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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3fa97b8589c551e70ec935e7f39d56c3c5d5ed7e
commit: 3fa97b8589c551e70ec935e7f39d56c3c5d5ed7e
branch: 3.11
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-08-15T08:37:51-07:00
summary:

gh-95231: Disable md5 & crypt modules if FIPS is enabled (GH-94742)


If kernel fips is enabled, we get permission error upon doing
`import crypt`. So, if kernel fips is enabled, disable the
unallowed hashing methods.

Python 3.9.1 (default, May 10 2022, 11:36:26)
[GCC 10.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import crypt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/crypt.py", line 117, in <module>
_add_method('MD5', '1', 8, 34)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/crypt.py", line 94, in _add_method
result = crypt('', salt)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/crypt.py", line 82, in crypt
return _crypt.crypt(word, salt)
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

Signed-off-by: Shreenidhi Shedi <sshedi@vmware.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2fa03b1b0708d5d74630c351ec9abd2aac7550da)

Co-authored-by: Shreenidhi Shedi <53473811+sshedi@users.noreply.github.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-25-15-45-06.gh-issue-95231.i807-g.rst
M Lib/crypt.py

diff --git a/Lib/crypt.py b/Lib/crypt.py
index 46c3de8474bf..de4a14a38847 100644
--- a/Lib/crypt.py
+++ b/Lib/crypt.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def _add_method(name, *args, rounds=None):
result = crypt('', salt)
except OSError as e:
# Not all libc libraries support all encryption methods.
- if e.errno == errno.EINVAL:
+ if e.errno in {errno.EINVAL, errno.EPERM, errno.ENOSYS}:
return False
raise
if result and len(result) == method.total_size:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-25-15-45-06.gh-issue-95231.i807-g.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-25-15-45-06.gh-issue-95231.i807-g.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aa53f2938bc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-25-15-45-06.gh-issue-95231.i807-g.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fail gracefully if :data:`~errno.EPERM` or :data:`~errno.ENOSYS` is raised when loading
+:mod:`crypt` methods. This may happen when trying to load ``MD5`` on a Linux kernel
+with :abbr:`FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard)` enabled.

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