5 This is a high-level summary of the most important changes.
6 For a full list of changes, see the git commit log; for example,
7 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/ and pick the appropriate
10 Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
12 *) Added a new generic trace API which provides support for enabling
13 instrumentation through trace output. This feature is mainly intended
14 as an aid for developers and is disabled by default. To utilize it,
15 OpenSSL needs to be configured with the `enable-trace` option.
17 If the tracing API is enabled, the application can activate trace output
18 by registering BIOs as trace channels for a number of tracing and debugging
21 The 'openssl' application has been expanded to enable any of the types
22 available via environment variables defined by the user, and serves as
23 one possible example on how to use this functionality.
24 [Richard Levitte & Matthias St. Pierre]
26 *) Added build tests for C++. These are generated files that only do one
27 thing, to include one public OpenSSL head file each. This tests that
28 the public header files can be usefully included in a C++ application.
30 This test isn't enabled by default. It can be enabled with the option
31 'enable-buildtest-c++'.
34 *) Added property based algorithm implementation selection framework to
38 *) Added SCA hardening for modular field inversion in EC_GROUP through
39 a new dedicated field_inv() pointer in EC_METHOD.
40 This also addresses a leakage affecting conversions from projective
41 to affine coordinates.
42 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
44 *) Added EVP_KDF, an EVP layer KDF API, to simplify adding KDF and PRF
45 implementations. This includes an EVP_PKEY to EVP_KDF bridge for
46 those algorithms that were already supported through the EVP_PKEY API
47 (scrypt, TLS1 PRF and HKDF). The low-level KDF functions for PBKDF2
48 and scrypt are now wrappers that call EVP_KDF.
51 *) Build devcrypto engine as a dynamic engine.
54 *) Add keyed BLAKE2 to EVP_MAC.
57 *) Fix a bug in the computation of the endpoint-pair shared secret used
58 by DTLS over SCTP. This breaks interoperability with older versions
59 of OpenSSL like OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.2. There is a runtime
60 switch SSL_MODE_DTLS_SCTP_LABEL_LENGTH_BUG (off by default) enabling
61 interoperability with such broken implementations. However, enabling
62 this switch breaks interoperability with correct implementations.
64 *) Fix a use after free bug in d2i_X509_PUBKEY when overwriting a
65 re-used X509_PUBKEY object if the second PUBKEY is malformed.
68 *) Move strictness check from EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() to EVP_PKEY_asn1_add0().
71 *) Change the license to the Apache License v2.0.
74 *) Change the possible version information given with OPENSSL_API_COMPAT.
75 It may be a pre-3.0.0 style numerical version number as it was defined
76 in 1.1.0, and it may also simply take the major version number.
78 Because of the version numbering of pre-3.0.0 releases, the values 0,
79 1 and 2 are equivalent to 0x00908000L (0.9.8), 0x10000000L (1.0.0) and
80 0x10100000L (1.1.0), respectively.
83 *) Switch to a new version scheme using three numbers MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.
85 o Major releases (indicated by incrementing the MAJOR release number)
86 may introduce incompatible API/ABI changes.
87 o Minor releases (indicated by incrementing the MINOR release number)
88 may introduce new features but retain API/ABI compatibility.
89 o Patch releases (indicated by incrementing the PATCH number)
90 are intended for bug fixes and other improvements of existing
91 features only (like improving performance or adding documentation)
92 and retain API/ABI compatibility.
95 *) Add support for RFC5297 SIV mode (siv128), including AES-SIV.
98 *) Remove the 'dist' target and add a tarball building script. The
99 'dist' target has fallen out of use, and it shouldn't be
100 necessary to configure just to create a source distribution.
103 *) Recreate the OS390-Unix config target. It no longer relies on a
104 special script like it did for OpenSSL pre-1.1.0.
107 *) Instead of having the source directories listed in Configure, add
108 a 'build.info' keyword SUBDIRS to indicate what sub-directories to
112 *) Add GMAC to EVP_MAC.
115 *) Ported the HMAC, CMAC and SipHash EVP_PKEY_METHODs to EVP_MAC.
118 *) Added EVP_MAC, an EVP layer MAC API, to simplify adding MAC
119 implementations. This includes a generic EVP_PKEY to EVP_MAC bridge,
120 to facilitate the continued use of MACs through raw private keys in
121 functionality such as EVP_DigestSign* and EVP_DigestVerify*.
124 *) Deprecate ECDH_KDF_X9_62() and mark its replacement as internal. Users
125 should use the EVP interface instead (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_ecdh_kdf_type).
128 *) Added EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_63 and ecdh_KDF_X9_63() as replacements for
129 the EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_62 KDF type and ECDH_KDF_X9_62(). The old names
130 are retained for backwards compatibility.
133 *) AES-XTS mode now enforces that its two keys are different to mitigate
134 the attacked described in "Efficient Instantiations of Tweakable
135 Blockciphers and Refinements to Modes OCB and PMAC" by Phillip Rogaway.
136 Details of this attack can be obtained from:
137 http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Erogaway/papers/offsets.pdf
140 *) Rename the object files, i.e. give them other names than in previous
141 versions. Their names now include the name of the final product, as
142 well as its type mnemonic (bin, lib, shlib).
145 *) Added new option for 'openssl list', '-objects', which will display the
146 list of built in objects, i.e. OIDs with names.
149 *) Added support for Linux Kernel TLS data-path. The Linux Kernel data-path
150 improves application performance by removing data copies and providing
151 applications with zero-copy system calls such as sendfile and splice.
154 Changes between 1.1.1a and 1.1.1b [xx XXX xxxx]
156 *) Change the info callback signals for the start and end of a post-handshake
157 message exchange in TLSv1.3. In 1.1.1/1.1.1a we used SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_START
158 and SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_DONE. Experience has shown that many applications get
159 confused by this and assume that a TLSv1.2 renegotiation has started. This
160 can break KeyUpdate handling. Instead we no longer signal the start and end
161 of a post handshake message exchange (although the messages themselves are
162 still signalled). This could break some applications that were expecting
163 the old signals. However without this KeyUpdate is not usable for many
167 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
169 *) Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation
171 The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
172 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
173 algorithm to recover the private key.
175 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 16th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
179 *) Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation
181 The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
182 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
183 algorithm to recover the private key.
185 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 25th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
189 *) Fixed the issue that RAND_add()/RAND_seed() silently discards random input
190 if its length exceeds 4096 bytes. The limit has been raised to a buffer size
191 of two gigabytes and the error handling improved.
193 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Dr. Falko Strenzke. It has been
194 categorized as a normal bug, not a security issue, because the DRBG reseeds
195 automatically and is fully functional even without additional randomness
196 provided by the application.
198 Changes between 1.1.0i and 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
200 *) Add a new ClientHello callback. Provides a callback interface that gives
201 the application the ability to adjust the nascent SSL object at the
202 earliest stage of ClientHello processing, immediately after extensions have
203 been collected but before they have been processed. In particular, this
204 callback can adjust the supported TLS versions in response to the contents
208 *) Add SM2 base algorithm support.
211 *) s390x assembly pack: add (improved) hardware-support for the following
212 cryptographic primitives: sha3, shake, aes-gcm, aes-ccm, aes-ctr, aes-ofb,
213 aes-cfb/cfb8, aes-ecb.
216 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
217 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
218 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
221 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
222 step for prime curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
223 differential addition-and-doubling in homogeneous projective coordinates
224 from Izu-Takagi "A fast parallel elliptic curve multiplication resistant
225 against side channel attacks" and Brier-Joye "Weierstrass Elliptic Curves
226 and Side-Channel Attacks" Eq. (8) for y-coordinate recovery, modified
227 to work in projective coordinates.
228 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
230 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
231 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
232 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
233 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
235 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
237 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
240 *) The 'tsget' script is renamed to 'tsget.pl', to avoid confusion when
241 moving between systems, and to avoid confusion when a Windows build is
242 done with mingw vs with MSVC. For POSIX installs, there's still a
243 symlink or copy named 'tsget' to avoid that confusion as well.
246 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
247 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
250 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
251 step for binary curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
252 differential addition-and-doubling in mixed Lopez-Dahab projective
253 coordinates, modified to independently blind the operands.
254 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
256 *) Add a scaffold to optionally enhance the Montgomery ladder implementation
257 for `ec_scalar_mul_ladder` (formerly `ec_mul_consttime`) allowing
258 EC_METHODs to implement their own specialized "ladder step", to take
259 advantage of more favorable coordinate systems or more efficient
260 differential addition-and-doubling algorithms.
261 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
263 *) Modified the random device based seed sources to keep the relevant
264 file descriptors open rather than reopening them on each access.
265 This allows such sources to operate in a chroot() jail without
266 the associated device nodes being available. This behaviour can be
267 controlled using RAND_keep_random_devices_open().
270 *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
271 performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
272 security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
276 *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
277 handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
278 different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
279 mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
280 doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
281 multi-version installation is managed.
284 *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
285 EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
286 mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
287 When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
288 EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
291 *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
292 coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
293 chosen point SCA attacks.
294 [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
296 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
297 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
300 *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
301 length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
302 a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
305 *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
306 I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
307 can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
308 Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
309 TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
310 around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
311 It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
312 SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
313 SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
316 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
317 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
320 *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
321 pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
324 *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
325 binary and prime elliptic curves.
328 *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
329 constant time fixed point multiplication.
332 *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
333 defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
334 when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
335 in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
336 ECDH derive operations).
337 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida GarcÃa,
340 *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
343 *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
344 randomness from the system.
345 [Matthias St. Pierre]
347 *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
350 *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
351 loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
354 *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
357 *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
358 [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
360 *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
363 *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
364 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
365 SSL_set_ciphersuites()
368 *) Memory allocation failures consistenly add an error to the error
372 *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
373 in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
376 *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
379 *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
380 for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
381 [Matthias St. Pierre]
383 *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
384 for the license change).
387 *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
388 SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
391 *) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
392 configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
393 below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
394 In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
395 would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
396 configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
397 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
400 *) On POSIX (BSD, Linux, ...) systems the ocsp(1) command running
401 in responder mode now supports the new "-multi" option, which
402 spawns the specified number of child processes to handle OCSP
403 requests. The "-timeout" option now also limits the OCSP
404 responder's patience to wait to receive the full client request
405 on a newly accepted connection. Child processes are respawned
406 as needed, and the CA index file is automatically reloaded
407 when changed. This makes it possible to run the "ocsp" responder
408 as a long-running service, making the OpenSSL CA somewhat more
409 feature-complete. In this mode, most diagnostic messages logged
410 after entering the event loop are logged via syslog(3) rather than
414 *) Added support for X448 and Ed448. Heavily based on original work by
418 *) Extend OSSL_STORE with capabilities to search and to narrow the set of
419 objects loaded. This adds the functions OSSL_STORE_expect() and
420 OSSL_STORE_find() as well as needed tools to construct searches and
421 get the search data out of them.
424 *) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
425 version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
426 that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
427 https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
430 *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
432 The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
433 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially
434 a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0
435 object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator
436 using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself
437 automatically using trusted system entropy sources.
439 Some of its new features are:
440 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
441 o The default RAND method makes use of a DRBG.
442 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
443 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
444 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
445 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
447 [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
449 *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
450 so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script
451 to display all sorts of configuration data.
454 *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure.
457 *) Added SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 algorithm support.
460 *) The last traces of Netware support, first removed in 1.1.0, have
464 *) Get rid of Makefile.shared, and in the process, make the processing
465 of certain files (rc.obj, or the .def/.map/.opt files produced from
466 the ordinal files) more visible and hopefully easier to trace and
467 debug (or make silent).
470 *) Make it possible to have environment variable assignments as
471 arguments to config / Configure.
474 *) Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support.
477 *) Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
478 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
479 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
480 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
482 *) Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
483 as documented in RFC6066.
484 Based on a patch from Tomasz Moń
485 [Filipe Raimundo da Silva]
487 *) Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
488 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
489 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
490 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
492 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
493 original author does not agree with the license change.
496 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
499 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
500 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
503 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
504 without clearing the errors.
507 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
508 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
509 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
515 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
516 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
517 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
520 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
521 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
522 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
523 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
526 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
527 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
528 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
529 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
530 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
531 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
532 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
535 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
536 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
537 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
538 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
541 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
542 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
543 error code calls like this:
545 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
547 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
548 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
550 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
552 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
555 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
556 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
557 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
558 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
561 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
562 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
563 than just the call where this user data is passed.
566 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
568 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
570 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
571 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
572 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
573 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
574 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
575 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
576 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
580 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
581 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
582 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
586 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
587 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
588 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
590 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
594 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
595 platform rather than 'mingw'.
598 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
599 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
600 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
601 certificates and CRLs.
604 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
605 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
608 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
609 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
612 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
613 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
614 which is the minimum version we support.
617 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
618 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
619 are no longer allowed.
622 *) Add support for ARIA
625 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
626 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
627 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
631 *) Add support for SipHash
634 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
635 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
636 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
637 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
640 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
641 using the algorithm defined in
642 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
645 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
646 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
648 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
651 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
652 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
656 Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
658 *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
660 During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
661 malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
662 cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
663 key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
664 could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
666 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
670 *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
672 The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
673 a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
674 mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
675 recover the private key.
677 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
678 Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
682 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
683 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
684 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
687 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
688 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
691 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
692 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
693 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
694 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
696 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
698 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
701 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
702 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
705 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
706 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
709 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
710 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
711 are no longer allowed.
714 *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
716 Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
717 through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
718 signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
719 line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
720 at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
721 some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
722 and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
723 could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
724 OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
725 signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
726 OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
727 and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
728 the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
731 Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
733 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
735 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
736 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
737 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
738 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
739 so this is considered safe.
741 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
746 *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
748 Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
749 effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
750 byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
751 authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
752 security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
753 HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
755 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
760 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
761 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
762 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
763 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
766 *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
768 OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
769 (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
770 changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
771 SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
772 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
774 Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
775 using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
776 accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
779 *) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
783 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
785 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
786 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
787 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
788 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
789 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
790 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
791 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
792 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
793 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
794 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
796 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
797 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
799 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
800 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
804 Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
806 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
808 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
809 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
810 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
811 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
812 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
813 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
814 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
815 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
816 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
817 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
818 key that is shared between multiple clients.
820 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
821 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
823 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
827 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
829 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
830 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
831 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
833 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
837 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
839 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
840 platform rather than 'mingw'.
843 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
844 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
845 which is the minimum version we support.
848 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
850 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
852 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
853 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
854 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
855 and servers are affected.
857 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
861 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
863 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
865 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
866 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
867 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
869 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
873 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
875 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
876 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
877 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
880 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
884 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
886 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
887 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
888 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
889 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
890 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
891 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
892 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
893 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
894 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
895 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
896 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
897 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
898 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
900 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
904 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
906 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
908 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
909 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
910 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
912 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
916 *) CMS Null dereference
918 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
919 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
920 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
921 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
922 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
925 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
929 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
931 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
932 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
933 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
934 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
935 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
936 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
937 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
938 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
939 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
940 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
941 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
942 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
943 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
944 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
946 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
947 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
948 providing reproducible case.
952 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
953 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
956 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
958 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
960 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
961 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
962 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
963 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
964 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
965 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
967 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
969 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
973 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
975 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
977 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
978 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
979 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
980 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
981 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
982 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
983 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
985 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
989 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
991 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
992 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
993 Denial Of Service attack.
995 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
999 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
1000 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
1002 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
1003 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
1004 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
1005 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
1006 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
1007 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
1008 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
1009 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
1010 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
1011 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
1012 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
1013 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
1014 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
1015 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
1016 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
1018 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
1019 that the connection fails
1021 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
1022 very little free memory
1024 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
1025 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
1026 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
1027 memory to service the multiple requests.
1029 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
1030 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
1031 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
1032 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
1033 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
1035 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
1036 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
1039 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
1040 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
1041 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
1042 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
1043 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
1044 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
1045 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
1048 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
1050 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
1051 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
1052 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
1053 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
1054 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
1058 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
1059 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
1060 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
1063 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
1064 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
1065 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
1066 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
1069 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
1070 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
1074 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
1075 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
1076 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
1077 no-ops and deprecated.
1080 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
1081 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
1083 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
1085 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
1086 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
1087 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
1090 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
1091 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
1092 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
1093 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
1094 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
1095 and the validity of object reference counter.
1096 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
1098 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
1099 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
1100 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
1101 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
1104 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
1107 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
1108 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
1109 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
1110 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
1112 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
1116 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
1117 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
1120 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
1123 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
1126 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
1127 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
1128 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
1129 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
1130 name and is used as is.
1133 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
1134 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
1135 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
1138 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
1139 the "no-shared" Configure option.
1142 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
1143 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
1147 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
1148 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
1149 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
1150 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
1151 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
1152 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
1153 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
1154 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
1155 COMP_zlib_cleanup().
1158 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
1159 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
1160 enabled with '--debug' builds.
1161 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
1163 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
1164 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1165 these have been added.
1168 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
1169 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
1170 functions for managing these have been added.
1173 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
1174 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1175 these have been added.
1178 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
1179 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
1183 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
1186 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
1189 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
1190 it is always safe to #include a header now.
1193 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
1196 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
1199 *) Add support for HKDF.
1200 [Alessandro Ghedini]
1202 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
1205 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
1206 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
1207 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
1208 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
1209 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
1210 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
1211 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
1214 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
1215 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
1216 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
1219 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
1220 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
1221 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
1222 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
1223 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
1224 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
1225 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
1227 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1228 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1231 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
1234 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
1235 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
1236 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
1237 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
1238 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
1239 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
1243 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
1244 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
1247 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
1248 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
1249 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
1252 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
1253 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
1254 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
1255 implemented by other servers.
1258 *) Add X25519 support.
1259 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
1260 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
1261 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
1262 key generation and key derivation.
1264 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
1268 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
1269 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1270 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
1271 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
1272 seed, even if the seed is configured.
1274 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1275 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1276 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1277 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1278 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1279 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1280 that of a valid user.
1283 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
1284 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
1285 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
1286 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
1288 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
1289 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
1291 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
1292 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
1293 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
1294 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
1296 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
1297 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
1301 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
1302 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
1303 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
1304 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
1305 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
1306 of how OpenSSL was configured.
1308 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
1309 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
1310 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
1313 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
1316 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
1317 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
1318 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
1322 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
1323 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
1324 old #define's might need to be updated.
1325 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
1327 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
1330 *) New "unified" build system
1332 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
1333 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
1335 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
1336 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
1337 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
1339 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
1340 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
1341 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
1342 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
1345 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
1346 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
1347 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
1348 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
1349 libraries" in INSTALL.
1351 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
1354 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
1355 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
1356 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
1357 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
1360 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
1361 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
1363 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
1364 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
1365 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
1366 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
1367 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
1368 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
1369 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
1370 have been adapted accordingly.
1373 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
1377 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
1378 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
1379 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
1380 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
1383 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
1384 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
1385 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
1389 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
1390 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
1393 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
1394 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
1395 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
1397 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
1398 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
1399 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
1401 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
1402 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
1404 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
1405 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
1406 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
1407 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
1410 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
1411 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
1412 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
1413 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
1414 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
1418 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
1419 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
1420 straightforward and less interdependent.
1422 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
1423 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
1424 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
1426 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
1427 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
1428 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
1430 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
1431 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
1432 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
1433 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
1435 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
1436 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
1439 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
1440 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
1441 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
1442 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
1446 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
1448 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
1450 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
1451 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
1452 before trying to build now.*
1455 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
1459 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
1461 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
1462 the application's responsibility. The application provides
1463 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
1464 used to authenticate the peer.
1466 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
1467 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
1468 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
1469 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
1470 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
1473 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
1474 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
1475 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
1476 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
1477 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
1478 or the 1.1.0 releases.
1480 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
1481 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
1482 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
1483 support for the deprecated features from the library and
1484 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
1485 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
1486 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
1487 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
1490 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
1491 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
1492 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
1493 compile with later releases.
1495 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
1496 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
1497 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
1498 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
1499 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
1502 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
1503 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
1504 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
1505 MaxProtocol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
1506 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
1507 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
1508 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
1509 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
1512 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
1515 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
1516 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
1517 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
1520 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
1521 include the ec.h header file instead.
1524 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
1525 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
1526 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
1529 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
1530 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
1533 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
1534 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
1536 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
1537 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
1538 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
1541 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
1542 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
1543 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
1544 an already created structure.
1545 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
1546 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
1547 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
1548 for deprecated builds.
1551 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
1552 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
1553 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
1554 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
1555 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
1556 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
1557 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
1560 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
1561 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
1562 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
1563 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
1566 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
1567 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
1570 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
1571 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
1574 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
1575 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
1576 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
1577 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
1578 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
1579 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
1580 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
1584 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
1585 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
1586 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
1589 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
1592 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
1594 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
1596 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
1598 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
1599 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
1607 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
1608 set a mandatory field to NULL.
1610 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
1611 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
1612 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
1616 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
1619 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
1620 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
1621 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
1622 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
1625 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1626 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1627 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1628 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1631 *) Fix no-stdio build.
1632 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
1633 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
1635 *) New testing framework
1636 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
1637 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
1638 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
1639 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
1640 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
1641 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
1643 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
1645 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
1646 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
1650 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
1651 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
1652 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
1653 and others were changed. All are now documented.
1656 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1658 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1660 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
1661 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1663 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1664 original RSA_PSK patch.
1667 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1668 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1669 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1670 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1673 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1674 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1677 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1678 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1679 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1682 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1683 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1684 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1685 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1689 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1690 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1691 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1692 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1695 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1696 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1697 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1698 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1699 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1700 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1703 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1704 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1705 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1706 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1707 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1708 header file has been removed.
1711 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1712 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1715 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1716 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1717 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1719 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1723 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1726 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1730 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1733 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1734 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1735 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1738 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1739 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1740 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1741 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1744 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1745 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1746 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1747 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1748 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1749 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1752 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1753 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1754 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1755 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1758 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1759 compatible client hello.
1762 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1763 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1764 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1766 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1769 *) Removed old DES API.
1772 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1778 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1783 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1786 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1787 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1788 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1789 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1790 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1791 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1792 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1793 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1794 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1795 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1796 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1799 *) Cleaned up dead code
1800 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1803 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1804 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1805 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1808 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1809 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1810 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1813 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1814 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1815 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1817 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1818 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1819 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1821 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1823 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1825 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1826 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1827 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1829 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1830 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1832 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1833 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1836 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1837 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1838 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1839 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1841 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1842 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1843 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1844 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1846 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1847 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1848 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1850 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1851 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1854 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1856 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1857 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1859 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1860 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1862 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1865 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1869 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1870 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1871 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1872 algorithms and include tests cases.
1875 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1879 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1880 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1883 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1884 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1886 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1887 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1890 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1891 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1895 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1896 sign or verify all in one operation.
1899 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1900 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1901 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1904 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1907 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1910 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1911 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1912 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1913 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1914 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1917 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1921 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1922 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1923 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1926 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1929 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1930 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1933 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1934 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1937 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1938 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1939 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1942 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1943 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1944 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1945 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1946 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1947 requested amount of entropy.
1950 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1951 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1954 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1955 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1956 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1960 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1961 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1962 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1965 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1966 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1967 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1968 will never use XTS mode.
1971 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1972 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1973 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1974 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1975 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1976 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1979 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
1980 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
1981 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
1982 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
1985 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
1986 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
1987 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
1990 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
1993 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
1996 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
1997 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
2000 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
2001 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
2004 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
2005 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
2008 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
2009 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
2010 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
2011 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
2012 and rename any affected symbols.
2015 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
2016 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
2019 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
2020 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
2021 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
2024 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2027 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
2028 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
2029 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
2032 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
2033 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
2036 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
2037 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
2038 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
2039 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
2040 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
2041 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
2045 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
2046 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
2047 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
2048 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
2049 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
2050 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
2051 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
2052 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
2055 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
2056 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
2059 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
2061 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2062 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2064 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
2065 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
2066 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
2067 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
2068 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
2069 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
2071 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
2072 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
2073 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
2075 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
2077 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
2081 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
2082 Add CMAC pkey methods.
2085 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
2086 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
2087 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
2090 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
2091 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
2092 multi-process servers.
2095 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
2096 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
2097 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
2098 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
2099 RAND_METHOD structure.
2102 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
2103 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
2104 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
2105 whose return value is often ignored.
2108 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
2109 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
2110 validated when establishing a connection.
2111 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
2113 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
2115 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
2117 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
2118 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
2121 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
2122 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
2123 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
2124 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
2125 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
2128 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
2132 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
2134 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
2135 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
2136 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
2139 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
2140 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
2141 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
2142 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
2143 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
2144 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
2146 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2150 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
2152 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
2153 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
2154 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
2155 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
2156 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
2157 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
2158 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
2159 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
2160 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
2161 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
2162 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
2163 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
2164 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
2165 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
2166 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
2167 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
2169 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2173 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
2175 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
2176 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
2177 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
2179 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
2180 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
2181 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
2182 applications are not affected.
2184 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
2190 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
2191 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
2192 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
2194 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2198 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
2199 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
2202 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
2206 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
2207 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
2210 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
2212 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
2213 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
2214 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
2217 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
2218 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
2219 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
2220 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
2221 will need to explicitly call either of:
2223 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2225 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2227 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
2228 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
2229 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
2230 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
2231 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
2235 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
2237 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
2238 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
2239 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
2242 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
2247 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
2249 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
2251 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
2252 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
2253 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
2256 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
2257 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
2258 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
2259 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
2260 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
2261 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
2262 that of a valid user.
2266 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
2268 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
2269 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
2270 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
2271 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
2272 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
2273 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
2274 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
2275 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
2276 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
2277 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
2278 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
2280 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
2281 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
2282 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
2283 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
2284 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
2286 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
2290 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
2292 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
2293 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
2294 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
2296 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
2297 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
2298 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
2299 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
2300 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
2303 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
2304 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
2305 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
2306 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
2307 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
2308 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
2309 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
2310 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
2311 as command line arguments.
2313 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
2314 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
2315 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
2317 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
2321 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
2323 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
2324 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
2325 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
2326 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
2327 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
2329 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
2330 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
2331 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
2332 http://cachebleed.info.
2336 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
2337 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
2338 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
2339 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
2342 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
2343 *) DH small subgroups
2345 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
2346 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
2347 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
2348 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
2349 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
2350 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
2351 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
2352 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
2353 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
2354 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
2356 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
2357 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
2358 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
2359 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
2360 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
2362 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
2363 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
2364 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
2365 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
2367 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
2368 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
2370 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
2374 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
2376 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
2377 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
2378 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
2381 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
2382 and Sebastian Schinzel.
2386 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
2388 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
2390 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
2391 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
2392 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
2393 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
2394 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
2395 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
2396 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
2397 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
2398 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
2399 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
2400 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
2401 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
2403 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
2407 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
2409 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2410 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2411 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
2412 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
2413 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
2414 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
2415 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
2418 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
2422 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
2424 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
2425 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
2426 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
2427 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
2429 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
2434 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
2435 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
2436 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
2437 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
2440 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
2442 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
2444 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
2446 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
2448 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
2449 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
2450 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
2451 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
2452 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
2453 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
2455 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
2459 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
2461 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
2462 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
2466 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
2468 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
2470 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
2471 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
2474 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
2475 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
2476 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
2477 client authentication enabled.
2479 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
2483 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
2485 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
2486 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
2487 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
2490 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
2491 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
2492 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
2493 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
2494 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
2497 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
2498 independently by Hanno Böck.
2502 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
2504 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
2505 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
2506 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2508 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
2509 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
2510 servers are not affected.
2512 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2516 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
2518 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
2519 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
2520 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
2522 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
2526 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
2528 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
2529 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
2530 a double free of the ticket data.
2534 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
2535 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
2536 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
2539 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
2541 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
2543 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
2544 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
2545 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
2547 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
2550 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
2552 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
2554 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
2555 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
2556 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
2557 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
2558 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
2559 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
2560 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
2561 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
2563 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
2567 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
2569 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
2570 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
2571 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
2572 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
2573 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
2574 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
2575 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
2576 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
2579 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
2583 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
2585 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
2586 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
2587 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
2588 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2589 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2590 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2594 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
2596 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2597 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2598 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
2599 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
2600 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2601 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2602 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2604 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
2608 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
2610 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
2611 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
2612 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
2614 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
2615 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
2616 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
2621 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
2623 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
2624 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
2625 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2627 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
2628 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
2629 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
2631 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2635 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
2637 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
2638 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
2639 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
2641 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
2642 (OpenSSL development team).
2646 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
2648 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
2649 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
2650 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
2654 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
2656 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
2657 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
2658 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
2659 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
2660 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
2661 SSL_client_methodv23)
2662 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2663 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2665 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2666 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2667 output may be predictable.
2669 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2670 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2672 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2676 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2678 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2679 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2680 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2681 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2682 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2683 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2685 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2690 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2692 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2693 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2695 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2699 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2702 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2704 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2705 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2706 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2707 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2708 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2709 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2712 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2713 (other platforms pending).
2714 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2716 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2717 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2720 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2721 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2722 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2725 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2726 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2727 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2728 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2731 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2732 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2734 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2735 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2736 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2737 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2738 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2740 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2743 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2744 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2745 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2746 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2748 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2750 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2752 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2753 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2754 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2757 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2760 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2761 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2762 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2765 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2766 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2769 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2770 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2773 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2774 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2775 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2776 algorithms and include tests cases.
2779 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2781 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2783 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2784 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2787 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2788 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2789 summary of the connection parameters.
2792 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2793 of connection parameters.
2796 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2797 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2799 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2800 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2803 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2806 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2807 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2810 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2811 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2814 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2818 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2819 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2820 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2823 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2826 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2827 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2830 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2831 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2832 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2836 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2837 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2840 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2844 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2848 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2849 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2850 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2851 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2854 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2855 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2858 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2859 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2860 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2864 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2865 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2866 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2867 use the certificate.
2870 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2873 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2874 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2875 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2876 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2877 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2878 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2879 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2881 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2882 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2886 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2887 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2888 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2891 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2892 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2893 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2894 supported signature algorithms.
2897 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2900 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2901 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2902 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2903 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2904 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2905 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2906 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2909 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2910 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2911 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2912 to have similar checks in it.
2914 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2915 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2916 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2917 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2918 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2921 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2922 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2923 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2924 shared signature algorithms.
2927 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2928 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2932 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2933 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2934 it couldn't be removed.
2937 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2938 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2941 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2942 functions. Add manual page.
2943 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2945 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2946 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2950 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2951 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2953 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2954 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2955 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2956 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2960 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2961 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2964 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2965 platform support for Linux and Android.
2968 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2971 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2972 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2973 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2974 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2975 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2978 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2979 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
2980 the new parameter format automatically.
2983 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
2984 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
2987 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
2990 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
2991 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
2992 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
2993 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
2994 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
2997 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
2998 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
2999 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
3000 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
3001 to set list of supported curves.
3004 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
3005 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
3006 to print out received values.
3009 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
3010 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
3011 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
3014 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
3015 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
3018 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
3019 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
3022 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
3026 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
3028 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
3029 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
3030 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
3032 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
3034 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
3035 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
3037 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
3039 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
3040 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
3041 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
3042 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
3046 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
3047 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
3048 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
3049 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
3050 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
3051 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
3055 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
3056 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
3057 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
3058 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
3062 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
3065 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
3066 reporting this issue.
3070 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
3071 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
3072 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
3073 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
3074 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
3075 INRIA or reporting this issue.
3079 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
3080 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
3081 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
3082 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
3083 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
3084 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
3085 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
3090 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
3091 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
3093 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
3094 and can vary with the CTX.
3097 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
3099 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
3100 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
3101 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
3102 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
3103 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
3105 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
3107 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
3108 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
3110 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
3112 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
3113 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
3114 errors for some broken certificates.
3116 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
3118 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
3120 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
3121 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
3123 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
3124 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
3125 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
3126 (negative or with leading zeroes).
3128 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
3129 of the OpenSSL core team.
3134 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
3135 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
3136 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
3137 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
3138 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
3139 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
3140 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
3141 the OpenSSL core team.
3145 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
3146 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
3147 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
3148 sanity and breaks all known clients.
3149 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
3151 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
3152 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
3153 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
3156 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
3157 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
3158 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3159 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
3160 announced in the initial ServerHello.
3162 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
3163 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3164 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
3167 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
3169 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
3171 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
3172 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
3173 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
3174 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
3175 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
3176 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
3177 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
3179 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
3183 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
3185 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
3186 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
3187 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
3188 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
3189 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
3194 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
3196 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
3197 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
3198 configured to send them.
3200 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
3202 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
3203 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
3204 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
3206 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3208 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
3210 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
3211 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
3212 DigestInfo structures.
3214 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
3218 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
3220 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
3221 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
3222 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
3224 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
3225 Group for discovering this issue.
3229 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
3230 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
3231 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
3232 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
3233 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
3235 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
3236 researching this issue.
3240 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
3241 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
3242 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
3243 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
3245 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
3250 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
3251 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3252 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3256 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
3257 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
3258 Denial of Service attack.
3259 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3263 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
3264 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
3265 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3266 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
3271 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
3272 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
3273 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
3275 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
3280 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
3281 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
3282 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
3283 Denial of Service attack.
3285 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
3286 discovering and researching this issue.
3290 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
3291 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
3292 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
3293 output to the attacker.
3295 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
3297 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
3299 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
3300 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
3301 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
3304 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
3306 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
3307 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
3308 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
3310 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
3311 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
3312 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
3314 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
3315 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
3318 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
3320 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
3322 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
3323 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
3324 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
3325 code on a vulnerable client or server.
3327 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
3328 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
3330 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
3331 are subject to a denial of service attack.
3333 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
3334 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
3335 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
3337 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
3339 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3341 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
3342 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
3343 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3345 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
3346 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3348 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
3350 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
3351 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
3354 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
3355 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
3356 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
3357 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3359 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
3360 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
3361 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
3362 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
3364 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
3365 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
3366 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
3368 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
3370 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
3371 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
3372 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
3373 is at least 512 bytes long.
3375 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
3377 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
3379 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
3380 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
3381 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
3384 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
3385 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
3386 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
3389 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
3390 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
3391 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
3392 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
3393 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
3394 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
3395 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
3397 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
3399 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
3400 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
3401 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3403 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
3405 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
3407 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
3408 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
3409 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
3411 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3412 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3413 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
3414 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
3416 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3418 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
3419 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
3420 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
3421 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
3422 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
3426 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
3427 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
3430 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
3431 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3433 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
3434 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
3435 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
3436 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
3437 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
3439 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
3442 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
3446 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
3448 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
3449 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
3451 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
3452 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
3456 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
3457 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
3460 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
3464 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
3466 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
3467 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
3468 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
3469 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disabling
3470 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
3471 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
3472 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
3473 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
3474 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
3475 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
3478 *) In order to ensure interoperability SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
3479 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
3480 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
3481 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
3482 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
3483 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
3487 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
3489 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
3490 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
3491 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
3493 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
3494 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
3496 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
3498 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
3501 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
3502 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
3504 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
3505 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
3506 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
3507 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
3508 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
3509 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
3510 Most broken servers should now work.
3511 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
3512 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
3515 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
3518 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
3520 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
3521 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
3524 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
3525 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
3526 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
3527 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
3528 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
3531 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
3532 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
3533 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
3534 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
3535 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
3538 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
3539 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3541 *) Add support for SCTP.
3542 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3544 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3545 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3547 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
3549 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
3550 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
3551 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
3552 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
3553 - s390x: z196 support;
3554 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
3558 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
3559 (removal of unnecessary code)
3560 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
3562 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
3565 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
3568 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
3569 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
3570 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
3572 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3574 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
3575 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
3576 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
3577 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
3578 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
3580 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
3581 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
3582 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
3584 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
3585 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
3586 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
3588 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
3589 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
3591 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3593 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
3594 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
3595 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
3598 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
3599 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
3603 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
3604 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
3605 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
3608 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
3609 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
3610 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
3611 the appropriate parameters.
3614 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
3615 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
3616 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
3617 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
3618 against a number of sample certificates.
3621 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
3622 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
3624 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
3625 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
3627 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
3628 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
3632 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
3636 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
3637 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
3638 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
3639 password based CMS).
3642 *) Session-handling fixes:
3643 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
3644 but also support Session Tickets.
3645 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
3646 presented a ticket with an expired session.
3647 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
3648 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
3649 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
3650 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3652 *) Fix PSK session representation.
3655 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
3657 This work was sponsored by Intel.
3660 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
3661 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
3662 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
3663 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
3664 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
3667 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
3668 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
3671 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
3672 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
3673 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
3676 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
3677 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
3678 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
3679 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
3682 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
3683 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
3684 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
3687 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
3688 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
3690 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
3693 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
3694 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
3697 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
3700 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
3701 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
3704 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
3705 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
3708 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
3711 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
3712 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
3713 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
3716 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3719 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3722 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
3723 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
3726 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
3727 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
3728 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
3731 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
3734 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
3738 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
3739 FIPS modules versions.
3742 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
3743 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
3744 until after the certificate request message is received.
3747 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
3748 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
3749 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
3750 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
3753 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
3754 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
3755 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
3756 support yet and no support for client certificates.
3759 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
3760 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
3761 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
3762 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
3763 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
3764 and version checking.
3767 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
3768 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
3769 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
3770 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
3773 *) A long standing patch to add support for SRP from EdelWeb (Peter
3774 Sylvester and Christophe Renou) was integrated.
3775 [Christophe Renou <christophe.renou@edelweb.fr>, Peter Sylvester
3776 <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>, Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu>, and
3779 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
3782 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
3783 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
3784 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3786 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
3787 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
3788 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
3791 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
3792 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
3794 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
3795 a few changes are required:
3797 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
3798 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
3799 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
3800 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
3801 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
3804 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
3806 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
3807 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
3808 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
3809 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
3810 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
3811 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
3812 an MMA defence is not necessary.
3813 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
3814 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
3817 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
3818 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
3819 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
3822 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
3824 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
3825 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
3826 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
3827 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
3830 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
3832 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
3833 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
3834 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
3835 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
3836 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
3837 paper describing this attack can be found at:
3838 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
3839 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3840 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3841 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
3842 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
3843 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
3844 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
3846 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
3848 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3850 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
3851 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
3852 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
3853 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3855 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
3856 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
3858 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
3859 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
3860 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
3861 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3863 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3864 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3866 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
3867 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3869 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
3870 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3872 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
3873 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
3874 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3876 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
3877 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
3878 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
3880 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
3881 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
3882 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
3883 the last update always remained unused).
3884 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3886 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
3887 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
3889 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
3891 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
3892 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
3893 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
3895 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
3896 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
3897 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3899 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
3902 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
3903 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
3904 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
3907 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
3908 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
3910 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
3912 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
3914 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
3916 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
3917 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3919 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
3920 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
3924 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
3926 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
3927 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
3928 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
3931 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
3932 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
3933 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
3936 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
3938 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
3939 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
3940 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
3943 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
3947 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
3949 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
3951 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
3953 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
3955 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
3956 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
3957 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
3960 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
3963 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
3964 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
3965 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
3967 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
3968 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
3969 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
3972 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
3973 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
3976 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
3977 some responders need this.
3980 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
3982 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3984 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
3985 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
3986 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
3989 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
3992 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
3993 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
3994 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
3995 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
3996 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
3997 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
3998 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
3999 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
4002 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
4003 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
4004 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
4005 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
4007 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
4008 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
4010 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
4014 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
4015 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
4016 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
4017 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
4018 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
4019 attempting to work them out.
4022 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
4023 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
4024 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
4025 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
4028 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
4029 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
4030 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
4031 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
4032 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
4035 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
4036 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
4043 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
4045 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
4049 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
4050 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
4052 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
4053 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
4055 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
4056 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
4057 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
4058 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
4059 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
4062 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
4063 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
4064 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
4067 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
4068 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
4071 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
4072 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
4074 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
4075 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
4078 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
4081 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
4082 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
4083 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
4087 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
4088 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
4089 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
4090 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
4091 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
4092 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
4095 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
4096 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
4098 This work was sponsored by Google.
4101 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
4102 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
4103 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
4104 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
4105 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
4106 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications won't
4107 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
4110 This work was sponsored by Google.
4113 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
4115 This work was sponsored by Google.
4118 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
4119 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
4120 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
4121 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
4123 This work was sponsored by Google.
4126 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
4127 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
4128 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
4129 CRL functionality in future.
4131 This work was sponsored by Google.
4134 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
4136 This work was sponsored by Google.
4139 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
4140 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
4142 This work was sponsored by Google.
4145 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
4146 and URI types are currently supported.
4148 This work was sponsored by Google.
4151 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
4152 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
4153 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
4154 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
4155 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
4156 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
4157 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
4158 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
4160 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
4161 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
4162 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
4164 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
4165 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
4166 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
4167 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
4169 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
4170 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
4171 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
4172 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
4173 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
4174 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
4175 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
4176 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
4178 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
4180 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
4181 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
4182 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
4184 This work was sponsored by Google.
4187 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
4190 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
4191 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
4192 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
4195 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
4196 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
4199 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
4200 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
4203 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
4204 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
4205 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
4206 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
4207 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
4208 content types and variants.
4211 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
4214 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
4215 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
4216 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
4217 files from the associated perl scripts.
4220 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
4221 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
4222 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
4224 *) s390x assembler pack.
4227 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
4231 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
4232 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
4233 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
4234 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
4235 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
4236 to use. For example, specify an option
4238 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
4240 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
4241 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
4242 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
4243 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
4244 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
4245 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
4247 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
4248 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
4249 an internal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
4250 return non-zero for success.
4252 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
4255 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
4256 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
4260 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
4263 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
4264 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
4265 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
4266 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
4267 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
4268 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
4269 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
4270 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
4271 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
4273 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
4274 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
4275 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
4276 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
4277 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
4278 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
4280 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
4281 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
4282 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
4283 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
4284 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended