Oracle Linux: CVE-2023-23931: ELSA-2023-6615: python-cryptography security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

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.
A vulnerability was found in python-cryptography. In affected versions, `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol but provide only immutable buffers. This issue allows immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated, thus violating the fundamental rules of Python, resulting in corrupted output.