cleanup effort on #101964 :)

@ofborg ofborg bot added 6.topic: python Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin. 10.rebuild-linux: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Linux. labels Nov 24, 2020
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