This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.1m [under development]
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1s and OpenSSL 1.0.1t [under development]
o
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1r and OpenSSL 1.0.1s [1 Mar 2016]
+
+ o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
+ o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
+ (CVE-2016-0800)
+ o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
+ o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
+ (CVE-2016-0798)
+ o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
+ (CVE-2016-0797)
+ o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
+ o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1q and OpenSSL 1.0.1r [28 Jan 2016]
+
+ o Protection for DH small subgroup attacks
+ o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1p and OpenSSL 1.0.1q [3 Dec 2015]
+
+ o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
+ o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
+ o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
+ o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
+ return an error
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1o and OpenSSL 1.0.1p [9 Jul 2015]
+
+ o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
+ o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1n and OpenSSL 1.0.1o [12 Jun 2015]
+
+ o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1m and OpenSSL 1.0.1n [11 Jun 2015]
+
+ o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
+ o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
+ o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
+ o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
+ o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.1m [19 Mar 2015]
+
+ o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
+ o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
+ o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
+ o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
+ o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
+ o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
+ o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
+
Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms