X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=82d1cb18b911c11b0dcf5b58dddd4a3638576b4b;hp=13e1a91c3ff4a5440c7e77ca6b42030a9bc30b7b;hb=73a9f60dd127df9ca05bec7afd835ff7c9bee9ae;hpb=98186eb4e4aef6262ed6b0f499348defa2c26893 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 13e1a91c3f..82d1cb18b9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,14 +5,42 @@ 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 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [in pre-release] + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development] + o + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016] + + o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016] + + o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) + o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305) + o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() + (CVE-2016-6307) + o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment() + (CVE-2016-6308) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016] + + o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license + o "shared" builds are now the default when possible + o Added support for "pipelining" + o Added the AFALG engine + o New threading API implemented o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl o Support for extended master secret o CCM ciphersuites o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More - o Varous libcrypto structures made opaque including: BIGNUM, EVP_MD, - EVP_MD_CTX and HMAC_CTX. + o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque, + including: + BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD, + DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD, + BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, + EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX, + X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE, + X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD o libssl internal structures made opaque o SSLv2 support removed o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed @@ -24,10 +52,54 @@ o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either - relative to the latest relate via the "no-deprecated" Configure + relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option. o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version - to ensure that features deprecated before that version are not exposed. + to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed. + o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication + o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation + directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes + the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively. + o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6. + o New "unified" build system + o New security levels + o Support for scrypt algorithm + o Support for X25519 + o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files + o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF. + o Support for Certificate Transparency + o HKDF support. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016] + + o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107) + o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105) + o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106) + o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109) + o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176) + o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername + callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN. + o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from + the default. + o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [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 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016] + + o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701) + o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197) Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015] @@ -298,7 +370,7 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: o Add gcc 4.2 support. - o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization + o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization for VC++ build. o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly selected at compile time. @@ -381,8 +453,8 @@ o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. - This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing - OpenSSL. + This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within + OpenSSL. o New control functions for the error stack. o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME processing. @@ -398,7 +470,7 @@ o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and AMD64. o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled - by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new + by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new argument form 'enable-xxx'. o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to SHA-1.