5 This is a high-level summary of the most important changes.
6 For a full list of changes, see the git commit log; for example,
7 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/ and pick the appropriate
10 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 [xx XXX xxxx]
12 *) AES-XTS mode now enforces that its two keys are different to mitigate
13 the attacked described in "Efficient Instantiations of Tweakable
14 Blockciphers and Refinements to Modes OCB and PMAC" by Phillip Rogaway.
15 Details of this attack can be obtained from:
16 http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Erogaway/papers/offsets.pdf
19 *) Rename the object files, i.e. give them other names than in previous
20 versions. Their names now include the name of the final product, as
21 well as its type mnemonic (bin, lib, shlib).
24 *) Added new option for 'openssl list', '-objects', which will display the
25 list of built in objects, i.e. OIDs with names.
28 Changes between 1.1.0i and 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
30 *) Add a new ClientHello callback. Provides a callback interface that gives
31 the application the ability to adjust the nascent SSL object at the
32 earliest stage of ClientHello processing, immediately after extensions have
33 been collected but before they have been processed. In particular, this
34 callback can adjust the supported TLS versions in response to the contents
38 *) Add SM2 base algorithm support.
41 *) s390x assembly pack: add (improved) hardware-support for the following
42 cryptographic primitives: sha3, shake, aes-gcm, aes-ccm, aes-ctr, aes-ofb,
43 aes-cfb/cfb8, aes-ecb.
46 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
47 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
48 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
51 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
52 step for prime curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
53 differential addition-and-doubling in homogeneous projective coordinates
54 from Izu-Takagi "A fast parallel elliptic curve multiplication resistant
55 against side channel attacks" and Brier-Joye "Weierstrass Elliptic Curves
56 and Side-Channel Attacks" Eq. (8) for y-coordinate recovery, modified
57 to work in projective coordinates.
58 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
60 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
61 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
62 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
63 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
65 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
67 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
70 *) The 'tsget' script is renamed to 'tsget.pl', to avoid confusion when
71 moving between systems, and to avoid confusion when a Windows build is
72 done with mingw vs with MSVC. For POSIX installs, there's still a
73 symlink or copy named 'tsget' to avoid that confusion as well.
76 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
77 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
80 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
81 step for binary curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
82 differential addition-and-doubling in mixed Lopez-Dahab projective
83 coordinates, modified to independently blind the operands.
84 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
86 *) Add a scaffold to optionally enhance the Montgomery ladder implementation
87 for `ec_scalar_mul_ladder` (formerly `ec_mul_consttime`) allowing
88 EC_METHODs to implement their own specialized "ladder step", to take
89 advantage of more favorable coordinate systems or more efficient
90 differential addition-and-doubling algorithms.
91 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
93 *) Modified the random device based seed sources to keep the relevant
94 file descriptors open rather than reopening them on each access.
95 This allows such sources to operate in a chroot() jail without
96 the associated device nodes being available. This behaviour can be
97 controlled using RAND_keep_random_devices_open().
100 *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
101 performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
102 security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
106 *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
107 handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
108 different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
109 mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
110 doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
111 multi-version installation is managed.
114 *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
115 EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
116 mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
117 When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
118 EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
121 *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
122 coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
123 chosen point SCA attacks.
124 [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
126 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
127 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
130 *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
131 length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
132 a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
135 *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
136 I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
137 can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
138 Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
139 TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
140 around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
141 It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
142 SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
143 SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
146 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
147 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
150 *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
151 pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
154 *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
155 binary and prime elliptic curves.
158 *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
159 constant time fixed point multiplication.
162 *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
163 defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
164 when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
165 in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
166 ECDH derive operations).
167 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida García,
170 *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
173 *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
174 randomness from the system.
175 [Matthias St. Pierre]
177 *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
180 *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
181 loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
184 *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
187 *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
188 [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
190 *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
193 *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
194 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
195 SSL_set_ciphersuites()
198 *) Memory allocation failures consistenly add an error to the error
202 *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
203 in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
206 *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
209 *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
210 for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
211 [Matthias St. Pierre]
213 *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
214 for the license change).
217 *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
218 SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
221 *) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
222 configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
223 below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
224 In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
225 would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
226 configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
227 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
230 *) On POSIX (BSD, Linux, ...) systems the ocsp(1) command running
231 in responder mode now supports the new "-multi" option, which
232 spawns the specified number of child processes to handle OCSP
233 requests. The "-timeout" option now also limits the OCSP
234 responder's patience to wait to receive the full client request
235 on a newly accepted connection. Child processes are respawned
236 as needed, and the CA index file is automatically reloaded
237 when changed. This makes it possible to run the "ocsp" responder
238 as a long-running service, making the OpenSSL CA somewhat more
239 feature-complete. In this mode, most diagnostic messages logged
240 after entering the event loop are logged via syslog(3) rather than
244 *) Added support for X448 and Ed448. Heavily based on original work by
248 *) Extend OSSL_STORE with capabilities to search and to narrow the set of
249 objects loaded. This adds the functions OSSL_STORE_expect() and
250 OSSL_STORE_find() as well as needed tools to construct searches and
251 get the search data out of them.
254 *) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
255 version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
256 that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
257 https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
260 *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
262 The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
263 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially
264 a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0
265 object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator
266 using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself
267 automatically using trusted system entropy sources.
269 Some of its new features are:
270 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
271 o The default RAND method makes use of a DRBG.
272 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
273 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
274 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
275 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
277 [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
279 *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
280 so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script
281 to display all sorts of configuration data.
284 *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure.
287 *) Added SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 algorithm support.
290 *) The last traces of Netware support, first removed in 1.1.0, have
294 *) Get rid of Makefile.shared, and in the process, make the processing
295 of certain files (rc.obj, or the .def/.map/.opt files produced from
296 the ordinal files) more visible and hopefully easier to trace and
297 debug (or make silent).
300 *) Make it possible to have environment variable assignments as
301 arguments to config / Configure.
304 *) Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support.
307 *) Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
308 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
309 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
310 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
312 *) Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
313 as documented in RFC6066.
314 Based on a patch from Tomasz Moń
315 [Filipe Raimundo da Silva]
317 *) Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
318 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
319 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
320 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
322 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
323 original author does not agree with the license change.
326 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
329 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
330 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
333 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
334 without clearing the errors.
337 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
338 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
339 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
345 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
346 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
347 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
350 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
351 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
352 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
353 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
356 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
357 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
358 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
359 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
360 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
361 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
362 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
365 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
366 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
367 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
368 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
371 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
372 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
373 error code calls like this:
375 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
377 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
378 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
380 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
382 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
385 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
386 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
387 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
388 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
391 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
392 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
393 than just the call where this user data is passed.
396 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
398 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
400 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
401 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
402 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
403 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
404 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
405 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
406 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
410 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
411 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
412 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
416 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
417 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
418 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
420 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
424 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
425 platform rather than 'mingw'.
428 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
429 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
430 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
431 certificates and CRLs.
434 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
435 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
438 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
439 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
442 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
443 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
444 which is the minimum version we support.
447 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
448 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
449 are no longer allowed.
452 *) Add support for ARIA
455 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
456 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
457 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
461 *) Add support for SipHash
464 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
465 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
466 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
467 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
470 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
471 using the algorithm defined in
472 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
475 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
476 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
478 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
481 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
482 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
486 Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
488 *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
490 During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
491 malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
492 cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
493 key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
494 could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
496 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
500 *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
502 The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
503 a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
504 mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
505 recover the private key.
507 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
508 Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
512 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
513 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
514 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
517 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
518 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
521 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
522 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
523 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
524 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
526 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
528 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
531 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
532 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
535 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
536 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
539 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
540 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
541 are no longer allowed.
544 *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
546 Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
547 through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
548 signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
549 line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
550 at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
551 some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
552 and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
553 could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
554 OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
555 signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
556 OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
557 and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
558 the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
561 Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
563 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
565 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
566 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
567 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
568 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
569 so this is considered safe.
571 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
576 *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
578 Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
579 effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
580 byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
581 authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
582 security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
583 HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
585 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
590 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
591 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
592 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
593 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
596 *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
598 OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
599 (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
600 changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
601 SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
602 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
604 Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
605 using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
606 accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
609 *) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
613 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
615 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
616 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
617 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
618 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
619 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
620 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
621 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
622 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
623 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
624 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
626 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
627 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
629 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
630 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
634 Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
636 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
638 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
639 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
640 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
641 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
642 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
643 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
644 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
645 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
646 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
647 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
648 key that is shared between multiple clients.
650 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
651 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
653 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
657 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
659 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
660 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
661 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
663 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
667 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
669 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
670 platform rather than 'mingw'.
673 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
674 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
675 which is the minimum version we support.
678 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
680 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
682 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
683 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
684 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
685 and servers are affected.
687 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
691 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
693 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
695 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
696 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
697 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
699 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
703 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
705 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
706 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
707 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
710 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
714 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
716 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
717 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
718 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
719 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
720 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
721 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
722 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
723 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
724 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
725 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
726 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
727 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
728 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
730 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
734 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
736 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
738 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
739 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
740 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
742 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
746 *) CMS Null dereference
748 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
749 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
750 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
751 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
752 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
755 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
759 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
761 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
762 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
763 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
764 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
765 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
766 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
767 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
768 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
769 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
770 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
771 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
772 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
773 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
774 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
776 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
777 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
778 providing reproducible case.
782 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
783 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
786 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
788 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
790 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
791 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
792 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
793 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
794 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
795 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
797 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
799 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
803 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
805 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
807 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
808 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
809 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
810 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
811 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
812 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
813 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
815 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
819 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
821 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
822 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
823 Denial Of Service attack.
825 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
829 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
830 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
832 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
833 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
834 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
835 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
836 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
837 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
838 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
839 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
840 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
841 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
842 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
843 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
844 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
845 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
846 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
848 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
849 that the connection fails
851 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
852 very little free memory
854 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
855 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
856 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
857 memory to service the multiple requests.
859 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
860 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
861 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
862 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
863 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
865 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
866 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
869 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
870 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
871 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
872 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
873 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
874 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
875 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
878 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
880 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
881 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
882 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
883 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
884 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
888 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
889 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
890 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
893 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
894 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
895 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
896 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
899 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
900 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
904 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
905 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
906 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
907 no-ops and deprecated.
910 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
911 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
913 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
915 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
916 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
917 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
920 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
921 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
922 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
923 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
924 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
925 and the validity of object reference counter.
926 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
928 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
929 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
930 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
931 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
934 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
937 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
938 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
939 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
940 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
942 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
946 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
947 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
950 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
953 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
956 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
957 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
958 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
959 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
960 name and is used as is.
963 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
964 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
965 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
968 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
969 the "no-shared" Configure option.
972 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
973 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
977 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
978 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
979 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
980 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
981 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
982 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
983 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
984 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
988 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
989 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
990 enabled with '--debug' builds.
991 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
993 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
994 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
995 these have been added.
998 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
999 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
1000 functions for managing these have been added.
1003 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
1004 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1005 these have been added.
1008 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
1009 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
1013 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
1016 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
1019 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
1020 it is always safe to #include a header now.
1023 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
1026 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
1029 *) Add support for HKDF.
1030 [Alessandro Ghedini]
1032 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
1035 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
1036 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
1037 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
1038 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
1039 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
1040 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
1041 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
1044 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
1045 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
1046 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
1049 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
1050 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
1051 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
1052 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
1053 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
1054 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
1055 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
1057 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1058 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1061 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
1064 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
1065 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
1066 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
1067 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
1068 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
1069 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
1073 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
1074 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
1077 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
1078 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
1079 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
1082 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
1083 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
1084 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
1085 implemented by other servers.
1088 *) Add X25519 support.
1089 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
1090 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
1091 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
1092 key generation and key derivation.
1094 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
1098 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
1099 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1100 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
1101 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
1102 seed, even if the seed is configured.
1104 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1105 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1106 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1107 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1108 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1109 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1110 that of a valid user.
1113 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
1114 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
1115 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
1116 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
1118 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
1119 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
1121 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
1122 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
1123 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
1124 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
1126 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
1127 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
1131 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
1132 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
1133 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
1134 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
1135 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
1136 of how OpenSSL was configured.
1138 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
1139 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
1140 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
1143 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
1146 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
1147 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
1148 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
1152 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
1153 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
1154 old #define's might need to be updated.
1155 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
1157 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
1160 *) New "unified" build system
1162 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
1163 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
1165 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
1166 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
1167 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
1169 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
1170 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
1171 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
1172 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
1175 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
1176 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
1177 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
1178 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
1179 libraries" in INSTALL.
1181 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
1184 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
1185 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
1186 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
1187 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
1190 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
1191 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
1193 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
1194 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
1195 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
1196 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
1197 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
1198 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
1199 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
1200 have been adapted accordingly.
1203 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
1207 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
1208 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
1209 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
1210 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
1213 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
1214 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
1215 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
1219 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
1220 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
1223 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
1224 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
1225 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
1227 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
1228 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
1229 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
1231 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
1232 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
1234 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
1235 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
1236 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
1237 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
1240 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
1241 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
1242 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
1243 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
1244 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
1248 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
1249 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
1250 straightforward and less interdependent.
1252 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
1253 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
1254 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
1256 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
1257 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
1258 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
1260 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
1261 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
1262 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
1263 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
1265 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
1266 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
1269 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
1270 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
1271 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
1272 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
1276 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
1278 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
1280 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
1281 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
1282 before trying to build now.*
1285 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
1289 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
1291 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
1292 the application's responsibility. The application provides
1293 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
1294 used to authenticate the peer.
1296 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
1297 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
1298 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
1299 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
1300 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
1303 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
1304 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
1305 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
1306 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
1307 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
1308 or the 1.1.0 releases.
1310 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
1311 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
1312 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
1313 support for the deprecated features from the library and
1314 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
1315 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
1316 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
1317 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
1320 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
1321 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
1322 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
1323 compile with later releases.
1325 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
1326 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
1327 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
1328 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
1329 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
1332 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
1333 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
1334 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
1335 MaxProtocol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
1336 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
1337 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
1338 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
1339 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
1342 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
1345 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
1346 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
1347 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
1350 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
1351 include the ec.h header file instead.
1354 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
1355 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
1356 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
1359 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
1360 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
1363 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
1364 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
1366 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
1367 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
1368 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
1371 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
1372 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
1373 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
1374 an already created structure.
1375 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
1376 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
1377 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
1378 for deprecated builds.
1381 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
1382 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
1383 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
1384 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
1385 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
1386 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
1387 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
1390 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
1391 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
1392 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
1393 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
1396 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
1397 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
1400 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
1401 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
1404 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
1405 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
1406 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
1407 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
1408 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
1409 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
1410 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
1414 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
1415 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
1416 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
1419 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
1422 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
1424 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
1426 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
1428 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
1429 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
1437 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
1438 set a mandatory field to NULL.
1440 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
1441 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
1442 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
1446 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
1449 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
1450 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
1451 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
1452 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
1455 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1456 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1457 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1458 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1461 *) Fix no-stdio build.
1462 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
1463 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
1465 *) New testing framework
1466 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
1467 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
1468 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
1469 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
1470 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
1471 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
1473 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
1475 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
1476 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
1480 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
1481 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
1482 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
1483 and others were changed. All are now documented.
1486 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1488 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1490 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
1491 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1493 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1494 original RSA_PSK patch.
1497 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1498 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1499 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1500 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1503 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1504 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1507 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1508 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1509 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1512 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1513 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1514 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1515 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1519 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1520 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1521 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1522 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1525 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1526 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1527 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1528 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1529 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1530 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1533 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1534 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1535 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1536 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1537 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1538 header file has been removed.
1541 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1542 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1545 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1546 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1547 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1549 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1553 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1556 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1560 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1563 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1564 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1565 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1568 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1569 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1570 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1571 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1574 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1575 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1576 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1577 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1578 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1579 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1582 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1583 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1584 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1585 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1588 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1589 compatible client hello.
1592 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1593 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1594 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1596 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1599 *) Removed old DES API.
1602 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1608 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1613 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1616 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1617 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1618 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1619 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1620 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1621 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1622 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1623 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1624 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1625 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1626 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1629 *) Cleaned up dead code
1630 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1633 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1634 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1635 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1638 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1639 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1640 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1643 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1644 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1645 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1647 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1648 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1649 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1651 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1653 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1655 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1656 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1657 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1659 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1660 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1662 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1663 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1666 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1667 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1668 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1669 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1671 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1672 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1673 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1674 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1676 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1677 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1678 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1680 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1681 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1684 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1686 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1687 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1689 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1690 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1692 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1695 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1699 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1700 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1701 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1702 algorithms and include tests cases.
1705 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1709 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1710 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1713 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1714 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1716 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1717 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1720 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1721 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1725 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1726 sign or verify all in one operation.
1729 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1730 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1731 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1734 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1737 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1740 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1741 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1742 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1743 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1744 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1747 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1751 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1752 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1753 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1756 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1759 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1760 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1763 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1764 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1767 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1768 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1769 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1772 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1773 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1774 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1775 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1776 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1777 requested amount of entropy.
1780 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1781 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1784 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1785 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1786 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1790 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1791 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1792 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1795 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1796 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1797 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1798 will never use XTS mode.
1801 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1802 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1803 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1804 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1805 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1806 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1809 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
1810 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
1811 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
1812 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
1815 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
1816 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
1817 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
1820 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
1823 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
1826 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
1827 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
1830 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
1831 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
1834 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
1835 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
1838 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
1839 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
1840 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
1841 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
1842 and rename any affected symbols.
1845 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
1846 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
1849 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
1850 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
1851 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
1854 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
1857 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
1858 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
1859 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
1862 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
1863 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
1866 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
1867 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
1868 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
1869 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
1870 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
1871 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
1875 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
1876 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
1877 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
1878 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
1879 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
1880 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
1881 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
1882 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
1885 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
1886 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
1889 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
1891 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1892 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1894 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
1895 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
1896 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
1897 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
1898 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
1899 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
1901 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
1902 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
1903 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
1905 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
1907 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
1911 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
1912 Add CMAC pkey methods.
1915 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
1916 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
1917 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
1920 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
1921 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
1922 multi-process servers.
1925 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
1926 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
1927 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
1928 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
1929 RAND_METHOD structure.
1932 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
1933 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
1934 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
1935 whose return value is often ignored.
1938 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
1939 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
1940 validated when establishing a connection.
1941 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
1943 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
1945 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
1947 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
1948 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
1951 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
1952 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
1953 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
1954 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
1955 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
1958 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
1962 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
1964 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
1965 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
1966 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
1969 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
1970 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
1971 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
1972 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
1973 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
1974 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
1976 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1980 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
1982 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
1983 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
1984 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
1985 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
1986 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
1987 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
1988 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
1989 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
1990 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
1991 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
1992 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
1993 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
1994 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
1995 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
1996 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
1997 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
1999 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2003 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
2005 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
2006 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
2007 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
2009 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
2010 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
2011 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
2012 applications are not affected.
2014 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
2020 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
2021 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
2022 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
2024 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2028 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
2029 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
2032 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
2036 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
2037 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
2040 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
2042 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
2043 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
2044 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
2047 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
2048 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
2049 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
2050 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
2051 will need to explicitly call either of:
2053 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2055 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2057 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
2058 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
2059 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
2060 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
2061 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
2065 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
2067 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
2068 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
2069 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
2072 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
2077 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
2079 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
2081 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
2082 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
2083 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
2086 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
2087 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
2088 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
2089 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
2090 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
2091 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
2092 that of a valid user.
2096 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
2098 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
2099 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
2100 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
2101 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
2102 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
2103 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
2104 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
2105 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
2106 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
2107 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
2108 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
2110 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
2111 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
2112 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
2113 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
2114 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
2116 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
2120 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
2122 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
2123 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
2124 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
2126 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
2127 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
2128 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
2129 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
2130 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
2133 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
2134 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
2135 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
2136 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
2137 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
2138 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
2139 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
2140 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
2141 as command line arguments.
2143 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
2144 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
2145 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
2147 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
2151 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
2153 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
2154 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
2155 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
2156 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
2157 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
2159 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
2160 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
2161 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
2162 http://cachebleed.info.
2166 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
2167 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
2168 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
2169 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
2172 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
2173 *) DH small subgroups
2175 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
2176 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
2177 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
2178 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
2179 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
2180 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
2181 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
2182 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
2183 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
2184 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
2186 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
2187 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
2188 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
2189 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
2190 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
2192 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
2193 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
2194 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
2195 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
2197 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
2198 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
2200 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
2204 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
2206 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
2207 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
2208 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
2211 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
2212 and Sebastian Schinzel.
2216 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
2218 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
2220 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
2221 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
2222 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
2223 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
2224 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
2225 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
2226 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
2227 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
2228 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
2229 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
2230 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
2231 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
2233 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
2237 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
2239 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2240 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2241 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
2242 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
2243 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
2244 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
2245 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
2248 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
2252 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
2254 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
2255 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
2256 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
2257 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
2259 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
2264 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
2265 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
2266 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
2267 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
2270 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
2272 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
2274 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
2276 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
2278 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
2279 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
2280 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
2281 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
2282 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
2283 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
2285 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
2289 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
2291 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
2292 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
2296 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
2298 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
2300 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
2301 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
2304 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
2305 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
2306 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
2307 client authentication enabled.
2309 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
2313 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
2315 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
2316 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
2317 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
2320 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
2321 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
2322 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
2323 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
2324 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
2327 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
2328 independently by Hanno Böck.
2332 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
2334 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
2335 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
2336 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2338 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
2339 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
2340 servers are not affected.
2342 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2346 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
2348 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
2349 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
2350 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
2352 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
2356 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
2358 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
2359 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
2360 a double free of the ticket data.
2364 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
2365 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
2366 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
2369 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
2371 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
2373 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
2374 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
2375 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
2377 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
2380 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
2382 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
2384 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
2385 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
2386 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
2387 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
2388 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
2389 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
2390 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
2391 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
2393 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
2397 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
2399 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
2400 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
2401 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
2402 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
2403 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
2404 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
2405 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
2406 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
2409 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
2413 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
2415 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
2416 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
2417 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
2418 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2419 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2420 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2424 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
2426 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2427 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2428 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
2429 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
2430 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2431 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2432 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2434 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
2438 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
2440 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
2441 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
2442 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
2444 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
2445 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
2446 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
2451 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
2453 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
2454 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
2455 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2457 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
2458 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
2459 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
2461 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2465 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
2467 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
2468 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
2469 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
2471 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
2472 (OpenSSL development team).
2476 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
2478 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
2479 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
2480 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
2484 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
2486 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
2487 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
2488 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
2489 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
2490 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
2491 SSL_client_methodv23)
2492 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2493 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2495 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2496 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2497 output may be predictable.
2499 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2500 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2502 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2506 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2508 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2509 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2510 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2511 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2512 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2513 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2515 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2520 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2522 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2523 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2525 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2529 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2532 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2534 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2535 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2536 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2537 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2538 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2539 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2542 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2543 (other platforms pending).
2544 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2546 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2547 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2550 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2551 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2552 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2555 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2556 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2557 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2558 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2561 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2562 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2564 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2565 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2566 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2567 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2568 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2570 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2573 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2574 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2575 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2576 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2578 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2580 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2582 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2583 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2584 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2587 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2590 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2591 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2592 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2595 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2596 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2599 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2600 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2603 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2604 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2605 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2606 algorithms and include tests cases.
2609 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2611 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2613 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2614 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2617 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2618 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2619 summary of the connection parameters.
2622 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2623 of connection parameters.
2626 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2627 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2629 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2630 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2633 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2636 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2637 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2640 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2641 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2644 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2648 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2649 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2650 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2653 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2656 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2657 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2660 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2661 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2662 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2666 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2667 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2670 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2674 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2678 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2679 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2680 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2681 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2684 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2685 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2688 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2689 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2690 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2694 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2695 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2696 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2697 use the certificate.
2700 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2703 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2704 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2705 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2706 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2707 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2708 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2709 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2711 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2712 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2716 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2717 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2718 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2721 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2722 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2723 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2724 supported signature algorithms.
2727 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2730 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2731 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2732 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2733 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2734 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2735 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2736 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2739 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2740 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2741 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2742 to have similar checks in it.
2744 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2745 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2746 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2747 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2748 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2751 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2752 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2753 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2754 shared signature algorithms.
2757 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2758 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2762 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2763 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2764 it couldn't be removed.
2767 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2768 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2771 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2772 functions. Add manual page.
2773 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2775 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2776 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2780 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2781 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2783 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2784 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2785 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2786 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2790 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2791 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2794 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2795 platform support for Linux and Android.
2798 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2801 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2802 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2803 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2804 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2805 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2808 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2809 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
2810 the new parameter format automatically.
2813 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
2814 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
2817 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
2820 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
2821 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
2822 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
2823 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
2824 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
2827 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
2828 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
2829 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
2830 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
2831 to set list of supported curves.
2834 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
2835 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
2836 to print out received values.
2839 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
2840 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
2841 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
2844 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
2845 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
2848 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
2849 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
2852 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
2856 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
2858 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
2859 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
2860 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
2862 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
2864 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
2865 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
2867 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
2869 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
2870 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
2871 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
2872 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
2876 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
2877 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
2878 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
2879 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
2880 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
2881 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
2885 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
2886 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
2887 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
2888 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
2892 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
2895 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
2896 reporting this issue.
2900 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
2901 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
2902 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
2903 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
2904 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
2905 INRIA or reporting this issue.
2909 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
2910 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
2911 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
2912 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
2913 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
2914 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
2915 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
2920 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
2921 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
2923 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
2924 and can vary with the CTX.
2927 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
2929 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
2930 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
2931 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
2932 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
2933 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
2935 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
2937 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
2938 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
2940 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
2942 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
2943 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
2944 errors for some broken certificates.
2946 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
2948 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
2950 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
2951 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
2953 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
2954 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
2955 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
2956 (negative or with leading zeroes).
2958 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
2959 of the OpenSSL core team.
2964 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
2965 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
2966 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
2967 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
2968 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
2969 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
2970 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
2971 the OpenSSL core team.
2975 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
2976 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
2977 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
2978 sanity and breaks all known clients.
2979 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
2981 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
2982 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
2983 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
2986 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
2987 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
2988 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2989 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
2990 announced in the initial ServerHello.
2992 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
2993 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2994 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
2997 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
2999 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
3001 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
3002 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
3003 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
3004 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
3005 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
3006 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
3007 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
3009 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
3013 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
3015 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
3016 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
3017 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
3018 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
3019 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
3024 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
3026 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
3027 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
3028 configured to send them.
3030 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
3032 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
3033 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
3034 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
3036 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3038 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
3040 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
3041 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
3042 DigestInfo structures.
3044 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
3048 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
3050 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
3051 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
3052 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
3054 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
3055 Group for discovering this issue.
3059 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
3060 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
3061 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
3062 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
3063 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
3065 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
3066 researching this issue.
3070 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
3071 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
3072 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
3073 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
3075 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
3080 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
3081 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3082 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3086 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
3087 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
3088 Denial of Service attack.
3089 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3093 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
3094 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
3095 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3096 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
3101 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
3102 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
3103 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
3105 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
3110 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
3111 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
3112 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
3113 Denial of Service attack.
3115 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
3116 discovering and researching this issue.
3120 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
3121 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
3122 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
3123 output to the attacker.
3125 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
3127 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
3129 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
3130 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
3131 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
3134 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
3136 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
3137 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
3138 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
3140 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
3141 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
3142 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
3144 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
3145 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
3148 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
3150 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
3152 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
3153 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
3154 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
3155 code on a vulnerable client or server.
3157 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
3158 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
3160 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
3161 are subject to a denial of service attack.
3163 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
3164 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
3165 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
3167 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
3169 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3171 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
3172 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
3173 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3175 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
3176 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3178 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
3180 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
3181 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
3184 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
3185 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
3186 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
3187 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3189 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
3190 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
3191 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
3192 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
3194 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
3195 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
3196 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
3198 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
3200 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
3201 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
3202 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
3203 is at least 512 bytes long.
3205 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
3207 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
3209 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
3210 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
3211 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
3214 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
3215 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
3216 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
3219 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
3220 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
3221 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
3222 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
3223 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
3224 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
3225 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
3227 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
3229 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
3230 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
3231 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3233 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
3235 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
3237 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
3238 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
3239 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
3241 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3242 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3243 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
3244 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
3246 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3248 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
3249 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
3250 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
3251 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
3252 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
3256 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
3257 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
3260 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
3261 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3263 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
3264 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
3265 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
3266 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
3267 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
3269 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
3272 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
3276 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
3278 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
3279 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
3281 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
3282 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
3286 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
3287 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
3290 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
3294 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
3296 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
3297 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
3298 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
3299 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disabling
3300 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
3301 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
3302 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
3303 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
3304 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
3305 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
3308 *) In order to ensure interoperability SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
3309 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
3310 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
3311 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
3312 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
3313 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
3317 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
3319 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
3320 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
3321 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
3323 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
3324 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
3326 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
3328 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
3331 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
3332 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
3334 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
3335 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
3336 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
3337 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
3338 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
3339 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
3340 Most broken servers should now work.
3341 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
3342 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
3345 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
3348 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
3350 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
3351 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
3354 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
3355 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
3356 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
3357 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
3358 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
3361 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
3362 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
3363 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
3364 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
3365 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
3368 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
3369 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3371 *) Add support for SCTP.
3372 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3374 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3375 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3377 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
3379 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
3380 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
3381 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
3382 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
3383 - s390x: z196 support;
3384 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
3388 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
3389 (removal of unnecessary code)
3390 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
3392 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
3395 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
3398 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
3399 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
3400 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
3402 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3404 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
3405 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
3406 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
3407 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
3408 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
3410 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
3411 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
3412 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
3414 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
3415 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
3416 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
3418 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
3419 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
3421 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3423 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
3424 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
3425 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
3428 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
3429 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
3433 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
3434 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
3435 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
3438 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
3439 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
3440 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
3441 the appropriate parameters.
3444 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
3445 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
3446 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
3447 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
3448 against a number of sample certificates.
3451 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
3452 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
3454 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
3455 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
3457 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
3458 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
3462 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
3466 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
3467 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
3468 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
3469 password based CMS).
3472 *) Session-handling fixes:
3473 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
3474 but also support Session Tickets.
3475 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
3476 presented a ticket with an expired session.
3477 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
3478 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
3479 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
3480 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3482 *) Fix PSK session representation.
3485 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
3487 This work was sponsored by Intel.
3490 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
3491 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
3492 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
3493 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
3494 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
3497 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
3498 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
3501 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
3502 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
3503 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
3506 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
3507 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
3508 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
3509 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
3512 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
3513 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
3514 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
3517 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
3518 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
3520 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
3523 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
3524 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
3527 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
3530 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
3531 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
3534 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
3535 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
3538 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
3541 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
3542 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
3543 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
3546 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3549 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3552 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
3553 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
3556 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
3557 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
3558 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
3561 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
3564 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
3568 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
3569 FIPS modules versions.
3572 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
3573 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
3574 until after the certificate request message is received.
3577 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
3578 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
3579 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
3580 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
3583 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
3584 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
3585 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
3586 support yet and no support for client certificates.
3589 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
3590 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
3591 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
3592 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
3593 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
3594 and version checking.
3597 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
3598 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
3599 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
3600 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
3603 *) A long standing patch to add support for SRP from EdelWeb (Peter
3604 Sylvester and Christophe Renou) was integrated.
3605 [Christophe Renou <christophe.renou@edelweb.fr>, Peter Sylvester
3606 <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>, Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu>, and
3609 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
3612 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
3613 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
3614 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3616 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
3617 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
3618 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
3621 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
3622 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
3624 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
3625 a few changes are required:
3627 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
3628 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
3629 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
3630 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
3631 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
3634 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
3636 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
3637 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
3638 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
3639 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
3640 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
3641 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
3642 an MMA defence is not necessary.
3643 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
3644 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
3647 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
3648 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
3649 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
3652 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
3654 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
3655 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
3656 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
3657 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
3660 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
3662 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
3663 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
3664 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
3665 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
3666 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
3667 paper describing this attack can be found at:
3668 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
3669 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3670 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3671 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
3672 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
3673 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
3674 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
3676 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
3678 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3680 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
3681 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
3682 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
3683 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3685 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
3686 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
3688 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
3689 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
3690 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
3691 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3693 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3694 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3696 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
3697 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3699 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
3700 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3702 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
3703 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
3704 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3706 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
3707 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
3708 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
3710 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
3711 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
3712 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
3713 the last update always remained unused).
3714 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]