diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/CVE-2014-1912.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/CVE-2014-1912.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c69efd17f964..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/CVE-2014-1912.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-# Edited from Mercurial patch: deleted the NEWS hunk, since it didn't apply cleanly.
-# It added the following line to NEWS:
-# - Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.
-
-
-# HG changeset patch
-# User Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
-# Date 1389671978 18000
-# Node ID 9c56217e5c793685eeaf0ee224848c402bdf1e4c
-# Parent  2b5cd6d4d149dea6c6941b7e07ada248b29fc9f6
-complain when nbytes > buflen to fix possible buffer overflow (closes #20246)
-
-diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
---- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
-+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
-@@ -1968,6 +1968,14 @@ class BufferIOTest(SocketConnectedTest):
- 
-     _testRecvFromIntoMemoryview = _testRecvFromIntoArray
- 
-+    def testRecvFromIntoSmallBuffer(self):
-+        # See issue #20246.
-+        buf = bytearray(8)
-+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.cli_conn.recvfrom_into, buf, 1024)
-+
-+    def _testRecvFromIntoSmallBuffer(self):
-+        self.serv_conn.send(MSG*2048)
-+
- 
- TIPC_STYPE = 2000
- TIPC_LOWER = 200
-diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
---- a/Misc/ACKS
-+++ b/Misc/ACKS
-@@ -1020,6 +1020,7 @@ Eric V. Smith
- Christopher Smith
- Gregory P. Smith
- Roy Smith
-+Ryan Smith-Roberts
- Rafal Smotrzyk
- Dirk Soede
- Paul Sokolovsky
-diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
---- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
-+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
-@@ -2598,6 +2598,11 @@ sock_recvfrom_into(PySocketSockObject *s
-     if (recvlen == 0) {
-         /* If nbytes was not specified, use the buffer's length */
-         recvlen = buflen;
-+    } else if (recvlen > buflen) {
-+        PyBuffer_Release(&pbuf);
-+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
-+                        "nbytes is greater than the length of the buffer");
-+        return NULL;
-     }
- 
-     readlen = sock_recvfrom_guts(s, buf, recvlen, flags, &addr);
-
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/default.nix
index c684266f8225..9222f9fc4e11 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ with stdenv.lib;
 
 let
   majorVersion = "3.2";
-  version = "${majorVersion}.5";
+  version = "${majorVersion}.6";
 
   buildInputs = filter (p: p != null) [
     zlib bzip2 gdbm sqlite db readline ncurses openssl tcl tk libX11 xproto
@@ -30,16 +30,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   inherit majorVersion version;
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/${version}/Python-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0pxs234g08v3lar09lvzxw4vqdpwkbqmvkv894j2w7aklskcjd6v";
+    url = "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/${version}/Python-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1p3vvvh3qw8avq959hdl6bq5d6r7mbhrnigqzgx6mllzh40va4hx";
   };
 
-  patches =
-    [
-      # See http://bugs.python.org/issue20246
-      ./CVE-2014-1912.patch
-    ];
-
   NIX_LDFLAGS = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isLinux "-lgcc_s";
 
   preConfigure = ''