5 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
7 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
8 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
9 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
10 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
13 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
14 using the algorithm defined in
15 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
18 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
19 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
21 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
24 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [xx XXX xxxx]
26 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
28 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
29 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
30 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
32 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
36 *) CMS Null dereference
38 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
39 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
40 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
41 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
42 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
45 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
49 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
51 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
52 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
53 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
54 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
55 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
56 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
57 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
58 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
59 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
60 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
61 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
62 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
63 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
64 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
66 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
67 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
68 providing reproducible case.
72 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
73 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
76 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
78 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
80 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
81 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
82 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
83 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
84 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
85 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
87 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
89 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
93 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
95 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
97 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
98 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
99 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
100 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
101 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
102 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
103 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
105 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
109 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
111 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
112 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
113 Denial Of Service attack.
115 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
119 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
120 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
122 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
123 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
124 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
125 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
126 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
127 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
128 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
129 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
130 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
131 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
132 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
133 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed conneciton in a timely
134 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
135 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
136 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
138 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
139 that the connection fails
141 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
142 very little free memory
144 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
145 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
146 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
147 memory to service the multiple requests.
149 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
150 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
151 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
152 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
153 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
155 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
156 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
159 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
160 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
161 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
162 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
163 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
164 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
165 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
168 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
170 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
171 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
172 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
173 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
174 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
178 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
179 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
180 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
183 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
184 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
185 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
186 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
189 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
190 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
194 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
195 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
196 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
197 no-ops and deprecated.
200 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
201 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
203 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
205 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
206 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
207 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
210 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
211 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
212 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
213 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
214 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
215 and the validity of object reference counter.
216 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
218 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
219 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
220 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
221 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
224 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
227 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
228 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
229 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
230 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
232 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
236 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
237 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
240 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
243 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
246 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
247 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
248 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
249 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
250 name and is used as is.
253 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
254 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
255 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
258 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
259 the "no-shared" Configure option.
262 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
263 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
267 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
268 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
269 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
270 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
271 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
272 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
273 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
274 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
278 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
279 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
280 enabled with '--debug' builds.
281 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
283 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
284 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
285 these have been added.
288 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
289 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
290 functions for managing these have been added.
293 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
294 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
295 these have been added.
298 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
299 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
303 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
306 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
309 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
310 it is always safe to #include a header now.
313 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
316 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
319 *) Add support for HKDF.
322 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
325 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
326 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
327 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
328 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
329 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
330 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
331 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
334 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
335 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
336 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
339 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
340 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
341 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
342 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
343 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
344 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
345 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
347 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
348 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
351 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
354 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
355 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
356 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
357 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
358 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
359 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
363 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
364 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
367 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
368 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
369 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
372 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
373 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
374 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
375 implemented by other servers.
378 *) Add X25519 support.
379 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
380 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
381 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The coresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
382 key generation and key derivation.
384 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
388 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
389 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
390 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
391 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
392 seed, even if the seed is configured.
394 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
395 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
396 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
397 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
398 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
399 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
400 that of a valid user.
403 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
404 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
405 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
406 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
408 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
409 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
411 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
412 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
413 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
414 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
416 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
417 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
421 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
422 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
423 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
424 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
425 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
426 of how OpenSSL was configured.
428 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
429 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
430 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
433 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
436 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
437 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
438 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
442 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
443 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
444 old #define's might need to be updated.
445 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
447 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
450 *) New "unified" build system
452 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
453 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
455 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
456 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
457 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
459 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
460 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
461 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
462 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
465 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
466 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
467 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
468 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
469 libraries" in INSTALL.
471 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
474 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
475 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
476 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
477 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
480 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
481 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
483 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
484 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
485 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
486 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
487 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
488 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
489 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
490 have been adapted accordingly.
493 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
497 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
498 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
499 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
500 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
503 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
504 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
505 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
509 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
510 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
513 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
514 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
515 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
517 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
518 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
519 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
521 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
522 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
524 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
525 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
526 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
527 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
530 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
531 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
532 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
533 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
534 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
538 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
539 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
540 straightforward and less interdependent.
542 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
543 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
544 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
546 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
547 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
548 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
550 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
551 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
552 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
553 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
555 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
556 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
559 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
560 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
561 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
562 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
566 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
568 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
570 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
571 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
572 before trying to build now.*
575 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
579 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
581 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
582 the application's responsibility. The application provides
583 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
584 used to authenticate the peer.
586 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
587 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
588 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
589 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
590 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
593 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
594 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
595 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
596 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
597 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
598 or the 1.1.0 releases.
600 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
601 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
602 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
603 support for the deprecated features from the library and
604 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
605 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
606 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
607 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
610 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
611 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
612 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
613 compile with later releases.
615 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
616 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
617 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
618 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
619 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
622 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
623 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
624 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
625 MaxProtcol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
626 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
627 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
628 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
629 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
632 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
635 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
636 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
637 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
640 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
641 include the ec.h header file instead.
644 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
645 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
646 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
649 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
650 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
653 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
654 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
656 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
657 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
658 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
661 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
662 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
663 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
664 an already created structure.
665 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
666 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
667 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
668 for deprecated builds.
671 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
672 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
673 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
674 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
675 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
676 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
677 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
680 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
681 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
682 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
683 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
686 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
687 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
690 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
691 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
694 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
695 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
696 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
697 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
698 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
699 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
700 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
704 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
705 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
706 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
709 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
712 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
714 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
716 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
718 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
719 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
727 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
728 set a mandatory field to NULL.
730 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
731 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
732 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
736 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
739 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
740 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
741 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
742 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
745 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
746 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
747 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
748 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
751 *) Fix no-stdio build.
752 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
753 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
755 *) New testing framework
756 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
757 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
758 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
759 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
760 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
761 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
763 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
765 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
766 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
770 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
771 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
772 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
773 and others were changed. All are now documented.
776 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
778 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
780 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
781 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
783 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
784 original RSA_PSK patch.
787 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
788 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
789 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
790 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
793 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
794 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
797 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
798 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
799 hasn't been working properly for a while.
802 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
803 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
804 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
805 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
809 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
810 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
811 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
812 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
815 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
816 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
817 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
818 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
819 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
820 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
823 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
824 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
825 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
826 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
827 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
828 header file has been removed.
831 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
832 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
835 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
836 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
837 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
839 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
843 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
846 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
850 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
853 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
854 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
855 initial patch which was a great help during development.
858 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
859 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
860 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
861 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
864 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
865 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
866 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
867 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
868 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
869 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
872 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
873 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
874 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
875 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
878 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
879 compatible client hello.
882 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
883 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
884 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
886 *) CA.sh has been removmed; use CA.pl instead.
889 *) Removed old DES API.
892 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
898 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
903 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
906 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
907 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
908 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
909 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
910 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
911 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
912 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
913 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
914 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
915 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
916 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
919 *) Cleaned up dead code
920 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
923 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
924 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
925 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
928 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
929 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
930 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
933 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
934 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
935 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
937 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
938 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
939 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
941 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
943 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
945 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
946 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
947 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
949 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
950 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
952 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
953 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
956 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
957 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
958 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
959 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
961 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
962 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
963 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
964 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
966 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
967 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
968 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
970 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
971 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
974 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
976 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
977 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
979 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
980 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
982 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
985 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
989 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
990 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
991 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
992 algorithms and include tests cases.
995 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
999 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1000 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1003 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1004 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1006 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1007 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1010 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1011 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1015 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1016 sign or verify all in one operation.
1019 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1020 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1021 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1024 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1027 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1030 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1031 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1032 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1033 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1034 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1037 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1041 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1042 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1043 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1046 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1049 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1050 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1053 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1054 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1057 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1058 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1059 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1062 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1063 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1064 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1065 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1066 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1067 requested amount of entropy.
1070 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1071 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1074 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1075 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1076 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1080 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1081 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1082 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1085 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1086 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1087 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1088 will never use XTS mode.
1091 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1092 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1093 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1094 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1095 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1096 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1099 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
1100 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
1101 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
1102 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
1105 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
1106 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
1107 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
1110 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
1113 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
1116 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
1117 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
1120 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
1121 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
1124 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
1125 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
1128 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
1129 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
1130 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
1131 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
1132 and rename any affected symbols.
1135 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
1136 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
1139 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
1140 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
1141 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
1144 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
1147 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
1148 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
1149 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
1152 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
1153 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
1156 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
1157 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
1158 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
1159 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
1160 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
1161 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
1165 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
1166 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
1167 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
1168 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
1169 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
1170 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
1171 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
1172 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
1175 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
1176 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
1179 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
1181 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1182 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1184 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
1185 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
1186 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
1187 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
1188 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
1189 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
1191 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
1192 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
1193 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
1195 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
1197 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
1201 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
1202 Add CMAC pkey methods.
1205 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
1206 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
1207 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
1210 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
1211 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
1212 multi-process servers.
1215 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
1216 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
1217 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
1218 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
1219 RAND_METHOD structure.
1222 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
1223 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
1224 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
1225 whose return value is often ignored.
1228 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
1229 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
1230 validated when establishing a connection.
1231 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
1233 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
1235 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
1237 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
1238 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
1241 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
1242 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
1243 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
1244 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
1245 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
1248 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
1252 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
1254 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
1255 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
1256 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
1259 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
1260 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
1261 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
1262 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
1263 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
1264 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
1266 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1270 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
1272 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
1273 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
1274 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
1275 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
1276 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
1277 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
1278 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
1279 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
1280 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
1281 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
1282 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
1283 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
1284 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
1285 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
1286 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
1287 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
1289 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1293 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
1295 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
1296 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
1297 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
1299 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
1300 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
1301 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
1302 applications are not affected.
1304 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
1310 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
1311 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
1312 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
1314 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1318 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1319 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1322 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
1326 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
1327 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
1330 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
1332 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
1333 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
1334 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
1337 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
1338 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
1339 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
1340 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
1341 will need to explicitly call either of:
1343 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1345 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1347 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
1348 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
1349 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
1350 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
1351 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
1355 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
1357 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
1358 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
1359 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
1362 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
1367 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
1369 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
1371 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1372 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
1373 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
1376 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1377 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1378 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1379 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1380 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1381 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1382 that of a valid user.
1386 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
1388 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
1389 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
1390 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
1391 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
1392 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
1393 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
1394 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
1395 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
1396 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
1397 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
1398 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
1400 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
1401 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
1402 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
1403 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
1404 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
1406 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
1410 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
1412 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
1413 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
1414 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
1416 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
1417 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
1418 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
1419 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
1420 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
1423 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
1424 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
1425 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
1426 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
1427 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
1428 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
1429 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
1430 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
1431 as command line arguments.
1433 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
1434 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
1435 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
1437 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
1441 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
1443 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
1444 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
1445 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
1446 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
1447 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
1449 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
1450 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
1451 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
1452 http://cachebleed.info.
1456 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
1457 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
1458 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
1459 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
1462 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
1463 *) DH small subgroups
1465 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
1466 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
1467 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
1468 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
1469 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
1470 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
1471 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
1472 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
1473 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
1474 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
1476 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
1477 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
1478 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
1479 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
1480 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
1482 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
1483 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
1484 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
1485 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
1487 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
1488 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
1490 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
1494 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
1496 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
1497 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
1498 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
1501 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
1502 and Sebastian Schinzel.
1506 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
1508 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
1510 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
1511 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
1512 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
1513 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
1514 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
1515 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
1516 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
1517 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
1518 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
1519 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
1520 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
1521 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
1523 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
1527 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
1529 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1530 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1531 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
1532 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
1533 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
1534 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
1535 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
1538 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
1542 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
1544 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
1545 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
1546 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
1547 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
1549 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
1554 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1555 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1556 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1557 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1560 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1562 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1564 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
1566 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
1568 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
1569 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
1570 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
1571 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
1572 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
1573 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
1575 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
1579 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
1581 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
1582 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
1586 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
1588 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
1590 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
1591 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
1594 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
1595 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
1596 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
1597 client authentication enabled.
1599 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
1603 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
1605 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
1606 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
1607 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
1610 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
1611 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
1612 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
1613 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
1614 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
1617 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
1618 independently by Hanno Böck.
1622 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
1624 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
1625 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
1626 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1628 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
1629 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
1630 servers are not affected.
1632 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1636 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
1638 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
1639 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
1640 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
1642 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
1646 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
1648 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
1649 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
1650 a double free of the ticket data.
1654 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
1655 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
1656 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
1659 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
1661 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
1663 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
1664 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
1665 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
1667 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
1670 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
1672 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
1674 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
1675 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
1676 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
1677 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
1678 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
1679 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
1680 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
1681 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
1683 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
1687 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
1689 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
1690 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
1691 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
1692 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
1693 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
1694 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
1695 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
1696 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
1699 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
1703 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
1705 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
1706 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
1707 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
1708 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1709 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1710 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1714 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
1716 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1717 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1718 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
1719 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
1720 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1721 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1722 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1724 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
1728 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
1730 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
1731 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
1732 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
1734 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
1735 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
1736 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
1741 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
1743 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
1744 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
1745 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1747 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
1748 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
1749 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
1751 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1755 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
1757 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
1758 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
1759 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
1761 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
1762 (OpenSSL development team).
1766 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
1768 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
1769 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
1770 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
1774 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
1776 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
1777 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
1778 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
1779 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
1780 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
1781 SSL_client_methodv23)
1782 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
1783 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
1785 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
1786 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
1787 output may be predictable.
1789 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
1790 succeed on an unpatched platform:
1792 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
1796 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
1798 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
1799 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
1800 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
1801 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
1802 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
1803 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
1805 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
1810 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
1812 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
1813 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
1815 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
1819 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
1822 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
1824 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
1825 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
1826 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
1827 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
1828 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
1829 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
1832 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
1833 (other platforms pending).
1834 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
1836 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
1837 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
1840 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
1841 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
1842 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
1845 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
1846 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
1847 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
1848 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
1851 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
1852 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
1854 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
1855 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
1856 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
1857 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
1858 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
1860 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
1863 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
1864 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
1865 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
1866 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
1868 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
1870 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
1872 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
1873 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
1874 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
1877 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
1880 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
1881 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
1882 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
1885 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1886 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1889 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1890 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1893 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1894 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1895 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1896 algorithms and include tests cases.
1899 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
1901 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
1903 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
1904 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
1907 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
1908 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
1909 summary of the connection parameters.
1912 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
1913 of connection parameters.
1916 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
1917 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
1919 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
1920 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
1923 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
1926 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
1927 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
1930 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
1931 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
1934 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
1938 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
1939 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
1940 CRLs using the OCSP API.
1943 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
1946 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
1947 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
1950 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
1951 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
1952 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
1956 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
1957 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
1960 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
1964 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
1968 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
1969 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
1970 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
1971 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
1974 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
1975 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
1978 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
1979 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
1980 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
1984 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
1985 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
1986 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
1987 use the certificate.
1990 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
1993 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
1994 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
1995 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
1996 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
1997 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
1998 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
1999 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2001 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2002 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2006 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2007 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2008 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2011 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2012 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2013 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2014 supported signature algorithms.
2017 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2020 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2021 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2022 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2023 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2024 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2025 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2026 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2029 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2030 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2031 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2032 to have similar checks in it.
2034 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2035 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2036 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2037 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2038 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2041 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2042 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2043 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2044 shared signature algorithms.
2047 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2048 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2052 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2053 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2054 it couldn't be removed.
2057 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2058 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2061 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2062 functions. Add manual page.
2063 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2065 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2066 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2070 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2071 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2073 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2074 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2075 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2076 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2080 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2081 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2084 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2085 platform support for Linux and Android.
2088 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2091 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2092 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2093 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2094 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2095 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2098 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2099 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
2100 the new parameter format automatically.
2103 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
2104 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
2107 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
2110 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
2111 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
2112 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
2113 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
2114 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
2117 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
2118 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
2119 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
2120 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
2121 to set list of supported curves.
2124 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
2125 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
2126 to print out received values.
2129 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
2130 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
2131 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
2134 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
2135 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
2138 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
2139 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
2142 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
2146 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
2148 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
2149 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
2150 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
2152 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
2154 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
2155 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
2157 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
2159 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
2160 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
2161 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
2162 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
2166 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
2167 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
2168 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
2169 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
2170 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
2171 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
2175 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
2176 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
2177 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
2178 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
2182 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
2185 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
2186 reporting this issue.
2190 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
2191 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
2192 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
2193 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
2194 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
2195 INRIA or reporting this issue.
2199 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
2200 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
2201 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
2202 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
2203 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
2204 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
2205 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
2210 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
2211 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
2213 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
2214 and can vary with the CTX.
2217 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
2219 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
2220 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
2221 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
2222 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
2223 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
2225 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
2227 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
2228 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
2230 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
2232 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
2233 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
2234 errors for some broken certificates.
2236 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
2238 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
2240 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
2241 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
2243 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
2244 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
2245 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
2246 (negative or with leading zeroes).
2248 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
2249 of the OpenSSL core team.
2254 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
2255 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
2256 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
2257 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
2258 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
2259 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
2260 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
2261 the OpenSSL core team.
2265 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
2266 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
2267 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
2268 sanity and breaks all known clients.
2269 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
2271 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
2272 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
2273 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
2276 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
2277 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
2278 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2279 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
2280 announced in the initial ServerHello.
2282 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
2283 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2284 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
2287 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
2289 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
2291 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
2292 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
2293 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
2294 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
2295 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
2296 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
2297 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
2299 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
2303 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
2305 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
2306 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
2307 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
2308 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
2309 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
2314 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
2316 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
2317 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
2318 configured to send them.
2320 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
2322 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
2323 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
2324 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
2326 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2328 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
2330 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
2331 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
2332 DigestInfo structures.
2334 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
2338 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
2340 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
2341 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
2342 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
2344 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
2345 Group for discovering this issue.
2349 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
2350 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
2351 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
2352 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
2353 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
2355 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
2356 researching this issue.
2360 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
2361 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
2362 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
2363 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
2365 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
2370 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
2371 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2372 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2376 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
2377 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
2378 Denial of Service attack.
2379 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2383 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
2384 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
2385 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2386 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
2391 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
2392 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
2393 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
2395 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
2400 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
2401 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
2402 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
2403 Denial of Service attack.
2405 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
2406 discovering and researching this issue.
2410 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
2411 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
2412 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
2413 output to the attacker.
2415 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
2417 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
2419 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2420 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2421 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2424 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
2426 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
2427 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
2428 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
2430 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
2431 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
2432 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
2434 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
2435 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
2438 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
2440 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
2442 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
2443 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
2444 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
2445 code on a vulnerable client or server.
2447 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
2448 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
2450 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
2451 are subject to a denial of service attack.
2453 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
2454 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
2455 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
2457 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
2459 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2461 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
2462 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
2463 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2465 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
2466 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2468 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
2470 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
2471 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
2474 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
2475 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
2476 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
2477 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2479 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
2480 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
2481 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
2482 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
2484 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
2485 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
2486 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
2488 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
2490 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
2491 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
2492 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
2493 is at least 512 bytes long.
2495 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
2497 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
2499 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
2500 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
2501 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
2504 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
2505 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
2506 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
2509 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
2510 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
2511 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
2512 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
2513 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
2514 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
2515 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
2517 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
2519 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
2520 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
2521 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2523 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
2525 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
2527 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
2528 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
2529 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
2531 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2532 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2533 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
2534 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
2536 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2538 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
2539 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
2540 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
2541 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
2542 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
2546 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
2547 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
2550 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
2551 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2553 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
2554 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
2555 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
2556 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
2557 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
2559 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
2562 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
2566 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
2568 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
2569 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
2571 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
2572 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
2576 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
2577 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
2580 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
2584 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
2586 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
2587 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
2588 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
2589 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disablng
2590 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
2591 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
2592 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
2593 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
2594 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
2595 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
2598 *) In order to ensure interoperabilty SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
2599 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
2600 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
2601 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
2602 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
2603 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
2607 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
2609 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
2610 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
2611 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
2613 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
2614 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
2616 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
2618 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
2621 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
2622 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
2624 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
2625 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
2626 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
2627 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
2628 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
2629 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
2630 Most broken servers should now work.
2631 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
2632 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
2635 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
2638 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
2640 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
2641 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
2644 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
2645 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
2646 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
2647 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
2648 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
2651 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
2652 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
2653 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
2654 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
2655 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
2658 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
2659 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2661 *) Add support for SCTP.
2662 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2664 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2665 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2667 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
2669 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
2670 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
2671 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
2672 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
2673 - s390x: z196 support;
2674 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
2678 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
2679 (removal of unnecessary code)
2680 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
2682 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
2685 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
2688 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
2689 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
2690 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
2692 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2694 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
2695 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
2696 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
2697 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
2698 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
2700 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
2701 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
2702 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
2704 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
2705 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
2706 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
2708 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
2709 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
2711 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2713 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
2714 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
2715 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
2718 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
2719 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
2723 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
2724 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
2725 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
2728 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
2729 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
2730 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
2731 the appropriate parameters.
2734 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
2735 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
2736 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
2737 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
2738 against a number of sample certificates.
2741 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
2742 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
2744 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
2745 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
2747 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
2748 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
2752 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
2756 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
2757 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
2758 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
2759 password based CMS).
2762 *) Session-handling fixes:
2763 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
2764 but also support Session Tickets.
2765 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
2766 presented a ticket with an expired session.
2767 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
2768 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
2769 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
2770 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2772 *) Fix PSK session representation.
2775 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
2777 This work was sponsored by Intel.
2780 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
2781 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
2782 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
2783 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
2784 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
2787 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
2788 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
2791 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
2792 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
2793 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
2796 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
2797 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
2798 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
2799 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
2802 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
2803 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
2804 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
2807 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
2808 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
2810 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
2813 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
2814 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
2817 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2820 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
2821 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
2824 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
2825 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
2828 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
2831 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
2832 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
2833 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
2836 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2839 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2842 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
2843 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
2846 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
2847 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
2848 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
2851 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
2854 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
2858 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
2859 FIPS modules versions.
2862 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
2863 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
2864 until after the certificate request message is received.
2867 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
2868 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
2869 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
2870 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
2873 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
2874 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
2875 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
2876 support yet and no support for client certificates.
2879 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
2880 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
2881 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
2882 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
2883 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
2884 and version checking.
2887 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
2888 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
2889 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
2890 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
2894 [Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
2896 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
2899 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
2900 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
2901 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2903 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
2904 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
2905 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
2908 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
2909 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
2911 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
2912 a few changes are required:
2914 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
2915 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
2916 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
2917 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
2918 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
2921 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
2923 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
2924 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
2925 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
2926 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
2927 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
2928 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
2929 an MMA defence is not necessary.
2930 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
2931 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
2934 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
2935 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
2936 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
2939 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
2941 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
2942 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
2943 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
2944 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
2947 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
2949 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
2950 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
2951 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
2952 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
2953 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
2954 paper describing this attack can be found at:
2955 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
2956 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2957 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2958 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
2959 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
2960 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
2961 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
2963 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
2965 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2967 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
2968 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
2969 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
2970 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2972 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
2973 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
2975 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
2976 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
2977 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
2978 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
2980 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2981 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2983 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
2984 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2986 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
2987 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2989 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
2990 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
2991 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2993 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
2994 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
2995 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
2997 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
2998 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
2999 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
3000 the last update always remained unused).
3001 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3003 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
3004 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
3006 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
3008 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
3009 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
3010 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
3012 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
3013 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
3014 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3016 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
3019 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
3020 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
3021 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
3024 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
3025 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
3027 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
3029 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
3031 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
3033 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
3034 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3036 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
3037 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
3041 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
3043 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
3044 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
3045 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
3048 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
3049 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
3050 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
3053 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
3055 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
3056 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
3057 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
3060 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
3064 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
3066 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
3068 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
3070 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
3072 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
3073 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
3074 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
3077 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
3080 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
3081 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
3082 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
3084 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
3085 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
3086 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
3089 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
3090 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
3093 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
3094 some responders need this.
3097 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
3099 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3101 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
3102 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
3103 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
3106 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
3109 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
3110 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
3111 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
3112 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
3113 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
3114 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
3115 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
3116 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
3119 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
3120 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
3121 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
3122 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3124 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
3125 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
3127 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
3131 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
3132 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
3133 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
3134 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
3135 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
3136 attempting to work them out.
3139 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
3140 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
3141 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
3142 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
3145 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
3146 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
3147 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
3148 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
3149 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
3152 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
3153 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
3160 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
3162 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
3166 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
3167 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3169 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
3170 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
3172 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
3173 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
3174 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
3175 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
3176 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
3179 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
3180 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
3181 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
3184 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
3185 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
3188 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
3189 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
3191 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
3192 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
3195 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
3198 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
3199 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
3200 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
3204 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
3205 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
3206 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
3207 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
3208 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
3209 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
3212 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
3213 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
3215 This work was sponsored by Google.
3218 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
3219 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
3220 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
3221 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
3222 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
3223 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications won't
3224 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
3227 This work was sponsored by Google.
3230 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
3232 This work was sponsored by Google.
3235 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
3236 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
3237 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
3238 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
3240 This work was sponsored by Google.
3243 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
3244 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
3245 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
3246 CRL functionality in future.
3248 This work was sponsored by Google.
3251 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
3253 This work was sponsored by Google.
3256 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
3257 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
3259 This work was sponsored by Google.
3262 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
3263 and URI types are currently supported.
3265 This work was sponsored by Google.
3268 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
3269 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
3270 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
3271 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
3272 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
3273 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
3274 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
3275 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
3277 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
3278 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
3279 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
3281 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
3282 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
3283 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
3284 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
3286 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
3287 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
3288 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
3289 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
3290 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
3291 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
3292 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
3293 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
3295 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
3297 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
3298 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
3299 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
3301 This work was sponsored by Google.
3304 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
3307 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3308 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
3309 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
3312 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
3313 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
3316 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3317 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
3320 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
3321 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
3322 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
3323 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
3324 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
3325 content types and variants.
3328 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
3331 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
3332 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
3333 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
3334 files from the associated perl scripts.
3337 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
3338 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
3339 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3341 *) s390x assembler pack.
3344 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
3348 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
3349 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
3350 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
3351 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
3352 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
3353 to use. For example, specify an option
3355 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
3357 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
3358 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
3359 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
3360 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
3361 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
3362 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
3364 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
3365 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
3366 an interal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
3367 return non-zero for success.
3369 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
3372 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
3373 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
3377 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
3380 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
3381 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
3382 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
3383 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
3384 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
3385 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
3386 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
3387 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
3388 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
3390 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
3391 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
3392 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
3393 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
3394 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
3395 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
3397 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
3398 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
3399 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
3400 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
3401 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
3402 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
3406 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
3409 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3411 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
3412 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
3413 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
3416 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
3417 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
3420 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
3421 protection in servers so again support should be possible
3422 with no application modification.
3424 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
3425 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
3427 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
3428 or server extensions to be examined.
3430 This work was sponsored by Google.
3433 *) Final changes to avoid use of pointer pointer casts in OpenSSL.
3434 OpenSSL should now compile cleanly on gcc 4.2
3435 [Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>, Steve Henson]
3437 *) Update SSL library to use new EVP_PKEY MAC API. Include generic MAC
3438 support including streaming MAC support: this is required for GOST
3439 ciphersuite support.
3440 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>, Steve Henson]
3442 *) Add option -stream to use PKCS#7 streaming in smime utility. New
3443 function i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream() and PEM_write_PKCS7_bio_stream()
3444 to output in BER and PEM format.
3447 *) Experimental support for use of HMAC via EVP_PKEY interface. This
3448 allows HMAC to be handled via the EVP_DigestSign*() interface. The
3449 EVP_PKEY "key" in this case is the HMAC key, potentially allowing
3450 ENGINE support for HMAC keys which are unextractable. New -mac and
3451 -macopt options to dgst utility.
3454 *) New option -sigopt to dgst utility. Update dgst to use
3455 EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}*. These two changes make it possible to use
3456 alternative signing parameters such as X9.31 or PSS in the dgst
3460 *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
3461 the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
3462 ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
3463 removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
3464 the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
3465 that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
3466 in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
3467 than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
3470 This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
3471 the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
3472 order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
3473 most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
3475 Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
3476 funcionality) such that between otherwise identical
3477 cihpersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
3481 *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
3482 arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
3483 to process the rule string. Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
3484 (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
3485 remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
3486 This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
3487 in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
3488 that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
3489 [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
3491 *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
3492 processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
3493 "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
3494 "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
3495 (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
3496 away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
3497 change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
3498 affect applications.) This give us more bits for each of these
3499 categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
3500 AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
3501 and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
3504 Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
3505 0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
3506 out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
3508 With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
3509 so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
3513 *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
3514 Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
3515 larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
3518 *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
3519 it yet and it is largely untested.
3522 *) Add support for the ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
3525 *) Initial incomplete changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL
3526 some compilers (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use. Safestack is
3527 reimplemented. Update ASN1 to avoid use of legacy functions.
3530 *) Win32/64 targets are linked with Winsock2.
3533 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
3534 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
3535 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
3536 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
3539 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
3540 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
3541 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
3542 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
3543 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
3546 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
3547 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
3550 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
3551 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
3552 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
3553 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
3556 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
3557 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
3558 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
3559 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
3562 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
3563 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
3566 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
3567 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
3568 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
3569 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
3572 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
3573 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
3574 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
3577 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
3581 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
3582 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
3585 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
3586 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
3587 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
3591 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
3592 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
3593 to free up any added signature OIDs.
3596 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
3597 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
3598 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
3599 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
3602 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
3603 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
3604 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
3605 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
3606 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
3607 the array representation useful in a more general context.
3610 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
3611 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
3612 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
3613 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
3614 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
3616 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
3617 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
3618 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
3619 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
3620 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
3623 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
3624 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
3625 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
3626 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case: