5 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
7 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
8 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
9 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
12 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
13 the "no-shared" Configure option.
16 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
17 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
21 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
22 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
23 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
24 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
25 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
26 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
27 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
28 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
32 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
33 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
34 enabled with '--debug' builds.
35 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
37 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
38 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
39 these have been added.
42 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
43 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
44 functions for managing these have been added.
47 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
48 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
49 these have been added.
52 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
53 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
57 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
60 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
63 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
64 it is always safe to #include a header now.
67 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
70 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
73 *) Add support for HKDF.
76 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
79 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
80 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
81 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
82 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
83 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
84 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
85 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
88 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
89 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
90 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
93 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
94 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
95 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
96 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
97 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
98 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
99 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
101 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
102 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
105 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
108 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
109 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
110 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
111 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
112 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
113 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
117 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
118 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
121 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
122 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
123 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
126 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
127 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
128 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
129 implemented by other servers.
132 *) Add X25519 support.
133 Integrate support for X25519 into EC library. This includes support
134 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
135 draft-josefsson-pkix-newcurves-01: specifically X25519 uses the
136 OID from that draft, encodes public keys using little endian
137 format in the ECPoint structure and private keys using
138 little endian form in the privateKey field of the ECPrivateKey
139 structure. TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-06
142 Note: the current version supports key generation, public and
143 private key encoding and ECDH key agreement using the EC API.
144 Low level point operations such as EC_POINT_add(), EC_POINT_mul()
148 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
149 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
150 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
151 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
152 seed, even if the seed is configured.
154 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
155 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
156 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
157 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
158 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
159 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
160 that of a valid user.
163 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
164 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
165 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
166 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
168 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
169 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
171 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
172 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
173 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
174 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
176 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
177 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
181 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
182 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
183 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
184 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
185 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
186 of how OpenSSL was configured.
188 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
189 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
190 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
193 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
196 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
197 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
198 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
202 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
203 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
204 old #define's might need to be updated.
205 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
207 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
210 *) New "unified" build system
212 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
213 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
215 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
216 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
217 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
219 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
220 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
221 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
222 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
225 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
228 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
229 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
230 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
231 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
234 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
235 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
237 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
238 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
239 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
240 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
241 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
242 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
243 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
244 have been adapted accordingly.
247 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
251 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
252 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
253 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
254 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
257 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
258 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
259 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
263 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
264 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
267 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
268 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
269 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
271 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
272 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
273 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
275 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
276 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
278 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
279 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
280 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
281 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
284 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
285 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
286 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
287 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
288 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
292 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
293 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
294 straightforward and less interdependent.
296 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
297 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
298 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
300 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
301 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
302 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
304 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
305 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
306 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
307 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
309 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
310 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
313 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
314 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
315 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
316 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
320 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
322 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
324 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
325 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
326 before trying to build now.*
329 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
333 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
335 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
336 the application's responsibility. The application provides
337 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
338 used to authenticate the peer.
340 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
341 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
342 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
343 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
344 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
347 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
348 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
349 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
350 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
351 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
352 or the 1.1.0 releases.
354 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
355 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
356 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
357 support for the deprecated features from the library and
358 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
359 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
360 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
361 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
364 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
365 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
366 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
367 compile with later releases.
369 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
370 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
371 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
372 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
373 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
376 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
377 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
378 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
379 MaxProtcol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
380 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
381 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
382 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
383 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
386 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
389 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
390 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
391 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
394 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
395 include the ec.h header file instead.
398 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
399 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
400 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
403 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
404 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
407 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
408 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
410 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
411 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
412 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
415 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
416 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
417 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
418 an already created structure.
419 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
420 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
421 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
422 for deprecated builds.
425 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
426 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
427 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
428 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
429 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
430 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
431 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
434 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
435 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
436 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
437 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
440 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
441 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
444 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
445 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
448 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
449 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
450 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
451 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
452 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
453 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
454 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
458 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
459 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
460 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
463 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
466 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
468 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
470 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
472 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
473 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
481 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
482 set a mandatory field to NULL.
484 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
485 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
486 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
490 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
493 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
494 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
495 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
496 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
499 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
500 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
501 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
502 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
505 *) Fix no-stdio build.
506 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
507 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
509 *) New testing framework
510 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
511 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
512 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
513 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
514 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
515 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
517 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
519 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
520 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
524 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
525 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
526 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
527 and others were changed. All are now documented.
530 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
532 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
534 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
535 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
537 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
538 original RSA_PSK patch.
541 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
542 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
543 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
544 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
547 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
548 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
551 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
552 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
553 hasn't been working properly for a while.
556 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
557 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
558 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
559 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
563 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
564 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
565 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
566 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
569 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
570 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
571 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
572 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
573 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
574 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
577 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
578 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
579 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
580 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
581 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
582 header file has been removed.
585 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
586 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
589 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
590 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
591 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
593 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
597 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
600 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
604 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
607 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
608 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
609 initial patch which was a great help during development.
612 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
613 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
614 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
615 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
618 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
619 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
620 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
621 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
622 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
623 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
626 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
627 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
628 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
629 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
632 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
633 compatible client hello.
636 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
637 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
638 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
640 *) CA.sh has been removmed; use CA.pl instead.
643 *) Removed old DES API.
646 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
652 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
657 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
660 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
661 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
662 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
663 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
664 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
665 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
666 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
667 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
668 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
669 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
670 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
673 *) Cleaned up dead code
674 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
677 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
678 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
679 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
682 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
683 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
684 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
687 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
688 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
689 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
691 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
692 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
693 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
695 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
697 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
699 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
700 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
701 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
703 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
704 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
706 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
707 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
710 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
711 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
712 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
713 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
715 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
716 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
717 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
718 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
720 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
721 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
722 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
724 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
725 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
728 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
730 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
731 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
733 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
734 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
736 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
739 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
743 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
744 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
745 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
746 algorithms and include tests cases.
749 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
753 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
754 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
757 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
758 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
760 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
761 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
764 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
765 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
769 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
770 sign or verify all in one operation.
773 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
774 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
775 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
778 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
781 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
784 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
785 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
786 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
787 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
788 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
791 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
795 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
796 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
797 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
800 *) Add support for Dual EC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test
801 and POST to handle Dual EC cases.
804 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
807 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
808 POST to handle HMAC cases.
811 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
812 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
815 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
816 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
817 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
820 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
821 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
822 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
823 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
824 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
825 requested amount of entropy.
828 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
829 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
832 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
833 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
834 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
838 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
839 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
840 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
843 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
844 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
845 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
846 will never use XTS mode.
849 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
850 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
851 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
852 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
853 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
854 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
857 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
858 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
859 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
860 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
863 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
864 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
865 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
868 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
871 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
874 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
875 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
878 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
879 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
882 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
883 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
886 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
887 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
888 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
889 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
890 and rename any affected symbols.
893 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
894 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
897 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
898 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
899 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
902 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
905 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
906 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
907 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
910 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
911 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
914 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
915 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
916 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
917 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
918 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
919 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
923 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
924 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
925 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
926 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
927 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
928 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
929 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
930 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
933 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
934 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
937 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
939 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
940 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
942 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
943 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
944 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
945 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
946 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
947 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
949 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
950 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
951 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
953 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
955 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
959 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
960 Add CMAC pkey methods.
963 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
964 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
965 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
968 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
969 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
970 multi-process servers.
973 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
974 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
975 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
976 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
977 RAND_METHOD structure.
980 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
981 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
982 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
983 whose return value is often ignored.
986 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
987 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
988 validated when establishing a connection.
989 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
991 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
993 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
994 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
995 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
998 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
999 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
1000 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
1001 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
1002 will need to explicitly call either of:
1004 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1006 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1008 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
1009 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
1010 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
1011 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
1012 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
1016 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
1018 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
1019 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
1020 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
1023 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
1028 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
1030 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
1032 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1033 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
1034 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
1037 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1038 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1039 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1040 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1041 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1042 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1043 that of a valid user.
1047 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
1049 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
1050 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
1051 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
1052 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
1053 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
1054 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
1055 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
1056 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
1057 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
1058 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
1059 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
1061 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
1062 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
1063 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
1064 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
1065 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
1067 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
1071 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
1073 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
1074 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
1075 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
1077 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
1078 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
1079 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
1080 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
1081 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
1084 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
1085 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
1086 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
1087 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
1088 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
1089 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
1090 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
1091 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
1092 as command line arguments.
1094 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
1095 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
1096 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
1098 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
1102 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
1104 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
1105 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
1106 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
1107 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
1108 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
1110 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
1111 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
1112 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
1113 http://cachebleed.info.
1117 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
1118 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
1119 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
1120 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
1123 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
1124 *) DH small subgroups
1126 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
1127 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
1128 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
1129 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
1130 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
1131 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
1132 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
1133 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
1134 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
1135 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
1137 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
1138 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
1139 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
1140 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
1141 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
1143 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
1144 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
1145 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
1146 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
1148 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
1149 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
1151 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
1155 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
1157 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
1158 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
1159 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
1162 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
1163 and Sebastian Schinzel.
1167 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
1169 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
1171 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
1172 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
1173 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
1174 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
1175 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
1176 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
1177 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
1178 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
1179 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
1180 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
1181 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
1182 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
1184 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
1188 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
1190 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1191 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1192 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
1193 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
1194 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
1195 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
1196 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
1199 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
1203 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
1205 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
1206 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
1207 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
1208 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
1210 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
1215 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1216 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1217 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1218 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1221 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1223 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1225 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
1227 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
1229 During certificate verfification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
1230 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
1231 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
1232 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
1233 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
1234 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
1236 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
1240 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
1242 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
1243 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
1247 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
1249 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
1251 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
1252 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
1255 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
1256 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
1257 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
1258 client authentication enabled.
1260 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
1264 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
1266 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
1267 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
1268 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
1271 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
1272 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
1273 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
1274 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
1275 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
1278 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
1279 independently by Hanno Böck.
1283 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
1285 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
1286 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
1287 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1289 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
1290 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
1291 servers are not affected.
1293 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1297 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
1299 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
1300 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
1301 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
1303 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
1307 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
1309 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
1310 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
1311 a double free of the ticket data.
1315 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
1316 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
1317 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
1320 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
1322 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
1324 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
1325 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
1326 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
1328 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
1331 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
1333 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
1335 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
1336 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
1337 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
1338 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
1339 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
1340 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
1341 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
1342 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
1344 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
1348 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
1350 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
1351 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
1352 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
1353 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
1354 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
1355 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
1356 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
1357 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
1360 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
1364 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
1366 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
1367 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
1368 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
1369 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1370 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1371 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1375 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
1377 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1378 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1379 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
1380 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
1381 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1382 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1383 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1385 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
1389 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
1391 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
1392 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
1393 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
1395 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
1396 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
1397 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
1402 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
1404 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
1405 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
1406 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1408 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
1409 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
1410 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
1412 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1416 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
1418 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
1419 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
1420 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
1422 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
1423 (OpenSSL development team).
1427 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
1429 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
1430 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
1431 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
1435 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
1437 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
1438 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
1439 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
1440 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
1441 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
1442 SSL_client_methodv23)
1443 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
1444 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
1446 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
1447 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
1448 output may be predictable.
1450 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
1451 succeed on an unpatched platform:
1453 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
1457 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
1459 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
1460 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
1461 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
1462 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
1463 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
1464 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
1466 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
1471 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
1473 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
1474 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
1476 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
1480 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
1483 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
1485 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
1486 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
1487 So far those who have to target multiple plaforms would compromise
1488 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
1489 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
1490 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
1493 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
1494 (other platforms pending).
1495 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
1497 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
1498 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
1501 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
1502 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
1503 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
1506 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
1507 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
1508 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
1509 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
1512 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
1513 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
1515 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
1516 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
1517 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
1518 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
1519 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
1521 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
1524 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
1525 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
1526 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
1527 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
1529 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
1531 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
1533 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
1534 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
1535 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
1538 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
1541 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
1542 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
1543 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
1546 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1547 this fixes a limiation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1550 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1551 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1554 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1555 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1556 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1557 algorithms and include tests cases.
1560 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
1562 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
1564 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
1565 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
1568 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
1569 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
1570 summary of the connection parameters.
1573 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
1574 of connection parameters.
1577 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
1578 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
1580 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
1581 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
1584 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
1587 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
1588 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
1591 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
1592 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
1595 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
1599 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
1600 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
1601 CRLs using the OCSP API.
1604 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
1607 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
1608 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
1611 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
1612 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
1613 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
1617 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
1618 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
1621 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
1625 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
1629 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
1630 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
1631 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
1632 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
1635 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
1636 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
1639 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
1640 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
1641 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
1645 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
1646 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
1647 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
1648 use the certificate.
1651 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
1654 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
1655 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
1656 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distint stores for certificate chain
1657 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
1658 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returing
1659 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
1660 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
1662 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
1663 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
1667 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
1668 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
1669 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
1672 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
1673 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
1674 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
1675 supported signature algorithms.
1678 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
1681 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
1682 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
1683 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
1684 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
1685 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
1686 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
1687 certificate and specify the whole chain.
1690 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
1691 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
1692 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
1693 to have similar checks in it.
1695 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
1696 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
1697 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
1698 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
1699 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
1702 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
1703 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
1704 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
1705 shared signature algorithms.
1708 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
1709 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
1713 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
1714 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
1715 it couldn't be removed.
1718 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
1719 verification. New verify options supporting checking in opensl utility.
1722 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
1723 functions. Add manual page.
1724 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
1726 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
1727 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
1731 *) Fix OCSP checking.
1732 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
1734 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
1735 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
1736 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
1737 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
1741 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
1742 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
1745 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
1746 platform support for Linux and Android.
1749 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
1752 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1753 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
1754 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
1755 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
1756 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
1759 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
1760 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
1761 the new parameter format automatically.
1764 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
1765 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
1768 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
1771 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
1772 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
1773 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
1774 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
1775 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
1778 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
1779 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
1780 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
1781 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
1782 to set list of supported curves.
1785 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
1786 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
1787 to print out received values.
1790 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
1791 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
1792 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
1795 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
1796 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
1799 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
1800 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
1803 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
1807 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
1809 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
1810 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
1811 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
1813 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
1815 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
1816 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
1818 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
1820 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
1821 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
1822 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
1823 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
1827 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
1828 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
1829 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
1830 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
1831 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
1832 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
1836 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
1837 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
1838 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
1839 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
1843 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
1846 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
1847 reporting this issue.
1851 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
1852 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
1853 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
1854 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
1855 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
1856 INRIA or reporting this issue.
1860 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
1861 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
1862 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
1863 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
1864 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
1865 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
1866 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
1871 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
1872 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
1874 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
1875 and can vary with the CTX.
1878 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
1880 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
1881 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
1882 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
1883 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
1884 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
1886 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
1888 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
1889 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
1891 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
1893 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
1894 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
1895 errors for some broken certificates.
1897 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
1899 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
1901 Reencode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
1902 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
1904 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
1905 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
1906 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
1907 (negative or with leading zeroes).
1909 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
1910 of the OpenSSL core team.
1915 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
1916 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
1917 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
1918 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
1919 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
1920 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
1921 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
1922 the OpenSSL core team.
1926 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
1927 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
1928 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
1929 sanity and breaks all known clients.
1930 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
1932 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
1933 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
1934 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
1937 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
1938 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
1939 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
1940 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
1941 announced in the initial ServerHello.
1943 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
1944 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
1945 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
1948 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
1950 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
1952 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
1953 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
1954 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
1955 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
1956 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
1957 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
1958 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
1960 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
1964 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
1966 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
1967 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
1968 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
1969 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
1970 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
1975 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
1977 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
1978 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
1979 configured to send them.
1981 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
1983 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
1984 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
1985 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
1987 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1989 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
1991 Reencode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
1992 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
1993 DigestInfo structures.
1995 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
1999 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
2001 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
2002 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
2003 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
2005 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
2006 Group for discovering this issue.
2010 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
2011 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
2012 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
2013 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
2014 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
2016 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
2017 researching this issue.
2021 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
2022 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
2023 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
2024 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
2026 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
2031 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
2032 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2033 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2037 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
2038 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
2039 Denial of Service attack.
2040 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2044 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
2045 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
2046 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2047 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
2052 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
2053 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
2054 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
2056 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
2061 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
2062 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
2063 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
2064 Denial of Service attack.
2066 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
2067 discovering and researching this issue.
2071 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
2072 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
2073 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
2074 output to the attacker.
2076 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
2078 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
2080 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2081 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2082 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2085 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
2087 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
2088 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
2089 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
2091 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
2092 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
2093 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
2095 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
2096 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
2099 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
2101 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
2103 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
2104 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
2105 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
2106 code on a vulnerable client or server.
2108 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
2109 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
2111 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
2112 are subject to a denial of service attack.
2114 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
2115 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
2116 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
2118 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
2120 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2122 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
2123 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
2124 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2126 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
2127 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2129 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
2131 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
2132 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
2135 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
2136 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
2137 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
2138 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2140 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
2141 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
2142 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
2143 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
2145 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
2146 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
2147 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
2149 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
2151 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
2152 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
2153 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
2154 is at least 512 bytes long.
2156 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
2158 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
2160 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
2161 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
2162 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
2165 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
2166 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
2167 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
2170 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
2171 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
2172 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
2173 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
2174 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
2175 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
2176 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
2178 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
2180 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
2181 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
2182 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2184 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
2186 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
2188 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
2189 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
2190 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
2192 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2193 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2194 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
2195 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
2197 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2199 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
2200 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
2201 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
2202 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
2203 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
2207 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
2208 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
2211 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
2212 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2214 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
2215 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
2216 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
2217 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
2218 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
2220 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
2223 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
2227 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
2229 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
2230 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
2232 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
2233 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
2237 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
2238 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
2241 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
2245 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
2247 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
2248 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
2249 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
2250 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disablng
2251 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
2252 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
2253 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
2254 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
2255 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
2256 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
2259 *) In order to ensure interoperabilty SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
2260 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
2261 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
2262 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
2263 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
2264 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
2268 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
2270 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
2271 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
2272 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
2274 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
2275 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
2277 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
2279 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
2282 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
2283 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
2285 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
2286 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
2287 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
2288 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
2289 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
2290 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
2291 Most broken servers should now work.
2292 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
2293 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
2296 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
2299 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
2301 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
2302 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
2305 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
2306 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
2307 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
2308 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
2309 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
2312 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
2313 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
2314 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
2315 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
2316 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
2319 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
2320 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2322 *) Add support for SCTP.
2323 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2325 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2326 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2328 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
2330 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
2331 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
2332 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
2333 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
2334 - s390x: z196 support;
2335 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
2339 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
2340 (removal of unnecessary code)
2341 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
2343 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
2346 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
2349 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
2350 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
2351 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
2353 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2355 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
2356 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
2357 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
2358 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
2359 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
2361 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
2362 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
2363 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
2365 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
2366 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
2367 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
2369 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
2370 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
2372 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2374 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
2375 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
2376 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
2379 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
2380 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
2384 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
2385 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
2386 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
2389 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
2390 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
2391 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
2392 the appropriate parameters.
2395 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
2396 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
2397 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
2398 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
2399 against a number of sample certificates.
2402 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
2403 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
2405 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
2406 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
2408 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
2409 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
2413 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
2417 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
2418 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
2419 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
2420 password based CMS).
2423 *) Session-handling fixes:
2424 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
2425 but also support Session Tickets.
2426 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
2427 presented a ticket with an expired session.
2428 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
2429 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
2430 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
2431 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2433 *) Fix PSK session representation.
2436 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
2438 This work was sponsored by Intel.
2441 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
2442 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
2443 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
2444 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
2445 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
2448 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
2449 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
2452 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
2453 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
2454 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
2457 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
2458 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
2459 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
2460 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
2463 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
2464 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
2465 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
2468 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
2469 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
2471 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
2474 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
2475 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
2478 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2481 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
2482 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
2485 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
2486 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
2489 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
2492 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
2493 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
2494 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
2497 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2500 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2503 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
2504 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
2507 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
2508 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
2509 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
2512 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
2515 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
2519 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
2520 FIPS modules versions.
2523 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
2524 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
2525 until after the certificate request message is received.
2528 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
2529 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
2530 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
2531 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
2534 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
2535 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
2536 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
2537 support yet and no support for client certificates.
2540 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
2541 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
2542 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
2543 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
2544 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
2545 and version checking.
2548 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
2549 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
2550 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
2551 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
2555 [Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
2557 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
2560 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
2561 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
2562 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2564 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
2565 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
2566 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
2569 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
2570 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
2572 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
2573 a few changes are required:
2575 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
2576 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
2577 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
2578 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
2579 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
2582 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
2584 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
2585 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
2586 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
2587 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
2588 old behaviour can be reenabled in the CMS code by setting the
2589 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
2590 an MMA defence is not necessary.
2591 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
2592 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
2595 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
2596 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
2597 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
2600 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
2602 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
2603 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
2604 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
2605 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
2608 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
2610 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
2611 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
2612 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
2613 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
2614 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
2615 paper describing this attack can be found at:
2616 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
2617 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2618 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2619 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
2620 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
2621 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
2622 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
2624 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
2626 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2628 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
2629 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
2630 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
2631 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2633 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
2634 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
2636 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
2637 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
2638 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
2639 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
2641 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2642 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2644 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
2645 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2647 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
2648 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2650 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
2651 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
2652 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2654 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
2655 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
2656 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
2658 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
2659 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
2660 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
2661 the last update always remained unused).
2662 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2664 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
2665 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
2667 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
2669 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
2670 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
2671 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
2673 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
2674 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
2675 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2677 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
2680 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
2681 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
2682 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
2685 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
2686 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
2688 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
2690 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
2692 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
2694 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
2695 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2697 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
2698 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
2702 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
2704 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
2705 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
2706 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
2709 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
2710 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
2711 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
2714 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
2716 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
2717 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
2718 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
2721 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
2725 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
2727 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
2729 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
2731 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
2733 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
2734 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
2735 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
2738 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
2741 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
2742 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
2743 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
2745 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
2746 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
2747 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
2750 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
2751 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
2754 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
2755 some responders need this.
2758 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
2760 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
2762 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
2763 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
2764 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
2767 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
2770 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
2771 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
2772 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
2773 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
2774 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
2775 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
2776 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
2777 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
2780 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
2781 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
2782 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
2783 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
2785 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
2786 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
2788 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
2792 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
2793 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
2794 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
2795 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
2796 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
2797 attempting to work them out.
2800 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
2801 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
2802 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
2803 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
2806 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
2807 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
2808 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
2809 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
2810 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
2813 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
2814 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
2821 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
2823 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
2827 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
2828 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
2830 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
2831 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
2833 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
2834 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
2835 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
2836 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
2837 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
2840 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
2841 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
2842 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
2845 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
2846 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
2849 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
2850 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
2852 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
2853 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
2856 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
2859 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
2860 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
2861 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
2865 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
2866 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
2867 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
2868 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
2869 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
2870 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
2873 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
2874 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
2876 This work was sponsored by Google.
2879 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
2880 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
2881 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
2882 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
2883 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
2884 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications wont
2885 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
2888 This work was sponsored by Google.
2891 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
2893 This work was sponsored by Google.
2896 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
2897 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
2898 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
2899 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
2901 This work was sponsored by Google.
2904 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
2905 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
2906 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
2907 CRL functionality in future.
2909 This work was sponsored by Google.
2912 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
2914 This work was sponsored by Google.
2917 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
2918 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
2920 This work was sponsored by Google.
2923 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
2924 and URI types are currently supported.
2926 This work was sponsored by Google.
2929 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
2930 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
2931 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
2932 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
2933 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
2934 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
2935 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
2936 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
2938 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
2939 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
2940 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
2942 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
2943 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
2944 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
2945 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
2947 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
2948 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
2949 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
2950 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
2951 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
2952 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
2953 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
2954 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
2956 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
2958 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
2959 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
2960 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
2962 This work was sponsored by Google.
2965 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
2968 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
2969 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
2970 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
2973 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
2974 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
2977 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
2978 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
2981 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
2982 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
2983 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
2984 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
2985 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
2986 content types and variants.
2989 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
2992 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
2993 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
2994 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
2995 files from the associated perl scripts.
2998 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
2999 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
3000 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3002 *) s390x assembler pack.
3005 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
3009 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
3010 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
3011 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
3012 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
3013 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
3014 to use. For example, specify an option
3016 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
3018 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
3019 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
3020 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
3021 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
3022 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
3023 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
3025 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
3026 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
3027 an interal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
3028 return non-zero for success.
3030 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
3033 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
3034 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
3038 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
3041 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
3042 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
3043 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
3044 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
3045 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
3046 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
3047 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
3048 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
3049 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
3051 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
3052 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
3053 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
3054 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
3055 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
3056 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
3058 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
3059 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
3060 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
3061 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
3062 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
3063 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
3067 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
3070 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3072 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
3073 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
3074 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
3077 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
3078 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
3081 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
3082 protection in servers so again support should be possible
3083 with no application modification.
3085 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
3086 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
3088 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
3089 or server extensions to be examined.
3091 This work was sponsored by Google.
3094 *) Final changes to avoid use of pointer pointer casts in OpenSSL.
3095 OpenSSL should now compile cleanly on gcc 4.2
3096 [Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>, Steve Henson]
3098 *) Update SSL library to use new EVP_PKEY MAC API. Include generic MAC
3099 support including streaming MAC support: this is required for GOST
3100 ciphersuite support.
3101 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>, Steve Henson]
3103 *) Add option -stream to use PKCS#7 streaming in smime utility. New
3104 function i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream() and PEM_write_PKCS7_bio_stream()
3105 to output in BER and PEM format.
3108 *) Experimental support for use of HMAC via EVP_PKEY interface. This
3109 allows HMAC to be handled via the EVP_DigestSign*() interface. The
3110 EVP_PKEY "key" in this case is the HMAC key, potentially allowing
3111 ENGINE support for HMAC keys which are unextractable. New -mac and
3112 -macopt options to dgst utility.
3115 *) New option -sigopt to dgst utility. Update dgst to use
3116 EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}*. These two changes make it possible to use
3117 alternative signing parameters such as X9.31 or PSS in the dgst
3121 *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
3122 the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
3123 ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
3124 removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
3125 the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
3126 that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
3127 in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
3128 than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
3131 This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
3132 the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
3133 order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
3134 most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
3136 Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
3137 funcionality) such that between otherwise identical
3138 cihpersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
3142 *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
3143 arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
3144 to process the rule string. Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
3145 (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
3146 remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
3147 This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
3148 in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
3149 that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
3150 [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
3152 *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
3153 processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
3154 "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
3155 "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
3156 (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
3157 away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
3158 change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
3159 affect applications.) This give us more bits for each of these
3160 categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
3161 AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
3162 and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
3165 Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
3166 0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
3167 out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
3169 With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
3170 so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
3174 *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
3175 Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
3176 larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
3179 *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
3180 it yet and it is largely untested.
3183 *) Add support for the ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
3186 *) Initial incomplete changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL
3187 some compilers (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use. Safestack is
3188 reimplemented. Update ASN1 to avoid use of legacy functions.
3191 *) Win32/64 targets are linked with Winsock2.
3194 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
3195 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
3196 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
3197 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
3200 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
3201 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
3202 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
3203 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
3204 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
3207 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
3208 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
3211 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
3212 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
3213 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
3214 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
3217 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
3218 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
3219 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
3220 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
3223 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
3224 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
3227 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
3228 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
3229 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
3230 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
3233 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
3234 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
3235 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
3238 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
3242 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
3243 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
3246 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
3247 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
3248 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
3252 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
3253 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
3254 to free up any added signature OIDs.
3257 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
3258 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
3259 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
3260 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
3263 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
3264 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
3265 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
3266 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
3267 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
3268 the array representation useful in a more general context.
3271 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
3272 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
3273 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
3274 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
3275 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
3277 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
3278 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
3279 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
3280 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
3281 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
3284 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
3285 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
3286 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
3287 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case:
3289 kECDHr - ECDH cert, signed with RSA
3290 kECDHe - ECDH cert, signed with ECDSA
3291 kECDH - ECDH cert (signed with either RSA or ECDSA)
3292 kEECDH - ephemeral ECDH
3293 ECDH - ECDH cert or ephemeral ECDH
3299 AECDH - anonymous ECDH
3300 EECDH - non-anonymous ephemeral ECDH (equivalent to "kEECDH:-AECDH")
3304 *) Add additional S/MIME capabilities for AES and GOST ciphers if supported.
3305 Use correct micalg parameters depending on digest(s) in signed message.
3308 *) Add engine support for EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. Add functions to process
3309 an ENGINE asn1 method. Support ENGINE lookups in the ASN1 code.
3312 *) Initial engine support for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. New functions to permit
3313 an engine to register a method. Add ENGINE lookups for methods and
3314 functional reference processing.
3317 *) New functions EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify)*. These are enchance versions of
3318 EVP_{Sign,Verify}* which allow an application to customise the signature
3322 *) New -resign option to smime utility. This adds one or more signers
3323 to an existing PKCS#7 signedData structure. Also -md option to use an
3324 alternative message digest algorithm for signing.
3327 *) Tidy up PKCS#7 routines and add new functions to make it easier to
3328 create PKCS7 structures containing multiple signers. Update smime
3329 application to support multiple signers.
3332 *) New -macalg option to pkcs12 utility to allow setting of an alternative
3336 *) Initial support for PKCS#5 v2.0 PRFs other than default SHA1 HMAC.
3337 Reorganize PBE internals to lookup from a static table using NIDs,
3338 add support for HMAC PBE OID translation. Add a EVP_CIPHER ctrl:
3339 EVP_CTRL_PBE_PRF_NID this allows a cipher to specify an alternative
3340 PRF which will be automatically used with PBES2.
3343 *) Replace the algorithm specific calls to generate keys in "req" with the
3347 *) Update PKCS#7 enveloped data routines to use new API. This is now
3348 supported by any public key method supporting the encrypt operation. A
3349 ctrl is added to allow the public key algorithm to examine or modify
3350 the PKCS#7 RecipientInfo structure if it needs to: for RSA this is
3354 *) Add a ctrl to asn1 method to allow a public key algorithm to express
3355 a default digest type to use. In most cases this will be SHA1 but some
3356 algorithms (such as GOST) need to specify an alternative digest. The
3357 return value indicates how strong the preference is 1 means optional and
3358 2 is mandatory (that is it is the only supported type). Modify
3359 ASN1_item_sign() to accept a NULL digest argument to indicate it should
3360 use the default md. Update openssl utilities to use the default digest
3361 type for signing if it is not explicitly indicated.
3364 *) Use OID cross reference table in ASN1_sign() and ASN1_verify(). New
3365 EVP_MD flag EVP_MD_FLAG_PKEY_METHOD_SIGNATURE. This uses the relevant
3366 signing method from the key type. This effectively removes the link
3367 between digests and public key types.
3370 *) Add an OID cross reference table and utility functions. Its purpose is to
3371 translate between signature OIDs such as SHA1WithrsaEncryption and SHA1,
3372 rsaEncryption. This will allow some of the algorithm specific hackery
3373 needed to use the correct OID to be removed.
3376 *) Remove algorithm specific dependencies when setting PKCS7_SIGNER_INFO
3377 structures for PKCS7_sign(). They are now set up by the relevant public
3381 *) Add provisional EC pkey method with support for ECDSA and ECDH.
3384 *) Add support for key derivation (agreement) in the API, DH method and
3388 *) Add DSA pkey method and DH pkey methods, extend DH ASN1 method to support
3389 public and private key formats. As a side effect these add additional
3390 command line functionality not previously available: DSA signatures can be
3391 generated and verified using pkeyutl and DH key support and generation in
3396 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
3398 *) New make target "install_html_docs" installs HTML renditions of the
3400 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
3402 *) New utility "genpkey" this is analogous to "genrsa" etc except it can
3403 generate keys for any algorithm. Extend and update EVP_PKEY_METHOD to
3404 support key and parameter generation and add initial key generation
3405 functionality for RSA.
3408 *) Add functions for main EVP_PKEY_method operations. The undocumented
3409 functions EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt} have been renamed to
3410 EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt}_old.
3413 *) Initial definitions for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. This will be a high level public
3414 key API, doesn't do much yet.
3417 *) New function EVP_PKEY_asn1_get0_info() to retrieve information about
3418 public key algorithms. New option to openssl utility:
3419 "list-public-key-algorithms" to print out info.
3422 *) Implement the Supported Elliptic Curves Extension for
3423 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
3426 *) Don't free up OIDs in OBJ_cleanup() if they are in use by EVP_MD or
3427 EVP_CIPHER structures to avoid later problems in EVP_cleanup().
3430 *) New utilities pkey and pkeyparam. These are similar to algorithm specific
3431 utilities such as rsa, dsa, dsaparam etc except they process any key
3435 *) Transfer public key printing routines to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. New
3436 functions EVP_PKEY_print_public(), EVP_PKEY_print_private(),
3437 EVP_PKEY_print_param() to print public key data from an EVP_PKEY
3441 *) Initial support for pluggable public key ASN1.
3442 De-spaghettify the public key ASN1 handling. Move public and private
3443 key ASN1 handling to a new EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD structure. Relocate
3444 algorithm specific handling to a single module within the relevant
3445 algorithm directory. Add functions to allow (near) opaque processing
3446 of public and private key structures.
3449 *) Implement the Supported Point Formats Extension for
3450 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
3453 *) Add initial support for RFC 4279 PSK TLS ciphersuites. Add members
3454 for the psk identity [hint] and the psk callback functions to the
3455 SSL_SESSION, SSL and SSL_CTX structure.
3458 PSK-RC4-SHA, PSK-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA, PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA,
3462 SSL_CTX_use_psk_identity_hint
3463 SSL_get_psk_identity_hint
3464 SSL_get_psk_identity
3465 SSL_use_psk_identity_hint
3467 [Mika Kousa and Pasi Eronen of Nokia Corporation]
3469 *) Add RFC 3161 compliant time stamp request creation, response generation
3470 and response verification functionality.
3471 [Zoltán Glózik <zglozik@opentsa.org>, The OpenTSA Project]
3473 *) Add initial support for TLS extensions, specifically for the server_name
3474 extension so far. The SSL_SESSION, SSL_CTX, and SSL data structures now
3475 have new members for a host name. The SSL data structure has an
3476 additional member SSL_CTX *initial_ctx so that new sessions can be
3477 stored in that context to allow for session resumption, even after the
3478 SSL has been switched to a new SSL_CTX in reaction to a client's
3479 server_name extension.
3481 New functions (subject to change):
3483 SSL_get_servername()
3484 SSL_get_servername_type()
3487 New CTRL codes and macros (subject to change):
3489 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_CB
3490 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback()
3491 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_ARG
3492 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg()
3493 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME - SSL_set_tlsext_host_name()
3495 openssl s_client has a new '-servername ...' option.
3497 openssl s_server has new options '-servername_host ...', '-cert2 ...',
3498 '-key2 ...', '-servername_fatal' (subject to change). This allows
3499 testing the HostName extension for a specific single host name ('-cert'
3500 and '-key' remain fallbacks for handshakes without HostName
3501 negotiation). If the unrecognized_name alert has to be sent, this by
3502 default is a warning; it becomes fatal with the '-servername_fatal'
3505 [Peter Sylvester, Remy Allais, Christophe Renou]
3507 *) Whirlpool hash implementation is added.
3510 *) BIGNUM code on 64-bit SPARCv9 targets is switched from bn(64,64) to
3511 bn(64,32). Because of instruction set limitations it doesn't have
3512 any negative impact on performance. This was done mostly in order
3513 to make it possible to share assembler modules, such as bn_mul_mont
3514 implementations, between 32- and 64-bit builds without hassle.
3517 *) Move code previously exiled into file crypto/ec/ec2_smpt.c
3518 to ec2_smpl.c, and no longer require the OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP
3522 *) New candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation, bn_mul_mont,
3523 dedicated Montgomery multiplication procedure, is introduced.
3524 BN_MONT_CTX is modified to allow bn_mul_mont to reach for higher
3525 "64-bit" performance on certain 32-bit targets.
3528 *) New option SSL_OP_NO_COMP to disable use of compression selectively
3529 in SSL structures. New SSL ctrl to set maximum send fragment size.
3530 Save memory by seeting the I/O buffer sizes dynamically instead of
3531 using the maximum available value.
3534 *) New option -V for 'openssl ciphers'. This prints the ciphersuite code
3535 in addition to the text details.
3538 *) Very, very preliminary EXPERIMENTAL support for printing of general
3539 ASN1 structures. This currently produces rather ugly output and doesn't
3540 handle several customised structures at all.
3543 *) Integrated support for PVK file format and some related formats such
3544 as MS PUBLICKEYBLOB and PRIVATEKEYBLOB. Command line switches to support
3545 these in the 'rsa' and 'dsa' utilities.
3548 *) Support for PKCS#1 RSAPublicKey format on rsa utility command line.
3551 *) Remove the ancient ASN1_METHOD code. This was only ever used in one
3552 place for the (very old) "NETSCAPE" format certificates which are now
3553 handled using new ASN1 code equivalents.
3556 *) Let the TLSv1_method() etc. functions return a 'const' SSL_METHOD
3557 pointer and make the SSL_METHOD parameter in SSL_CTX_new,
3558 SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version and SSL_set_ssl_method 'const'.
3561 *) Modify CRL distribution points extension code to print out previously
3562 unsupported fields. Enhance extension setting code to allow setting of
3566 *) Add print and set support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension.
3569 *) Change 'Configure' script to enable Camellia by default.
3572 Changes between 0.9.8m and 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]
3574 *) When rejecting SSL/TLS records due to an incorrect version number, never
3575 update s->server with a new major version number. As of
3576 - OpenSSL 0.9.8m if 'short' is a 16-bit type,
3577 - OpenSSL 0.9.8f if 'short' is longer than 16 bits,
3578 the previous behavior could result in a read attempt at NULL when
3579 receiving specific incorrect SSL/TLS records once record payload
3580 protection is active. (CVE-2010-0740)
3581 [Bodo Moeller, Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org>]
3583 *) Fix for CVE-2010-0433 where some kerberos enabled versions of OpenSSL
3584 could be crashed if the relevant tables were not present (e.g. chrooted).
3585 [Tomas Hoger <thoger@redhat.com>]
3587 Changes between 0.9.8l and 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]
3589 *) Always check bn_wexpend() return values for failure. (CVE-2009-3245)
3590 [Martin Olsson, Neel Mehta]
3592 *) Fix X509_STORE locking: Every 'objs' access requires a lock (to
3593 accommodate for stack sorting, always a write lock!).
3596 *) On some versions of WIN32 Heap32Next is very slow. This can cause
3597 excessive delays in the RAND_poll(): over a minute. As a workaround
3598 include a time check in the inner Heap32Next loop too.
3601 *) The code that handled flushing of data in SSL/TLS originally used the
3602 BIO_CTRL_INFO ctrl to see if any data was pending first. This caused
3603 the problem outlined in PR#1949. The fix suggested there however can
3604 trigger problems with buggy BIO_CTRL_WPENDING (e.g. some versions
3605 of Apache). So instead simplify the code to flush unconditionally.
3606 This should be fine since flushing with no data to flush is a no op.
3609 *) Handle TLS versions 2.0 and later properly and correctly use the
3610 highest version of TLS/SSL supported. Although TLS >= 2.0 is some way
3611 off ancient servers have a habit of sticking around for a while...
3614 *) Modify compression code so it frees up structures without using the
3615 ex_data callbacks. This works around a problem where some applications
3616 call CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data() before application exit (e.g. when
3617 restarting) then use compression (e.g. SSL with compression) later.
3618 This results in significant per-connection memory leaks and
3619 has caused some security issues including CVE-2008-1678 and
3623 *) Constify crypto/cast (i.e., <openssl/cast.h>): a CAST_KEY doesn't
3624 change when encrypting or decrypting.
3627 *) Add option SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT which will allow clients to
3628 connect and renegotiate with servers which do not support RI.
3629 Until RI is more widely deployed this option is enabled by default.
3632 *) Add "missing" ssl ctrls to clear options and mode.
3635 *) If client attempts to renegotiate and doesn't support RI respond with
3636 a no_renegotiation alert as required by RFC5746. Some renegotiating
3637 TLS clients will continue a connection gracefully when they receive
3638 the alert. Unfortunately OpenSSL mishandled this alert and would hang
3639 waiting for a server hello which it will never receive. Now we treat a
3640 received no_renegotiation alert as a fatal error. This is because
3641 applications requesting a renegotiation might well expect it to succeed
3642 and would have no code in place to handle the server denying it so the
3643 only safe thing to do is to terminate the connection.
3646 *) Add ctrl macro SSL_get_secure_renegotiation_support() which returns 1 if
3647 peer supports secure renegotiation and 0 otherwise. Print out peer
3648 renegotiation support in s_client/s_server.
3651 *) Replace the highly broken and deprecated SPKAC certification method with
3652 the updated NID creation version. This should correctly handle UTF8.
3655 *) Implement RFC5746. Re-enable renegotiation but require the extension
3656 as needed. Unfortunately, SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION
3657 turns out to be a bad idea. It has been replaced by
3658 SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION which can be set with
3659 SSL_CTX_set_options(). This is really not recommended unless you
3660 know what you are doing.
3661 [Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>, Ben Laurie, Steve Henson]
3663 *) Fixes to stateless session resumption handling. Use initial_ctx when
3664 issuing and attempting to decrypt tickets in case it has changed during
3665 servername handling. Use a non-zero length session ID when attempting
3666 stateless session resumption: this makes it possible to determine if
3667 a resumption has occurred immediately after receiving server hello
3668 (several places in OpenSSL subtly assume this) instead of later in
3672 *) The functions ENGINE_ctrl(), OPENSSL_isservice(),
3673 CMS_get1_RecipientRequest() and RAND_bytes() can return <=0 on error
3674 fixes for a few places where the return code is not checked
3676 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3678 *) Add --strict-warnings option to Configure script to include devteam
3679 warnings in other configurations.
3682 *) Add support for --libdir option and LIBDIR variable in makefiles. This
3683 makes it possible to install openssl libraries in locations which
3684 have names other than "lib", for example "/usr/lib64" which some
3686 [Steve Henson, based on patch from Jeremy Utley]
3688 *) Don't allow the use of leading 0x80 in OIDs. This is a violation of
3689 X690 8.9.12 and can produce some misleading textual output of OIDs.
3690 [Steve Henson, reported by Dan Kaminsky]
3692 *) Delete MD2 from algorithm tables. This follows the recommendation in
3693 several standards that it is not used in new applications due to
3694 several cryptographic weaknesses. For binary compatibility reasons
3695 the MD2 API is still compiled in by default.
3698 *) Add compression id to {d2i,i2d}_SSL_SESSION so it is correctly saved
3702 *) Rename uni2asc and asc2uni functions to OPENSSL_uni2asc and
3703 OPENSSL_asc2uni conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name
3705 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3707 *) Fix the server certificate chain building code to use X509_verify_cert(),
3708 it used to have an ad-hoc builder which was unable to cope with anything
3709 other than a simple chain.
3710 [David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Steve Henson]
3712 *) Don't check self signed certificate signatures in X509_verify_cert()
3713 by default (a flag can override this): it just wastes time without
3714 adding any security. As a useful side effect self signed root CAs
3715 with non-FIPS digests are now usable in FIPS mode.
3718 *) In dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message() the check if the current message
3719 is already buffered was missing. For every new message was memory
3720 allocated, allowing an attacker to perform an denial of service attack
3721 with sending out of seq handshake messages until there is no memory
3722 left. Additionally every future messege was buffered, even if the
3723 sequence number made no sense and would be part of another handshake.
3724 So only messages with sequence numbers less than 10 in advance will be