OpenSSL CHANGES
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- Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
+ Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
+
+ *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
+ RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
+ [Emilia Käsper]
+
+ *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
+ DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
+ MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
+ BF_PTR, BF_PTR2
+ IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
+ RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
+ [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
+ [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
+ Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
+ produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
+ crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
+ Text::Template.
+
+ Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
+ Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
+ configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
+ table %config), the target data that comes from the target
+ configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
+ %target).
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
+ --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
+ straightforward and less interdependent.
+
+ --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
+ where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
+ going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
+
+ --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
+ location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
+ managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
+ installed.
+ If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
+ values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
+ be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
+ The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
+
+ Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
+ installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
+ to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
+ See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
+ support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
+ is present).
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
+ configuring.
+ [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
+
+ *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
+ create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
+ before trying to build now.*
+ [Rich Salz]
+
+ *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
+ has changed.
+ [Rich Salz]
+
+ *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
+
+ Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
+ the application's responsibility. The application provides
+ the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
+ used to authenticate the peer.
+
+ The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
+ example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
+ trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
+ of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
+ based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
+ [Viktor Dukhovni]
+
+ *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
+ continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
+ However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
+ source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
+ the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
+ or the 1.1.0 releases.
+
+ In environments in which all applications have been ported to
+ not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
+ should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
+ support for the deprecated features from the library and
+ unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
+ Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
+ argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
+ the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
+ version.
+
+ As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
+ they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
+ accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
+ compile with later releases.
+
+ The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
+ 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
+ versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
+ so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
+ of just the undeprecated features of either release.
+ [Viktor Dukhovni]
+
+ *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
+ It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
+ SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
+ MaxProtcol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
+ protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
+ SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
+ removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
+ client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
+ and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
+ now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
+ ECDSA_SIG format.
+
+ Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
+ include the ec.h header file instead.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
+ ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
+ exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
+ opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
+ were added:
+
+ HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
+ void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
+
+ For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
+ destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
+ EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
+
+ Additional changes:
+ 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
+ HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
+ EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
+ an already created structure.
+ 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
+ destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
+ EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
+ for deprecated builds.
+ [Richard Levitte]
*) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
[Matt Caswell]
+ *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
+ always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
+ exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
+ "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
+ SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
+ curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
*) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
*) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
[Rich Salz]
- *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron and sureware.
- [Matt Caswell]
+ *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
+ and sureware.
+ [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
*) New ASN.1 embed macro.
[Richard Levitte]
+ *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
+ are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
+ Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
+ and others were changed. All are now documented.
+ [Rich Salz]
+
*) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
return an error
[Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
be noticeable when interacting with other software.
+ *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
+ Added a test.
+ [Rich Salz]
+
*) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
[Rich Salz]
+ *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
+ sha256
+ [Rich Salz]
+
*) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
[Matt Caswell]
*) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
- at https://www.openssl.org/docs/misc/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
+ at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
[Matt Caswell]
whose return value is often ignored.
[Steve Henson]
+ Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
+ *) DH small subgroups
+
+ Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
+ primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
+ generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
+ support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
+ application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
+ not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
+ DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
+ handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
+ this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
+ reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
+
+ OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
+ TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
+ reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
+ would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
+ applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
+
+ The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
+ available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
+ only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
+ ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
+
+ Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
+ default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
+ (CVE-2016-0701)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
+
+ A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
+ the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
+ been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
+ SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
+ and Sebastian Schinzel.
+ (CVE-2015-3197)
+ [Viktor Dukhovni]
+
+ Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
+
+ *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
+
+ There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
+ procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
+ against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
+ perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
+ feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
+ deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
+ of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
+ likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
+ additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
+ private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
+ key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
+ default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
+ (CVE-2015-3193)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
+
+ The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
+ dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
+ algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
+ routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
+ used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
+ DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
+ vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
+ authentication.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
+ (CVE-2015-3194)
+ [Stephen Henson]
+
+ *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
+
+ When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
+ memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
+ application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
+ affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
+ libFuzzer.
+ (CVE-2015-3195)
+ [Stephen Henson]
+
+ *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
+ This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
+ though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
+ legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
+ [Emilia Käsper]
+
+ *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
+ return an error
+ [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
+
Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
*) Alternate chains certificate forgery