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 *) Add GMAC to EVP_MAC.
15 *) Ported the HMAC, CMAC and SipHash EVP_PKEY_METHODs to EVP_MAC.
18 *) Added EVP_MAC, an EVP layer MAC API, to simplify adding MAC
19 implementations. This includes a generic EVP_PKEY to EVP_MAC bridge,
20 to facilitate the continued use of MACs through raw private keys in
21 functionality such as EVP_DigestSign* and EVP_DigestVerify*.
24 *) Deprecate ECDH_KDF_X9_62() and mark its replacement as internal. Users
25 should use the EVP interface instead (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_ecdh_kdf_type).
28 *) Added EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_63 and ecdh_KDF_X9_63() as replacements for
29 the EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_62 KDF type and ECDH_KDF_X9_62(). The old names
30 are retained for backwards compatibility.
33 *) AES-XTS mode now enforces that its two keys are different to mitigate
34 the attacked described in "Efficient Instantiations of Tweakable
35 Blockciphers and Refinements to Modes OCB and PMAC" by Phillip Rogaway.
36 Details of this attack can be obtained from:
37 http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Erogaway/papers/offsets.pdf
40 *) Rename the object files, i.e. give them other names than in previous
41 versions. Their names now include the name of the final product, as
42 well as its type mnemonic (bin, lib, shlib).
45 *) Added new option for 'openssl list', '-objects', which will display the
46 list of built in objects, i.e. OIDs with names.
49 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.1a [xx XXX xxxx]
51 *) Fixed the issue that RAND_add()/RAND_seed() silently discards random input
52 if its length exceeds 4096 bytes. The limit has been raised to a buffer size
53 of two gigabytes and the error handling improved.
55 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Dr. Falko Strenzke. It has been
56 categorized as a normal bug, not a security issue, because the DRBG reseeds
57 automatically and is fully functional even without additional randomness
58 provided by the application.
60 Changes between 1.1.0i and 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
62 *) Add a new ClientHello callback. Provides a callback interface that gives
63 the application the ability to adjust the nascent SSL object at the
64 earliest stage of ClientHello processing, immediately after extensions have
65 been collected but before they have been processed. In particular, this
66 callback can adjust the supported TLS versions in response to the contents
70 *) Add SM2 base algorithm support.
73 *) s390x assembly pack: add (improved) hardware-support for the following
74 cryptographic primitives: sha3, shake, aes-gcm, aes-ccm, aes-ctr, aes-ofb,
75 aes-cfb/cfb8, aes-ecb.
78 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
79 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
80 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
83 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
84 step for prime curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
85 differential addition-and-doubling in homogeneous projective coordinates
86 from Izu-Takagi "A fast parallel elliptic curve multiplication resistant
87 against side channel attacks" and Brier-Joye "Weierstrass Elliptic Curves
88 and Side-Channel Attacks" Eq. (8) for y-coordinate recovery, modified
89 to work in projective coordinates.
90 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
92 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
93 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
94 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
95 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
97 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
99 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
102 *) The 'tsget' script is renamed to 'tsget.pl', to avoid confusion when
103 moving between systems, and to avoid confusion when a Windows build is
104 done with mingw vs with MSVC. For POSIX installs, there's still a
105 symlink or copy named 'tsget' to avoid that confusion as well.
108 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
109 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
112 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
113 step for binary curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
114 differential addition-and-doubling in mixed Lopez-Dahab projective
115 coordinates, modified to independently blind the operands.
116 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
118 *) Add a scaffold to optionally enhance the Montgomery ladder implementation
119 for `ec_scalar_mul_ladder` (formerly `ec_mul_consttime`) allowing
120 EC_METHODs to implement their own specialized "ladder step", to take
121 advantage of more favorable coordinate systems or more efficient
122 differential addition-and-doubling algorithms.
123 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
125 *) Modified the random device based seed sources to keep the relevant
126 file descriptors open rather than reopening them on each access.
127 This allows such sources to operate in a chroot() jail without
128 the associated device nodes being available. This behaviour can be
129 controlled using RAND_keep_random_devices_open().
132 *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
133 performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
134 security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
138 *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
139 handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
140 different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
141 mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
142 doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
143 multi-version installation is managed.
146 *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
147 EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
148 mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
149 When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
150 EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
153 *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
154 coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
155 chosen point SCA attacks.
156 [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
158 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
159 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
162 *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
163 length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
164 a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
167 *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
168 I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
169 can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
170 Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
171 TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
172 around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
173 It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
174 SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
175 SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
178 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
179 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
182 *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
183 pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
186 *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
187 binary and prime elliptic curves.
190 *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
191 constant time fixed point multiplication.
194 *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
195 defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
196 when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
197 in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
198 ECDH derive operations).
199 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida GarcĂa,
202 *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
205 *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
206 randomness from the system.
207 [Matthias St. Pierre]
209 *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
212 *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
213 loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
216 *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
219 *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
220 [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
222 *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
225 *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
226 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
227 SSL_set_ciphersuites()
230 *) Memory allocation failures consistenly add an error to the error
234 *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
235 in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
238 *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
241 *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
242 for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
243 [Matthias St. Pierre]
245 *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
246 for the license change).
249 *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
250 SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
253 *) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
254 configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
255 below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
256 In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
257 would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
258 configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
259 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
262 *) On POSIX (BSD, Linux, ...) systems the ocsp(1) command running
263 in responder mode now supports the new "-multi" option, which
264 spawns the specified number of child processes to handle OCSP
265 requests. The "-timeout" option now also limits the OCSP
266 responder's patience to wait to receive the full client request
267 on a newly accepted connection. Child processes are respawned
268 as needed, and the CA index file is automatically reloaded
269 when changed. This makes it possible to run the "ocsp" responder
270 as a long-running service, making the OpenSSL CA somewhat more
271 feature-complete. In this mode, most diagnostic messages logged
272 after entering the event loop are logged via syslog(3) rather than
276 *) Added support for X448 and Ed448. Heavily based on original work by
280 *) Extend OSSL_STORE with capabilities to search and to narrow the set of
281 objects loaded. This adds the functions OSSL_STORE_expect() and
282 OSSL_STORE_find() as well as needed tools to construct searches and
283 get the search data out of them.
286 *) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
287 version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
288 that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
289 https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
292 *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
294 The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
295 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially
296 a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0
297 object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator
298 using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself
299 automatically using trusted system entropy sources.
301 Some of its new features are:
302 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
303 o The default RAND method makes use of a DRBG.
304 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
305 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
306 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
307 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
309 [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
311 *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
312 so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script
313 to display all sorts of configuration data.
316 *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure.
319 *) Added SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 algorithm support.
322 *) The last traces of Netware support, first removed in 1.1.0, have
326 *) Get rid of Makefile.shared, and in the process, make the processing
327 of certain files (rc.obj, or the .def/.map/.opt files produced from
328 the ordinal files) more visible and hopefully easier to trace and
329 debug (or make silent).
332 *) Make it possible to have environment variable assignments as
333 arguments to config / Configure.
336 *) Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support.
339 *) Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
340 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
341 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
342 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
344 *) Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
345 as documented in RFC6066.
346 Based on a patch from Tomasz Moń
347 [Filipe Raimundo da Silva]
349 *) Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
350 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
351 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
352 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
354 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
355 original author does not agree with the license change.
358 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
361 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
362 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
365 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
366 without clearing the errors.
369 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
370 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
371 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
377 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
378 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
379 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
382 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
383 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
384 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
385 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
388 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
389 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
390 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
391 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
392 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
393 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
394 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
397 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
398 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
399 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
400 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
403 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
404 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
405 error code calls like this:
407 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
409 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
410 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
412 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
414 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
417 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
418 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
419 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
420 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
423 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
424 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
425 than just the call where this user data is passed.
428 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
430 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
432 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
433 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
434 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
435 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
436 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
437 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
438 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
442 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
443 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
444 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
448 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
449 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
450 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
452 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
456 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
457 platform rather than 'mingw'.
460 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
461 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
462 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
463 certificates and CRLs.
466 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
467 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
470 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
471 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
474 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
475 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
476 which is the minimum version we support.
479 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
480 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
481 are no longer allowed.
484 *) Add support for ARIA
487 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
488 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
489 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
493 *) Add support for SipHash
496 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
497 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
498 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
499 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
502 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
503 using the algorithm defined in
504 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
507 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
508 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
510 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
513 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
514 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
518 Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
520 *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
522 During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
523 malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
524 cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
525 key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
526 could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
528 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
532 *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
534 The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
535 a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
536 mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
537 recover the private key.
539 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
540 Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
544 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
545 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
546 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
549 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
550 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
553 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
554 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
555 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
556 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
558 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
560 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
563 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
564 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
567 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
568 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
571 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
572 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
573 are no longer allowed.
576 *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
578 Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
579 through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
580 signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
581 line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
582 at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
583 some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
584 and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
585 could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
586 OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
587 signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
588 OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
589 and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
590 the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
593 Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
595 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
597 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
598 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
599 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
600 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
601 so this is considered safe.
603 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
608 *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
610 Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
611 effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
612 byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
613 authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
614 security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
615 HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
617 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
622 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
623 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
624 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
625 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
628 *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
630 OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
631 (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
632 changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
633 SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
634 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
636 Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
637 using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
638 accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
641 *) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
645 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
647 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
648 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
649 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
650 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
651 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
652 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
653 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
654 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
655 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
656 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
658 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
659 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
661 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
662 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
666 Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
668 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
670 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
671 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
672 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
673 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
674 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
675 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
676 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
677 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
678 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
679 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
680 key that is shared between multiple clients.
682 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
683 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
685 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
689 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
691 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
692 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
693 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
695 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
699 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
701 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
702 platform rather than 'mingw'.
705 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
706 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
707 which is the minimum version we support.
710 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
712 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
714 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
715 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
716 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
717 and servers are affected.
719 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
723 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
725 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
727 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
728 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
729 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
731 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
735 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
737 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
738 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
739 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
742 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
746 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
748 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
749 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
750 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
751 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
752 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
753 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
754 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
755 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
756 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
757 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
758 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
759 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
760 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
762 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
766 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
768 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
770 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
771 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
772 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
774 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
778 *) CMS Null dereference
780 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
781 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
782 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
783 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
784 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
787 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
791 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
793 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
794 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
795 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
796 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
797 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
798 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
799 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
800 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
801 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
802 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
803 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
804 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
805 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
806 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
808 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
809 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
810 providing reproducible case.
814 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
815 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
818 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
820 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
822 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
823 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
824 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
825 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
826 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
827 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
829 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
831 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
835 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
837 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
839 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
840 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
841 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
842 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
843 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
844 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
845 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
847 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
851 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
853 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
854 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
855 Denial Of Service attack.
857 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
861 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
862 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
864 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
865 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
866 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
867 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
868 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
869 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
870 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
871 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
872 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
873 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
874 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
875 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
876 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
877 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
878 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
880 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
881 that the connection fails
883 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
884 very little free memory
886 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
887 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
888 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
889 memory to service the multiple requests.
891 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
892 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
893 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
894 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
895 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
897 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
898 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
901 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
902 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
903 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
904 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
905 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
906 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
907 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
910 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
912 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
913 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
914 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
915 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
916 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
920 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
921 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
922 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
925 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
926 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
927 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
928 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
931 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
932 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
936 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
937 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
938 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
939 no-ops and deprecated.
942 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
943 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
945 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
947 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
948 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
949 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
952 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
953 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
954 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
955 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
956 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
957 and the validity of object reference counter.
958 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
960 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
961 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
962 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
963 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
966 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
969 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
970 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
971 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
972 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
974 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
978 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
979 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
982 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
985 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
988 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
989 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
990 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
991 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
992 name and is used as is.
995 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
996 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
997 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
1000 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
1001 the "no-shared" Configure option.
1004 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
1005 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
1009 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
1010 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
1011 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
1012 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
1013 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
1014 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
1015 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
1016 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
1017 COMP_zlib_cleanup().
1020 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
1021 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
1022 enabled with '--debug' builds.
1023 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
1025 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
1026 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1027 these have been added.
1030 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
1031 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
1032 functions for managing these have been added.
1035 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
1036 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1037 these have been added.
1040 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
1041 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
1045 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
1048 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
1051 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
1052 it is always safe to #include a header now.
1055 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
1058 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
1061 *) Add support for HKDF.
1062 [Alessandro Ghedini]
1064 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
1067 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
1068 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
1069 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
1070 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
1071 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
1072 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
1073 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
1076 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
1077 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
1078 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
1081 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
1082 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
1083 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
1084 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
1085 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
1086 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
1087 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
1089 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1090 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1093 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
1096 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
1097 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
1098 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
1099 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
1100 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
1101 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
1105 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
1106 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
1109 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
1110 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
1111 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
1114 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
1115 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
1116 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
1117 implemented by other servers.
1120 *) Add X25519 support.
1121 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
1122 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
1123 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
1124 key generation and key derivation.
1126 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
1130 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
1131 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1132 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
1133 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
1134 seed, even if the seed is configured.
1136 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1137 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1138 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1139 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1140 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1141 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1142 that of a valid user.
1145 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
1146 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
1147 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
1148 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
1150 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
1151 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
1153 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
1154 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
1155 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
1156 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
1158 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
1159 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
1163 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
1164 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
1165 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
1166 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
1167 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
1168 of how OpenSSL was configured.
1170 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
1171 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
1172 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
1175 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
1178 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
1179 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
1180 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
1184 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
1185 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
1186 old #define's might need to be updated.
1187 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
1189 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
1192 *) New "unified" build system
1194 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
1195 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
1197 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
1198 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
1199 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
1201 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
1202 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
1203 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
1204 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
1207 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
1208 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
1209 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
1210 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
1211 libraries" in INSTALL.
1213 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
1216 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
1217 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
1218 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
1219 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
1222 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
1223 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
1225 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
1226 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
1227 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
1228 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
1229 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
1230 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
1231 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
1232 have been adapted accordingly.
1235 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
1239 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
1240 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
1241 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
1242 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
1245 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
1246 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
1247 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
1251 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
1252 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
1255 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
1256 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
1257 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
1259 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
1260 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
1261 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
1263 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
1264 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
1266 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
1267 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
1268 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
1269 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
1272 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
1273 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
1274 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
1275 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
1276 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
1280 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
1281 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
1282 straightforward and less interdependent.
1284 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
1285 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
1286 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
1288 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
1289 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
1290 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
1292 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
1293 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
1294 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
1295 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
1297 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
1298 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
1301 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
1302 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
1303 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
1304 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
1308 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
1310 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
1312 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
1313 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
1314 before trying to build now.*
1317 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
1321 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
1323 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
1324 the application's responsibility. The application provides
1325 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
1326 used to authenticate the peer.
1328 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
1329 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
1330 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
1331 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
1332 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
1335 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
1336 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
1337 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
1338 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
1339 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
1340 or the 1.1.0 releases.
1342 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
1343 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
1344 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
1345 support for the deprecated features from the library and
1346 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
1347 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
1348 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
1349 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
1352 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
1353 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
1354 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
1355 compile with later releases.
1357 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
1358 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
1359 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
1360 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
1361 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
1364 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
1365 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
1366 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
1367 MaxProtocol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
1368 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
1369 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
1370 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
1371 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
1374 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
1377 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
1378 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
1379 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
1382 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
1383 include the ec.h header file instead.
1386 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
1387 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
1388 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
1391 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
1392 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
1395 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
1396 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
1398 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
1399 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
1400 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
1403 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
1404 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
1405 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
1406 an already created structure.
1407 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
1408 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
1409 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
1410 for deprecated builds.
1413 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
1414 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
1415 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
1416 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
1417 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
1418 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
1419 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
1422 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
1423 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
1424 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
1425 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
1428 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
1429 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
1432 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
1433 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
1436 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
1437 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
1438 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
1439 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
1440 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
1441 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
1442 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
1446 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
1447 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
1448 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
1451 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
1454 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
1456 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
1458 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
1460 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
1461 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
1469 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
1470 set a mandatory field to NULL.
1472 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
1473 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
1474 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
1478 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
1481 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
1482 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
1483 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
1484 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
1487 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1488 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1489 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1490 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1493 *) Fix no-stdio build.
1494 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
1495 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
1497 *) New testing framework
1498 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
1499 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
1500 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
1501 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
1502 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
1503 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
1505 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
1507 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
1508 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
1512 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
1513 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
1514 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
1515 and others were changed. All are now documented.
1518 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1520 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1522 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
1523 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1525 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1526 original RSA_PSK patch.
1529 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1530 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1531 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1532 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1535 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1536 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1539 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1540 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1541 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1544 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1545 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1546 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1547 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1551 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1552 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1553 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1554 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1557 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1558 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1559 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1560 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1561 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1562 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1565 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1566 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1567 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1568 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1569 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1570 header file has been removed.
1573 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1574 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1577 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1578 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1579 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1581 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1585 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1588 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1592 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1595 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1596 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1597 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1600 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1601 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1602 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1603 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1606 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1607 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1608 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1609 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1610 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1611 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1614 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1615 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1616 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1617 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1620 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1621 compatible client hello.
1624 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1625 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1626 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1628 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1631 *) Removed old DES API.
1634 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1640 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1645 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1648 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1649 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1650 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1651 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1652 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1653 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1654 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1655 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1656 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1657 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1658 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1661 *) Cleaned up dead code
1662 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1665 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1666 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1667 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1670 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1671 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1672 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1675 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1676 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1677 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1679 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1680 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1681 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1683 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1685 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1687 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1688 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1689 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1691 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1692 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1694 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1695 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1698 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1699 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1700 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1701 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1703 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1704 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1705 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1706 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1708 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1709 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1710 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1712 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1713 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1716 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1718 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1719 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1721 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1722 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1724 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1727 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1731 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1732 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1733 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1734 algorithms and include tests cases.
1737 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1741 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1742 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1745 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1746 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1748 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1749 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1752 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1753 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1757 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1758 sign or verify all in one operation.
1761 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1762 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1763 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1766 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1769 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1772 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1773 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1774 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1775 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1776 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1779 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1783 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1784 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1785 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1788 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1791 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1792 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1795 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1796 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1799 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1800 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1801 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1804 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1805 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1806 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1807 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1808 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1809 requested amount of entropy.
1812 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1813 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1816 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1817 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1818 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1822 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1823 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1824 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1827 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1828 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1829 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1830 will never use XTS mode.
1833 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1834 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1835 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1836 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1837 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1838 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1841 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
1842 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
1843 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
1844 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
1847 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
1848 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
1849 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
1852 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
1855 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
1858 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
1859 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
1862 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
1863 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
1866 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
1867 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
1870 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
1871 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
1872 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
1873 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
1874 and rename any affected symbols.
1877 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
1878 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
1881 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
1882 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
1883 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
1886 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
1889 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
1890 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
1891 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
1894 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
1895 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
1898 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
1899 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
1900 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
1901 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
1902 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
1903 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
1907 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
1908 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
1909 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
1910 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
1911 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
1912 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
1913 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
1914 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
1917 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
1918 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
1921 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
1923 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1924 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1926 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
1927 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
1928 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
1929 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
1930 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
1931 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
1933 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
1934 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
1935 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
1937 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
1939 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
1943 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
1944 Add CMAC pkey methods.
1947 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
1948 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
1949 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
1952 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
1953 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
1954 multi-process servers.
1957 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
1958 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
1959 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
1960 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
1961 RAND_METHOD structure.
1964 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
1965 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
1966 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
1967 whose return value is often ignored.
1970 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
1971 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
1972 validated when establishing a connection.
1973 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
1975 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
1977 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
1979 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
1980 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
1983 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
1984 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
1985 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
1986 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
1987 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
1990 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
1994 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
1996 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
1997 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
1998 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
2001 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
2002 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
2003 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
2004 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
2005 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
2006 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
2008 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2012 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
2014 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
2015 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
2016 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
2017 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
2018 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
2019 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
2020 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
2021 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
2022 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
2023 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
2024 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
2025 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
2026 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
2027 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
2028 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
2029 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
2031 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2035 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
2037 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
2038 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
2039 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
2041 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
2042 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
2043 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
2044 applications are not affected.
2046 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
2052 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
2053 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
2054 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
2056 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2060 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
2061 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
2064 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
2068 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
2069 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
2072 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
2074 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
2075 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
2076 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
2079 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
2080 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
2081 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
2082 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
2083 will need to explicitly call either of:
2085 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2087 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2089 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
2090 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
2091 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
2092 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
2093 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
2097 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
2099 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
2100 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
2101 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
2104 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
2109 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
2111 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
2113 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
2114 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
2115 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
2118 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
2119 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
2120 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
2121 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
2122 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
2123 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
2124 that of a valid user.
2128 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
2130 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
2131 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
2132 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
2133 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
2134 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
2135 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
2136 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
2137 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
2138 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
2139 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
2140 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
2142 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
2143 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
2144 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
2145 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
2146 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
2148 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
2152 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
2154 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
2155 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
2156 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
2158 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
2159 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
2160 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
2161 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
2162 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
2165 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
2166 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
2167 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
2168 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
2169 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
2170 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
2171 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
2172 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
2173 as command line arguments.
2175 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
2176 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
2177 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
2179 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
2183 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
2185 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
2186 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
2187 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
2188 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
2189 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
2191 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
2192 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
2193 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
2194 http://cachebleed.info.
2198 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
2199 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
2200 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
2201 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
2204 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
2205 *) DH small subgroups
2207 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
2208 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
2209 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
2210 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
2211 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
2212 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
2213 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
2214 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
2215 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
2216 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
2218 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
2219 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
2220 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
2221 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
2222 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
2224 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
2225 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
2226 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
2227 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
2229 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
2230 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
2232 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
2236 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
2238 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
2239 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
2240 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
2243 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
2244 and Sebastian Schinzel.
2248 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
2250 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
2252 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
2253 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
2254 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
2255 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
2256 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
2257 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
2258 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
2259 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
2260 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
2261 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
2262 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
2263 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
2265 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
2269 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
2271 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2272 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2273 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
2274 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
2275 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
2276 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
2277 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
2280 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by LoĂŻc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
2284 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
2286 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
2287 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
2288 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
2289 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
2291 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
2296 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
2297 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
2298 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
2299 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
2302 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
2304 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
2306 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
2308 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
2310 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
2311 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
2312 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
2313 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
2314 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
2315 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
2317 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
2321 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
2323 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
2324 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
2328 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
2330 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
2332 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
2333 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
2336 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
2337 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
2338 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
2339 client authentication enabled.
2341 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
2345 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
2347 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
2348 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
2349 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
2352 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
2353 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
2354 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
2355 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
2356 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
2359 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
2360 independently by Hanno Böck.
2364 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
2366 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
2367 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
2368 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2370 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
2371 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
2372 servers are not affected.
2374 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2378 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
2380 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
2381 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
2382 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
2384 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
2388 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
2390 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
2391 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
2392 a double free of the ticket data.
2396 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
2397 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
2398 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
2401 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
2403 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
2405 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
2406 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
2407 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
2409 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
2412 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
2414 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
2416 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
2417 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
2418 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
2419 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
2420 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
2421 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
2422 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
2423 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
2425 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
2429 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
2431 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
2432 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
2433 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
2434 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
2435 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
2436 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
2437 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
2438 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
2441 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
2445 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
2447 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
2448 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
2449 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
2450 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2451 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2452 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2456 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
2458 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2459 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2460 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
2461 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
2462 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2463 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2464 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2466 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
2470 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
2472 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
2473 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
2474 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
2476 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
2477 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
2478 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
2483 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
2485 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
2486 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
2487 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2489 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
2490 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
2491 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
2493 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2497 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
2499 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
2500 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
2501 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
2503 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
2504 (OpenSSL development team).
2508 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
2510 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
2511 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
2512 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
2516 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
2518 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
2519 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
2520 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
2521 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
2522 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
2523 SSL_client_methodv23)
2524 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2525 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2527 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2528 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2529 output may be predictable.
2531 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2532 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2534 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2538 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2540 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2541 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2542 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2543 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2544 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2545 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2547 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2552 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2554 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2555 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2557 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2561 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2564 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2566 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2567 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2568 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2569 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2570 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2571 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2574 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2575 (other platforms pending).
2576 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2578 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2579 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2582 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2583 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2584 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2587 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2588 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2589 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2590 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2593 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2594 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2596 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2597 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2598 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2599 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2600 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2602 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2605 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2606 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2607 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2608 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2610 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2612 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2614 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2615 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2616 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2619 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2622 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2623 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2624 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2627 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2628 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2631 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2632 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2635 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2636 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2637 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2638 algorithms and include tests cases.
2641 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2643 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2645 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2646 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2649 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2650 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2651 summary of the connection parameters.
2654 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2655 of connection parameters.
2658 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2659 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2661 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2662 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2665 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2668 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2669 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2672 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2673 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2676 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2680 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2681 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2682 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2685 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2688 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2689 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2692 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2693 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2694 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2698 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2699 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2702 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2706 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2710 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2711 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2712 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2713 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2716 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2717 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2720 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2721 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2722 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2726 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2727 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2728 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2729 use the certificate.
2732 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2735 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2736 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2737 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2738 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2739 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2740 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2741 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2743 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2744 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2748 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2749 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2750 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2753 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2754 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2755 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2756 supported signature algorithms.
2759 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2762 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2763 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2764 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2765 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2766 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2767 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2768 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2771 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2772 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2773 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2774 to have similar checks in it.
2776 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2777 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2778 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2779 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2780 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2783 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2784 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2785 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2786 shared signature algorithms.
2789 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2790 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2794 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2795 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2796 it couldn't be removed.
2799 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2800 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2803 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2804 functions. Add manual page.
2805 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2807 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2808 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2812 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2813 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2815 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2816 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2817 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2818 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2822 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2823 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2826 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2827 platform support for Linux and Android.
2830 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2833 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2834 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2835 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2836 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2837 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2840 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2841 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
2842 the new parameter format automatically.
2845 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
2846 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
2849 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
2852 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
2853 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
2854 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
2855 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
2856 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
2859 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
2860 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
2861 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
2862 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
2863 to set list of supported curves.
2866 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
2867 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
2868 to print out received values.
2871 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
2872 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
2873 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
2876 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
2877 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
2880 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
2881 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
2884 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
2888 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
2890 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
2891 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
2892 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
2894 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
2896 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
2897 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
2899 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
2901 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
2902 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
2903 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
2904 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
2908 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
2909 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
2910 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
2911 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
2912 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
2913 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
2917 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
2918 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
2919 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
2920 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
2924 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
2927 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
2928 reporting this issue.
2932 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
2933 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
2934 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
2935 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
2936 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
2937 INRIA or reporting this issue.
2941 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
2942 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
2943 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
2944 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
2945 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
2946 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
2947 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
2952 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
2953 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
2955 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
2956 and can vary with the CTX.
2959 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
2961 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
2962 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
2963 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
2964 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
2965 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
2967 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
2969 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
2970 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
2972 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
2974 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
2975 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
2976 errors for some broken certificates.
2978 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
2980 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
2982 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
2983 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
2985 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
2986 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
2987 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
2988 (negative or with leading zeroes).
2990 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
2991 of the OpenSSL core team.
2996 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
2997 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
2998 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
2999 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
3000 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
3001 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
3002 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
3003 the OpenSSL core team.
3007 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
3008 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
3009 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
3010 sanity and breaks all known clients.
3011 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
3013 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
3014 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
3015 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
3018 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
3019 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
3020 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3021 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
3022 announced in the initial ServerHello.
3024 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
3025 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3026 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
3029 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
3031 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
3033 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
3034 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
3035 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
3036 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
3037 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
3038 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
3039 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
3041 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
3045 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
3047 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
3048 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
3049 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
3050 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
3051 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
3056 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
3058 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
3059 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
3060 configured to send them.
3062 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
3064 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
3065 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
3066 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
3068 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3070 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
3072 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
3073 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
3074 DigestInfo structures.
3076 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
3080 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
3082 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
3083 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
3084 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
3086 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
3087 Group for discovering this issue.
3091 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
3092 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
3093 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
3094 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
3095 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
3097 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
3098 researching this issue.
3102 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
3103 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
3104 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
3105 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
3107 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
3112 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
3113 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3114 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3118 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
3119 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
3120 Denial of Service attack.
3121 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3125 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
3126 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
3127 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3128 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
3133 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
3134 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
3135 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
3137 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
3142 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
3143 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
3144 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
3145 Denial of Service attack.
3147 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
3148 discovering and researching this issue.
3152 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
3153 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
3154 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
3155 output to the attacker.
3157 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
3159 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
3161 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
3162 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
3163 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
3166 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
3168 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
3169 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
3170 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
3172 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
3173 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
3174 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
3176 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
3177 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
3180 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
3182 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
3184 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
3185 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
3186 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
3187 code on a vulnerable client or server.
3189 Thanks to JĂĽri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
3190 [JĂĽri Aedla, Steve Henson]
3192 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
3193 are subject to a denial of service attack.
3195 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
3196 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
3197 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
3199 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
3201 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3203 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
3204 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
3205 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3207 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
3208 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3210 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
3212 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
3213 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
3216 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
3217 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
3218 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
3219 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3221 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
3222 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
3223 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
3224 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
3226 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
3227 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
3228 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
3230 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
3232 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
3233 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
3234 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
3235 is at least 512 bytes long.
3237 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
3239 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
3241 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
3242 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
3243 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
3246 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
3247 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
3248 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
3251 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
3252 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
3253 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
3254 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
3255 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
3256 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
3257 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
3259 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
3261 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
3262 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
3263 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3265 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
3267 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
3269 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
3270 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
3271 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
3273 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3274 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3275 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
3276 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
3278 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3280 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
3281 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
3282 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
3283 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
3284 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
3288 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
3289 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
3292 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
3293 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3295 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
3296 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
3297 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
3298 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
3299 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
3301 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
3304 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
3308 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
3310 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
3311 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
3313 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
3314 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
3318 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
3319 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
3322 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
3326 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
3328 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
3329 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
3330 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
3331 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disabling
3332 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
3333 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
3334 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
3335 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
3336 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
3337 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
3340 *) In order to ensure interoperability SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
3341 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
3342 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
3343 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
3344 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
3345 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
3349 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
3351 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
3352 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
3353 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
3355 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
3356 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
3358 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
3360 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
3363 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
3364 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
3366 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
3367 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
3368 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
3369 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
3370 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
3371 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
3372 Most broken servers should now work.
3373 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
3374 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
3377 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
3380 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
3382 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
3383 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
3386 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
3387 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
3388 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
3389 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
3390 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
3393 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
3394 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
3395 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
3396 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
3397 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
3400 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
3401 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3403 *) Add support for SCTP.
3404 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3406 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3407 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3409 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
3411 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
3412 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
3413 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
3414 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
3415 - s390x: z196 support;
3416 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
3420 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
3421 (removal of unnecessary code)
3422 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
3424 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
3427 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
3430 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
3431 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
3432 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
3434 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3436 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
3437 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
3438 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
3439 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
3440 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
3442 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
3443 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
3444 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
3446 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
3447 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
3448 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
3450 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
3451 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
3453 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3455 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
3456 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
3457 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
3460 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
3461 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
3465 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
3466 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
3467 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
3470 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
3471 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
3472 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
3473 the appropriate parameters.
3476 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
3477 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
3478 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
3479 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
3480 against a number of sample certificates.
3483 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
3484 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
3486 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
3487 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
3489 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
3490 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
3494 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
3498 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
3499 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
3500 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
3501 password based CMS).
3504 *) Session-handling fixes:
3505 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
3506 but also support Session Tickets.
3507 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
3508 presented a ticket with an expired session.
3509 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
3510 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
3511 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
3512 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3514 *) Fix PSK session representation.
3517 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
3519 This work was sponsored by Intel.
3522 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
3523 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
3524 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
3525 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
3526 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
3529 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
3530 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
3533 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
3534 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
3535 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
3538 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
3539 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
3540 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
3541 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
3544 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
3545 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
3546 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
3549 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
3550 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
3552 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
3555 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
3556 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
3559 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
3562 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
3563 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
3566 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
3567 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
3570 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
3573 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
3574 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
3575 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
3578 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3581 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3584 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
3585 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
3588 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
3589 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
3590 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
3593 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
3596 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
3600 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
3601 FIPS modules versions.
3604 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
3605 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
3606 until after the certificate request message is received.
3609 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
3610 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
3611 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
3612 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
3615 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
3616 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
3617 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
3618 support yet and no support for client certificates.
3621 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
3622 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
3623 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
3624 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
3625 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
3626 and version checking.
3629 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
3630 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
3631 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
3632 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
3635 *) A long standing patch to add support for SRP from EdelWeb (Peter
3636 Sylvester and Christophe Renou) was integrated.
3637 [Christophe Renou <christophe.renou@edelweb.fr>, Peter Sylvester
3638 <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>, Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu>, and
3641 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
3644 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
3645 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
3646 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3648 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
3649 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
3650 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
3653 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
3654 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
3656 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
3657 a few changes are required:
3659 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
3660 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
3661 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
3662 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
3663 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
3666 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
3668 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
3669 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
3670 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
3671 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
3672 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
3673 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
3674 an MMA defence is not necessary.
3675 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
3676 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
3679 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
3680 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
3681 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
3684 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
3686 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
3687 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
3688 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
3689 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
3692 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
3694 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
3695 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
3696 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
3697 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
3698 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
3699 paper describing this attack can be found at:
3700 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
3701 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3702 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3703 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
3704 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
3705 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
3706 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
3708 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
3710 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3712 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
3713 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
3714 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
3715 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3717 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
3718 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
3720 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
3721 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
3722 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
3723 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3725 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3726 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3728 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
3729 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3731 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
3732 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3734 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
3735 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
3736 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3738 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
3739 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
3740 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
3742 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
3743 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
3744 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
3745 the last update always remained unused).
3746 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3748 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
3749 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
3751 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
3753 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
3754 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
3755 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
3757 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
3758 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
3759 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3761 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
3764 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
3765 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
3766 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
3769 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
3770 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
3772 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
3774 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
3776 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
3778 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
3779 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3781 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
3782 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
3786 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
3788 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
3789 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
3790 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
3793 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
3794 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
3795 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
3798 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
3800 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
3801 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
3802 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
3805 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
3809 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
3811 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
3813 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
3815 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
3817 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
3818 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
3819 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
3822 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
3825 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
3826 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
3827 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
3829 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
3830 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
3831 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
3834 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
3835 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
3838 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
3839 some responders need this.
3842 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
3844 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3846 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
3847 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
3848 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
3851 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
3854 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
3855 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
3856 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
3857 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
3858 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
3859 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
3860 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
3861 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
3864 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
3865 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
3866 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
3867 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3869 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
3870 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
3872 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
3876 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
3877 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
3878 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
3879 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
3880 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
3881 attempting to work them out.
3884 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
3885 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
3886 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
3887 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
3890 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
3891 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
3892 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
3893 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
3894 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
3897 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
3898 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
3905 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
3907 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
3911 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
3912 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3914 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
3915 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
3917 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
3918 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
3919 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
3920 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
3921 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
3924 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
3925 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
3926 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
3929 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
3930 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
3933 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
3934 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
3936 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
3937 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
3940 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
3943 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
3944 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
3945 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
3949 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
3950 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
3951 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
3952 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
3953 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
3954 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
3957 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
3958 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
3960 This work was sponsored by Google.
3963 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
3964 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
3965 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
3966 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
3967 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
3968 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications won't
3969 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
3972 This work was sponsored by Google.
3975 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
3977 This work was sponsored by Google.
3980 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
3981 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
3982 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
3983 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
3985 This work was sponsored by Google.
3988 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
3989 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
3990 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
3991 CRL functionality in future.
3993 This work was sponsored by Google.
3996 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
3998 This work was sponsored by Google.
4001 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
4002 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
4004 This work was sponsored by Google.
4007 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
4008 and URI types are currently supported.
4010 This work was sponsored by Google.
4013 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
4014 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
4015 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
4016 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
4017 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
4018 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
4019 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
4020 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
4022 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
4023 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
4024 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
4026 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
4027 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
4028 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
4029 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
4031 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
4032 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
4033 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
4034 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
4035 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
4036 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
4037 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
4038 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
4040 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
4042 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
4043 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
4044 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
4046 This work was sponsored by Google.
4049 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
4052 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
4053 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
4054 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
4057 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
4058 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
4061 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
4062 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
4065 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
4066 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
4067 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
4068 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
4069 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
4070 content types and variants.
4073 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
4076 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
4077 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
4078 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
4079 files from the associated perl scripts.
4082 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
4083 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
4084 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
4086 *) s390x assembler pack.
4089 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
4093 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
4094 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
4095 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
4096 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
4097 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
4098 to use. For example, specify an option
4100 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
4102 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
4103 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
4104 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
4105 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
4106 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
4107 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
4109 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
4110 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
4111 an internal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
4112 return non-zero for success.
4114 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
4117 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
4118 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
4122 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
4125 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
4126 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
4127 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
4128 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
4129 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
4130 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
4131 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
4132 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
4133 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
4135 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
4136 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
4137 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
4138 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
4139 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
4140 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
4142 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
4143 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
4144 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
4145 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
4146 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
4147 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
4151 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
4154 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
4156 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
4157 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
4158 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
4161 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
4162 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
4165 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
4166 protection in servers so again support should be possible
4167 with no application modification.
4169 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
4170 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
4172 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
4173 or server extensions to be examined.
4175 This work was sponsored by Google.
4178 *) Final changes to avoid use of pointer pointer casts in OpenSSL.
4179 OpenSSL should now compile cleanly on gcc 4.2
4180 [Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>, Steve Henson]
4182 *) Update SSL library to use new EVP_PKEY MAC API. Include generic MAC
4183 support including streaming MAC support: this is required for GOST
4184 ciphersuite support.
4185 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>, Steve Henson]
4187 *) Add option -stream to use PKCS#7 streaming in smime utility. New
4188 function i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream() and PEM_write_PKCS7_bio_stream()
4189 to output in BER and PEM format.
4192 *) Experimental support for use of HMAC via EVP_PKEY interface. This
4193 allows HMAC to be handled via the EVP_DigestSign*() interface. The
4194 EVP_PKEY "key" in this case is the HMAC key, potentially allowing
4195 ENGINE support for HMAC keys which are unextractable. New -mac and
4196 -macopt options to dgst utility.
4199 *) New option -sigopt to dgst utility. Update dgst to use
4200 EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}*. These two changes make it possible to use
4201 alternative signing parameters such as X9.31 or PSS in the dgst
4205 *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
4206 the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
4207 ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
4208 removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
4209 the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
4210 that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
4211 in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
4212 than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
4215 This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
4216 the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
4217 order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
4218 most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
4220 Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
4221 functionality) such that between otherwise identical
4222 ciphersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
4226 *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
4227 arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
4228 to process the rule string. Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
4229 (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
4230 remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
4231 This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
4232 in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
4233 that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
4234 [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
4236 *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
4237 processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
4238 "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
4239 "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
4240 (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
4241 away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
4242 change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
4243 affect applications.) This give us more bits for each of these
4244 categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
4245 AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
4246 and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
4249 Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
4250 0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
4251 out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
4253 With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
4254 so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
4258 *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
4259 Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
4260 larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
4263 *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
4264 it yet and it is largely untested.
4267 *) Add support for the ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
4270 *) Initial incomplete changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL
4271 some compilers (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use. Safestack is
4272 reimplemented. Update ASN1 to avoid use of legacy functions.
4275 *) Win32/64 targets are linked with Winsock2.
4278 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
4279 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
4280 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
4281 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
4284 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
4285 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
4286 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
4287 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
4288 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
4291 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
4292 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
4295 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
4296 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
4297 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
4298 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
4301 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
4302 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
4303 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
4304 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
4307 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
4308 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
4311 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
4312 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
4313 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
4314 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
4317 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
4318 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
4319 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
4322 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
4326 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
4327 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
4330 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
4331 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
4332 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
4336 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
4337 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
4338 to free up any added signature OIDs.
4341 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
4342 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
4343 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
4344 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
4347 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
4348 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
4349 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
4350 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
4351 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
4352 the array representation useful in a more general context.
4355 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
4356 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
4357 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
4358 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
4359 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
4361 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
4362 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
4363 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
4364 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
4365 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
4368 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
4369 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
4370 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
4371 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case:
4373 kECDHr - ECDH cert, signed with RSA
4374 kECDHe - ECDH cert, signed with ECDSA
4375 kECDH - ECDH cert (signed with either RSA or ECDSA)
4376 kEECDH - ephemeral ECDH
4377 ECDH - ECDH cert or ephemeral ECDH
4383 AECDH - anonymous ECDH
4384 EECDH - non-anonymous ephemeral ECDH (equivalent to "kEECDH:-AECDH")
4388 *) Add additional S/MIME capabilities for AES and GOST ciphers if supported.
4389 Use correct micalg parameters depending on digest(s) in signed message.
4392 *) Add engine support for EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. Add functions to process
4393 an ENGINE asn1 method. Support ENGINE lookups in the ASN1 code.
4396 *) Initial engine support for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. New functions to permit
4397 an engine to register a method. Add ENGINE lookups for methods and
4398 functional reference processing.
4401 *) New functions EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify)*. These are enhanced versions of
4402 EVP_{Sign,Verify}* which allow an application to customise the signature
4406 *) New -resign option to smime utility. This adds one or more signers
4407 to an existing PKCS#7 signedData structure. Also -md&nbs