[GHSA-jwv3-5hgf-82ww] python-cryptography: Duplicate self-signed intermediates can cause exponential path-building

[frenzymadness]

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If I'm not mistaken, the vulnerability had been introduced in pyca/cryptography@3763aa79b where the initial X.509 path validation implementation had been implemented. And that commit was released in version 42.0.0 so the vulnerable range should be updated.

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