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 newline escaping functionality to a filename when using openssl dgst.
13 This output format is to replicate the output format found in the '*sum'
14 checksum programs. This aims to preserve backward compatibility.
15 [Matt Eaton, Richard Levitte, and Paul Dale]
17 *) Removed the heartbeat message in DTLS feature, as it has very
18 little usage and doesn't seem to fulfill a valuable purpose.
19 The configuration option is now deprecated.
22 *) Changed the output of 'openssl {digestname} < file' to display the
23 digest name in its output.
26 *) Added a new generic trace API which provides support for enabling
27 instrumentation through trace output. This feature is mainly intended
28 as an aid for developers and is disabled by default. To utilize it,
29 OpenSSL needs to be configured with the `enable-trace` option.
31 If the tracing API is enabled, the application can activate trace output
32 by registering BIOs as trace channels for a number of tracing and debugging
35 The 'openssl' application has been expanded to enable any of the types
36 available via environment variables defined by the user, and serves as
37 one possible example on how to use this functionality.
38 [Richard Levitte & Matthias St. Pierre]
40 *) Added build tests for C++. These are generated files that only do one
41 thing, to include one public OpenSSL head file each. This tests that
42 the public header files can be usefully included in a C++ application.
44 This test isn't enabled by default. It can be enabled with the option
45 'enable-buildtest-c++'.
48 *) Add Single Step KDF (EVP_KDF_SS) to EVP_KDF.
51 *) Add KMAC to EVP_MAC.
54 *) Added property based algorithm implementation selection framework to
58 *) Added SCA hardening for modular field inversion in EC_GROUP through
59 a new dedicated field_inv() pointer in EC_METHOD.
60 This also addresses a leakage affecting conversions from projective
61 to affine coordinates.
62 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
64 *) Added EVP_KDF, an EVP layer KDF API, to simplify adding KDF and PRF
65 implementations. This includes an EVP_PKEY to EVP_KDF bridge for
66 those algorithms that were already supported through the EVP_PKEY API
67 (scrypt, TLS1 PRF and HKDF). The low-level KDF functions for PBKDF2
68 and scrypt are now wrappers that call EVP_KDF.
71 *) Build devcrypto engine as a dynamic engine.
74 *) Add keyed BLAKE2 to EVP_MAC.
77 *) Fix a bug in the computation of the endpoint-pair shared secret used
78 by DTLS over SCTP. This breaks interoperability with older versions
79 of OpenSSL like OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.2. There is a runtime
80 switch SSL_MODE_DTLS_SCTP_LABEL_LENGTH_BUG (off by default) enabling
81 interoperability with such broken implementations. However, enabling
82 this switch breaks interoperability with correct implementations.
84 *) Fix a use after free bug in d2i_X509_PUBKEY when overwriting a
85 re-used X509_PUBKEY object if the second PUBKEY is malformed.
88 *) Move strictness check from EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() to EVP_PKEY_asn1_add0().
91 *) Change the license to the Apache License v2.0.
94 *) Change the possible version information given with OPENSSL_API_COMPAT.
95 It may be a pre-3.0.0 style numerical version number as it was defined
96 in 1.1.0, and it may also simply take the major version number.
98 Because of the version numbering of pre-3.0.0 releases, the values 0,
99 1 and 2 are equivalent to 0x00908000L (0.9.8), 0x10000000L (1.0.0) and
100 0x10100000L (1.1.0), respectively.
103 *) Switch to a new version scheme using three numbers MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.
105 o Major releases (indicated by incrementing the MAJOR release number)
106 may introduce incompatible API/ABI changes.
107 o Minor releases (indicated by incrementing the MINOR release number)
108 may introduce new features but retain API/ABI compatibility.
109 o Patch releases (indicated by incrementing the PATCH number)
110 are intended for bug fixes and other improvements of existing
111 features only (like improving performance or adding documentation)
112 and retain API/ABI compatibility.
115 *) Add support for RFC5297 SIV mode (siv128), including AES-SIV.
118 *) Remove the 'dist' target and add a tarball building script. The
119 'dist' target has fallen out of use, and it shouldn't be
120 necessary to configure just to create a source distribution.
123 *) Recreate the OS390-Unix config target. It no longer relies on a
124 special script like it did for OpenSSL pre-1.1.0.
127 *) Instead of having the source directories listed in Configure, add
128 a 'build.info' keyword SUBDIRS to indicate what sub-directories to
132 *) Add GMAC to EVP_MAC.
135 *) Ported the HMAC, CMAC and SipHash EVP_PKEY_METHODs to EVP_MAC.
138 *) Added EVP_MAC, an EVP layer MAC API, to simplify adding MAC
139 implementations. This includes a generic EVP_PKEY to EVP_MAC bridge,
140 to facilitate the continued use of MACs through raw private keys in
141 functionality such as EVP_DigestSign* and EVP_DigestVerify*.
144 *) Deprecate ECDH_KDF_X9_62() and mark its replacement as internal. Users
145 should use the EVP interface instead (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_ecdh_kdf_type).
148 *) Added EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_63 and ecdh_KDF_X9_63() as replacements for
149 the EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_62 KDF type and ECDH_KDF_X9_62(). The old names
150 are retained for backwards compatibility.
153 *) AES-XTS mode now enforces that its two keys are different to mitigate
154 the attacked described in "Efficient Instantiations of Tweakable
155 Blockciphers and Refinements to Modes OCB and PMAC" by Phillip Rogaway.
156 Details of this attack can be obtained from:
157 http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Erogaway/papers/offsets.pdf
160 *) Rename the object files, i.e. give them other names than in previous
161 versions. Their names now include the name of the final product, as
162 well as its type mnemonic (bin, lib, shlib).
165 *) Added new option for 'openssl list', '-objects', which will display the
166 list of built in objects, i.e. OIDs with names.
169 *) Added support for Linux Kernel TLS data-path. The Linux Kernel data-path
170 improves application performance by removing data copies and providing
171 applications with zero-copy system calls such as sendfile and splice.
174 Changes between 1.1.1a and 1.1.1b [xx XXX xxxx]
176 *) Change the info callback signals for the start and end of a post-handshake
177 message exchange in TLSv1.3. In 1.1.1/1.1.1a we used SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_START
178 and SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_DONE. Experience has shown that many applications get
179 confused by this and assume that a TLSv1.2 renegotiation has started. This
180 can break KeyUpdate handling. Instead we no longer signal the start and end
181 of a post handshake message exchange (although the messages themselves are
182 still signalled). This could break some applications that were expecting
183 the old signals. However without this KeyUpdate is not usable for many
187 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
189 *) Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation
191 The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
192 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
193 algorithm to recover the private key.
195 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 16th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
199 *) Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation
201 The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
202 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
203 algorithm to recover the private key.
205 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 25th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
209 *) Fixed the issue that RAND_add()/RAND_seed() silently discards random input
210 if its length exceeds 4096 bytes. The limit has been raised to a buffer size
211 of two gigabytes and the error handling improved.
213 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Dr. Falko Strenzke. It has been
214 categorized as a normal bug, not a security issue, because the DRBG reseeds
215 automatically and is fully functional even without additional randomness
216 provided by the application.
218 Changes between 1.1.0i and 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
220 *) Add a new ClientHello callback. Provides a callback interface that gives
221 the application the ability to adjust the nascent SSL object at the
222 earliest stage of ClientHello processing, immediately after extensions have
223 been collected but before they have been processed. In particular, this
224 callback can adjust the supported TLS versions in response to the contents
228 *) Add SM2 base algorithm support.
231 *) s390x assembly pack: add (improved) hardware-support for the following
232 cryptographic primitives: sha3, shake, aes-gcm, aes-ccm, aes-ctr, aes-ofb,
233 aes-cfb/cfb8, aes-ecb.
236 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
237 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
238 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
241 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
242 step for prime curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
243 differential addition-and-doubling in homogeneous projective coordinates
244 from Izu-Takagi "A fast parallel elliptic curve multiplication resistant
245 against side channel attacks" and Brier-Joye "Weierstrass Elliptic Curves
246 and Side-Channel Attacks" Eq. (8) for y-coordinate recovery, modified
247 to work in projective coordinates.
248 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
250 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
251 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
252 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
253 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
255 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
257 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
260 *) The 'tsget' script is renamed to 'tsget.pl', to avoid confusion when
261 moving between systems, and to avoid confusion when a Windows build is
262 done with mingw vs with MSVC. For POSIX installs, there's still a
263 symlink or copy named 'tsget' to avoid that confusion as well.
266 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
267 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
270 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
271 step for binary curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
272 differential addition-and-doubling in mixed Lopez-Dahab projective
273 coordinates, modified to independently blind the operands.
274 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
276 *) Add a scaffold to optionally enhance the Montgomery ladder implementation
277 for `ec_scalar_mul_ladder` (formerly `ec_mul_consttime`) allowing
278 EC_METHODs to implement their own specialized "ladder step", to take
279 advantage of more favorable coordinate systems or more efficient
280 differential addition-and-doubling algorithms.
281 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
283 *) Modified the random device based seed sources to keep the relevant
284 file descriptors open rather than reopening them on each access.
285 This allows such sources to operate in a chroot() jail without
286 the associated device nodes being available. This behaviour can be
287 controlled using RAND_keep_random_devices_open().
290 *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
291 performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
292 security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
296 *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
297 handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
298 different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
299 mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
300 doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
301 multi-version installation is managed.
304 *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
305 EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
306 mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
307 When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
308 EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
311 *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
312 coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
313 chosen point SCA attacks.
314 [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
316 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
317 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
320 *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
321 length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
322 a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
325 *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
326 I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
327 can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
328 Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
329 TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
330 around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
331 It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
332 SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
333 SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
336 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
337 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
340 *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
341 pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
344 *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
345 binary and prime elliptic curves.
348 *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
349 constant time fixed point multiplication.
352 *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
353 defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
354 when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
355 in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
356 ECDH derive operations).
357 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida García,
360 *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
363 *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
364 randomness from the system.
365 [Matthias St. Pierre]
367 *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
370 *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
371 loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
374 *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
377 *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
378 [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
380 *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
383 *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
384 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
385 SSL_set_ciphersuites()
388 *) Memory allocation failures consistenly add an error to the error
392 *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
393 in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
396 *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
399 *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
400 for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
401 [Matthias St. Pierre]
403 *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
404 for the license change).
407 *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
408 SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
411 *) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
412 configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
413 below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
414 In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
415 would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
416 configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
417 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
420 *) On POSIX (BSD, Linux, ...) systems the ocsp(1) command running
421 in responder mode now supports the new "-multi" option, which
422 spawns the specified number of child processes to handle OCSP
423 requests. The "-timeout" option now also limits the OCSP
424 responder's patience to wait to receive the full client request
425 on a newly accepted connection. Child processes are respawned
426 as needed, and the CA index file is automatically reloaded
427 when changed. This makes it possible to run the "ocsp" responder
428 as a long-running service, making the OpenSSL CA somewhat more
429 feature-complete. In this mode, most diagnostic messages logged
430 after entering the event loop are logged via syslog(3) rather than
434 *) Added support for X448 and Ed448. Heavily based on original work by
438 *) Extend OSSL_STORE with capabilities to search and to narrow the set of
439 objects loaded. This adds the functions OSSL_STORE_expect() and
440 OSSL_STORE_find() as well as needed tools to construct searches and
441 get the search data out of them.
444 *) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
445 version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
446 that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
447 https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
450 *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
452 The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
453 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially
454 a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0
455 object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator
456 using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself
457 automatically using trusted system entropy sources.
459 Some of its new features are:
460 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
461 o The default RAND method makes use of a DRBG.
462 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
463 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
464 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
465 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
467 [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
469 *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
470 so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script
471 to display all sorts of configuration data.
474 *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure.
477 *) Added SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 algorithm support.
480 *) The last traces of Netware support, first removed in 1.1.0, have
484 *) Get rid of Makefile.shared, and in the process, make the processing
485 of certain files (rc.obj, or the .def/.map/.opt files produced from
486 the ordinal files) more visible and hopefully easier to trace and
487 debug (or make silent).
490 *) Make it possible to have environment variable assignments as
491 arguments to config / Configure.
494 *) Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support.
497 *) Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
498 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
499 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
500 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
502 *) Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
503 as documented in RFC6066.
504 Based on a patch from Tomasz Moń
505 [Filipe Raimundo da Silva]
507 *) Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
508 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
509 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
510 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
512 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
513 original author does not agree with the license change.
516 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
519 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
520 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
523 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
524 without clearing the errors.
527 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
528 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
529 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
535 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
536 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
537 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
540 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
541 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
542 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
543 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
546 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
547 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
548 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
549 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
550 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
551 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
552 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
555 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
556 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
557 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
558 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
561 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
562 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
563 error code calls like this:
565 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
567 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
568 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
570 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
572 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
575 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
576 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
577 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
578 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
581 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
582 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
583 than just the call where this user data is passed.
586 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
588 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
590 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
591 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
592 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
593 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
594 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
595 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
596 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
600 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
601 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
602 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
606 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
607 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
608 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
610 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
614 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
615 platform rather than 'mingw'.
618 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
619 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
620 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
621 certificates and CRLs.
624 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
625 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
628 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
629 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
632 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
633 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
634 which is the minimum version we support.
637 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
638 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
639 are no longer allowed.
642 *) Add support for ARIA
645 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
646 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
647 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
651 *) Add support for SipHash
654 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
655 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
656 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
657 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
660 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
661 using the algorithm defined in
662 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
665 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
666 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
668 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
671 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
672 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
676 Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
678 *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
680 During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
681 malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
682 cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
683 key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
684 could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
686 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
690 *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
692 The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
693 a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
694 mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
695 recover the private key.
697 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
698 Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
702 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
703 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
704 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
707 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
708 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
711 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
712 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
713 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
714 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
716 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
718 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
721 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
722 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
725 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
726 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
729 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
730 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
731 are no longer allowed.
734 *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
736 Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
737 through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
738 signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
739 line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
740 at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
741 some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
742 and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
743 could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
744 OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
745 signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
746 OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
747 and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
748 the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
751 Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
753 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
755 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
756 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
757 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
758 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
759 so this is considered safe.
761 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
766 *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
768 Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
769 effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
770 byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
771 authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
772 security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
773 HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
775 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
780 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
781 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
782 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
783 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
786 *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
788 OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
789 (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
790 changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
791 SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
792 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
794 Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
795 using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
796 accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
799 *) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
803 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
805 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
806 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
807 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
808 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
809 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
810 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
811 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
812 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
813 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
814 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
816 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
817 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
819 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
820 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
824 Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
826 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
828 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
829 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
830 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
831 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
832 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
833 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
834 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
835 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
836 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
837 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
838 key that is shared between multiple clients.
840 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
841 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
843 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
847 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
849 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
850 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
851 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
853 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
857 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
859 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
860 platform rather than 'mingw'.
863 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
864 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
865 which is the minimum version we support.
868 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
870 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
872 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
873 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
874 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
875 and servers are affected.
877 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
881 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
883 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
885 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
886 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
887 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
889 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
893 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
895 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
896 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
897 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
900 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
904 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
906 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
907 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
908 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
909 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
910 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
911 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
912 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
913 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
914 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
915 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
916 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
917 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
918 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
920 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
924 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
926 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
928 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
929 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
930 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
932 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
936 *) CMS Null dereference
938 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
939 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
940 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
941 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
942 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
945 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
949 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
951 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
952 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
953 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
954 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
955 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
956 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
957 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
958 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
959 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
960 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
961 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
962 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
963 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
964 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
966 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
967 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
968 providing reproducible case.
972 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
973 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
976 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
978 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
980 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
981 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
982 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
983 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
984 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
985 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
987 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
989 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
993 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
995 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
997 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
998 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
999 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
1000 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
1001 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
1002 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
1003 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
1005 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
1009 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
1011 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
1012 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
1013 Denial Of Service attack.
1015 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
1019 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
1020 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
1022 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
1023 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
1024 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
1025 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
1026 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
1027 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
1028 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
1029 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
1030 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
1031 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
1032 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
1033 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
1034 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
1035 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
1036 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
1038 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
1039 that the connection fails
1041 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
1042 very little free memory
1044 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
1045 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
1046 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
1047 memory to service the multiple requests.
1049 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
1050 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
1051 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
1052 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
1053 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
1055 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
1056 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
1059 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
1060 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
1061 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
1062 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
1063 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
1064 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
1065 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
1068 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
1070 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
1071 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
1072 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
1073 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
1074 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
1078 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
1079 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
1080 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
1083 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
1084 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
1085 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
1086 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
1089 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
1090 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
1094 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
1095 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
1096 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
1097 no-ops and deprecated.
1100 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
1101 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
1103 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
1105 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
1106 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
1107 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
1110 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
1111 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
1112 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
1113 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
1114 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
1115 and the validity of object reference counter.
1116 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
1118 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
1119 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
1120 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
1121 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
1124 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
1127 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
1128 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
1129 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
1130 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
1132 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
1136 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
1137 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
1140 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
1143 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
1146 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
1147 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
1148 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
1149 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
1150 name and is used as is.
1153 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
1154 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
1155 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
1158 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
1159 the "no-shared" Configure option.
1162 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
1163 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
1167 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
1168 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
1169 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
1170 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
1171 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
1172 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
1173 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
1174 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
1175 COMP_zlib_cleanup().
1178 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
1179 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
1180 enabled with '--debug' builds.
1181 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
1183 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
1184 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1185 these have been added.
1188 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
1189 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
1190 functions for managing these have been added.
1193 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
1194 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1195 these have been added.
1198 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
1199 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
1203 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
1206 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
1209 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
1210 it is always safe to #include a header now.
1213 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
1216 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
1219 *) Add support for HKDF.
1220 [Alessandro Ghedini]
1222 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
1225 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
1226 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
1227 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
1228 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
1229 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
1230 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
1231 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
1234 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
1235 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
1236 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
1239 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
1240 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
1241 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
1242 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
1243 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
1244 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
1245 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
1247 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1248 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1251 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
1254 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
1255 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
1256 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
1257 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
1258 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
1259 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
1263 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
1264 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
1267 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
1268 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
1269 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
1272 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
1273 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
1274 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
1275 implemented by other servers.
1278 *) Add X25519 support.
1279 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
1280 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
1281 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
1282 key generation and key derivation.
1284 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
1288 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
1289 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1290 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
1291 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
1292 seed, even if the seed is configured.
1294 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1295 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1296 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1297 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1298 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1299 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1300 that of a valid user.
1303 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
1304 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
1305 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
1306 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
1308 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
1309 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
1311 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
1312 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
1313 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
1314 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
1316 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
1317 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
1321 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
1322 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
1323 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
1324 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
1325 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
1326 of how OpenSSL was configured.
1328 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
1329 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
1330 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
1333 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
1336 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
1337 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
1338 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
1342 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
1343 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
1344 old #define's might need to be updated.
1345 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
1347 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
1350 *) New "unified" build system
1352 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
1353 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
1355 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
1356 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
1357 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
1359 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
1360 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
1361 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
1362 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
1365 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
1366 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
1367 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
1368 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
1369 libraries" in INSTALL.
1371 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
1374 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
1375 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
1376 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
1377 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
1380 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
1381 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
1383 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
1384 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
1385 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
1386 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
1387 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
1388 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
1389 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
1390 have been adapted accordingly.
1393 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
1397 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
1398 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
1399 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
1400 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
1403 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
1404 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
1405 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
1409 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
1410 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
1413 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
1414 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
1415 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
1417 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
1418 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
1419 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
1421 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
1422 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
1424 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
1425 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
1426 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
1427 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
1430 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
1431 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
1432 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
1433 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
1434 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
1438 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
1439 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
1440 straightforward and less interdependent.
1442 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
1443 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
1444 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
1446 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
1447 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
1448 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
1450 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
1451 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
1452 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
1453 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
1455 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
1456 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
1459 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
1460 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
1461 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
1462 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
1466 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
1468 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
1470 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
1471 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
1472 before trying to build now.*
1475 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
1479 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
1481 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
1482 the application's responsibility. The application provides
1483 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
1484 used to authenticate the peer.
1486 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
1487 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
1488 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
1489 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
1490 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
1493 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
1494 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
1495 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
1496 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
1497 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
1498 or the 1.1.0 releases.
1500 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
1501 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
1502 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
1503 support for the deprecated features from the library and
1504 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
1505 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
1506 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
1507 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
1510 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
1511 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
1512 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
1513 compile with later releases.
1515 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
1516 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
1517 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
1518 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
1519 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
1522 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
1523 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
1524 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
1525 MaxProtocol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
1526 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
1527 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
1528 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
1529 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
1532 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
1535 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
1536 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
1537 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
1540 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
1541 include the ec.h header file instead.
1544 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
1545 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
1546 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
1549 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
1550 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
1553 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
1554 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
1556 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
1557 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
1558 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
1561 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
1562 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
1563 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
1564 an already created structure.
1565 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
1566 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
1567 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
1568 for deprecated builds.
1571 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
1572 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
1573 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
1574 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
1575 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
1576 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
1577 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
1580 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
1581 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
1582 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
1583 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
1586 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
1587 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
1590 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
1591 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
1594 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
1595 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
1596 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
1597 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
1598 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
1599 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
1600 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
1604 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
1605 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
1606 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
1609 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
1612 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
1614 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
1616 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
1618 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
1619 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
1627 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
1628 set a mandatory field to NULL.
1630 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
1631 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
1632 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
1636 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
1639 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
1640 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
1641 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
1642 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
1645 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1646 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1647 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1648 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1651 *) Fix no-stdio build.
1652 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
1653 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
1655 *) New testing framework
1656 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
1657 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
1658 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
1659 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
1660 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
1661 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
1663 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
1665 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
1666 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
1670 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
1671 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
1672 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
1673 and others were changed. All are now documented.
1676 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1678 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1680 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
1681 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1683 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1684 original RSA_PSK patch.
1687 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1688 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1689 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1690 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1693 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1694 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1697 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1698 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1699 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1702 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1703 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1704 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1705 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1709 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1710 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1711 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1712 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1715 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1716 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1717 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1718 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1719 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1720 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1723 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1724 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1725 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1726 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1727 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1728 header file has been removed.
1731 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1732 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1735 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1736 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1737 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1739 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1743 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1746 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1750 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1753 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1754 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1755 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1758 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1759 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1760 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1761 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1764 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1765 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1766 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1767 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1768 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1769 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1772 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1773 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1774 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1775 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1778 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1779 compatible client hello.
1782 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1783 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1784 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1786 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1789 *) Removed old DES API.
1792 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1798 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1803 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1806 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1807 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1808 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1809 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1810 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1811 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1812 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1813 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1814 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1815 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1816 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1819 *) Cleaned up dead code
1820 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1823 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1824 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1825 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1828 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1829 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1830 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1833 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1834 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1835 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1837 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1838 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1839 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1841 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1843 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1845 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1846 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1847 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1849 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1850 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1852 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1853 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1856 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1857 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1858 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1859 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1861 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1862 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1863 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1864 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1866 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1867 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1868 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1870 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1871 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1874 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1876 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1877 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1879 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1880 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1882 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1885 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1889 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1890 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1891 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1892 algorithms and include tests cases.
1895 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1899 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1900 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1903 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1904 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1906 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1907 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1910 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1911 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1915 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1916 sign or verify all in one operation.
1919 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1920 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1921 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1924 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1927 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1930 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1931 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1932 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1933 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1934 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1937 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1941 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1942 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1943 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1946 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1949 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1950 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1953 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1954 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1957 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1958 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1959 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1962 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1963 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1964 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1965 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1966 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1967 requested amount of entropy.
1970 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1971 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1974 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1975 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1976 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1980 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1981 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1982 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1985 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1986 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1987 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1988 will never use XTS mode.
1991 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1992 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1993 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1994 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1995 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1996 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1999 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
2000 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
2001 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
2002 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
2005 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
2006 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
2007 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
2010 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
2013 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
2016 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
2017 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
2020 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
2021 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
2024 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
2025 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
2028 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
2029 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
2030 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
2031 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
2032 and rename any affected symbols.
2035 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
2036 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
2039 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
2040 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
2041 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
2044 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2047 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
2048 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
2049 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
2052 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
2053 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
2056 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
2057 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
2058 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
2059 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
2060 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
2061 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
2065 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
2066 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
2067 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
2068 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
2069 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
2070 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
2071 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
2072 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
2075 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
2076 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
2079 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
2081 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2082 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2084 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
2085 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
2086 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
2087 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
2088 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
2089 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
2091 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
2092 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
2093 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
2095 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
2097 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
2101 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
2102 Add CMAC pkey methods.
2105 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
2106 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
2107 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
2110 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
2111 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
2112 multi-process servers.
2115 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
2116 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
2117 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
2118 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
2119 RAND_METHOD structure.
2122 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
2123 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
2124 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
2125 whose return value is often ignored.
2128 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
2129 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
2130 validated when establishing a connection.
2131 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
2133 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
2135 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
2137 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
2138 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
2141 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
2142 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
2143 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
2144 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
2145 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
2148 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
2152 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
2154 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
2155 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
2156 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
2159 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
2160 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
2161 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
2162 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
2163 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
2164 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
2166 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2170 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
2172 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
2173 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
2174 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
2175 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
2176 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
2177 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
2178 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
2179 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
2180 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
2181 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
2182 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
2183 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
2184 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
2185 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
2186 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
2187 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
2189 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2193 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
2195 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
2196 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
2197 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
2199 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
2200 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
2201 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
2202 applications are not affected.
2204 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
2210 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
2211 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
2212 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
2214 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2218 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
2219 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
2222 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
2226 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
2227 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
2230 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
2232 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
2233 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
2234 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
2237 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
2238 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
2239 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
2240 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
2241 will need to explicitly call either of:
2243 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2245 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2247 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
2248 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
2249 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
2250 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
2251 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
2255 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
2257 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
2258 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
2259 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
2262 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
2267 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
2269 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
2271 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
2272 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
2273 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
2276 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
2277 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
2278 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
2279 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
2280 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
2281 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
2282 that of a valid user.
2286 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
2288 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
2289 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
2290 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
2291 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
2292 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
2293 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
2294 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
2295 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
2296 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
2297 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
2298 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
2300 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
2301 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
2302 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
2303 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
2304 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
2306 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
2310 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
2312 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
2313 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
2314 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
2316 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
2317 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
2318 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
2319 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
2320 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
2323 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
2324 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
2325 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
2326 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
2327 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
2328 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
2329 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
2330 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
2331 as command line arguments.
2333 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
2334 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
2335 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
2337 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
2341 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
2343 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
2344 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
2345 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
2346 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
2347 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
2349 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
2350 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
2351 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
2352 http://cachebleed.info.
2356 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
2357 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
2358 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
2359 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
2362 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
2363 *) DH small subgroups
2365 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
2366 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
2367 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
2368 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
2369 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
2370 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
2371 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
2372 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
2373 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
2374 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
2376 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
2377 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
2378 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
2379 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
2380 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
2382 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
2383 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
2384 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
2385 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
2387 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
2388 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
2390 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
2394 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
2396 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
2397 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
2398 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
2401 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
2402 and Sebastian Schinzel.
2406 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
2408 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
2410 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
2411 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
2412 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
2413 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
2414 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
2415 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
2416 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
2417 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
2418 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
2419 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
2420 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
2421 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
2423 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
2427 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
2429 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2430 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2431 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
2432 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
2433 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
2434 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
2435 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
2438 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
2442 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
2444 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
2445 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
2446 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
2447 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
2449 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
2454 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
2455 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
2456 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
2457 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
2460 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
2462 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
2464 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
2466 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
2468 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
2469 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
2470 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
2471 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
2472 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
2473 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
2475 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
2479 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
2481 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
2482 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
2486 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
2488 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
2490 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
2491 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
2494 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
2495 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
2496 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
2497 client authentication enabled.
2499 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
2503 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
2505 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
2506 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
2507 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
2510 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
2511 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
2512 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
2513 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
2514 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
2517 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
2518 independently by Hanno Böck.
2522 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
2524 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
2525 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
2526 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2528 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
2529 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
2530 servers are not affected.
2532 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2536 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
2538 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
2539 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
2540 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
2542 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
2546 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
2548 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
2549 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
2550 a double free of the ticket data.
2554 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
2555 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
2556 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
2559 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
2561 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
2563 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
2564 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
2565 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
2567 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
2570 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
2572 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
2574 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
2575 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
2576 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
2577 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
2578 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
2579 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
2580 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
2581 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
2583 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
2587 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
2589 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
2590 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
2591 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
2592 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
2593 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
2594 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
2595 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
2596 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
2599 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
2603 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
2605 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
2606 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
2607 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
2608 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2609 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2610 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2614 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
2616 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2617 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2618 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
2619 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
2620 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2621 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2622 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2624 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
2628 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
2630 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
2631 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
2632 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
2634 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
2635 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
2636 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
2641 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
2643 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
2644 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
2645 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2647 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
2648 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
2649 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
2651 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2655 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
2657 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
2658 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
2659 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
2661 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
2662 (OpenSSL development team).
2666 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
2668 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
2669 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
2670 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
2674 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
2676 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
2677 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
2678 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
2679 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
2680 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
2681 SSL_client_methodv23)
2682 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2683 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2685 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2686 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2687 output may be predictable.
2689 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2690 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2692 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2696 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2698 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2699 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2700 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2701 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2702 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2703 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2705 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2710 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2712 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2713 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2715 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2719 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2722 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2724 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2725 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2726 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2727 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2728 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2729 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2732 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2733 (other platforms pending).
2734 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2736 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2737 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2740 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2741 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2742 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2745 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2746 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2747 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2748 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2751 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2752 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2754 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2755 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2756 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2757 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2758 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2760 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2763 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2764 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2765 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2766 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2768 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2770 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2772 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2773 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2774 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2777 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2780 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2781 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2782 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2785 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2786 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2789 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2790 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2793 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2794 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2795 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2796 algorithms and include tests cases.
2799 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2801 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2803 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2804 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2807 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2808 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2809 summary of the connection parameters.
2812 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2813 of connection parameters.
2816 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2817 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2819 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2820 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2823 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2826 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2827 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2830 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2831 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2834 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2838 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2839 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2840 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2843 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2846 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2847 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2850 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2851 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2852 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2856 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2857 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2860 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2864 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2868 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2869 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2870 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2871 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2874 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2875 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2878 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2879 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2880 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2884 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2885 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2886 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2887 use the certificate.
2890 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2893 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2894 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2895 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2896 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2897 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2898 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2899 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2901 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2902 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2906 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2907 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2908 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2911 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2912 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2913 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2914 supported signature algorithms.
2917 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2920 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2921 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2922 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2923 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2924 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2925 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2926 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2929 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2930 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2931 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2932 to have similar checks in it.
2934 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2935 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2936 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2937 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2938 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2941 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2942 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2943 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2944 shared signature algorithms.
2947 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2948 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2952 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2953 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2954 it couldn't be removed.
2957 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2958 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2961 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2962 functions. Add manual page.
2963 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2965 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2966 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2970 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2971 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2973 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2974 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2975 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2976 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2980 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2981 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2984 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2985 platform support for Linux and Android.
2988 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2991 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2992 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2993 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2994 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2995 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2998 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2999 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
3000 the new parameter format automatically.
3003 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
3004 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
3007 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
3010 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
3011 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
3012 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
3013 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
3014 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
3017 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
3018 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
3019 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
3020 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
3021 to set list of supported curves.
3024 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
3025 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
3026 to print out received values.
3029 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
3030 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
3031 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
3034 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
3035 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
3038 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
3039 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
3042 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
3046 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
3048 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
3049 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
3050 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
3052 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
3054 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
3055 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
3057 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
3059 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
3060 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
3061 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
3062 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
3066 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
3067 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
3068 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
3069 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
3070 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
3071 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
3075 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
3076 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
3077 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
3078 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
3082 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
3085 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
3086 reporting this issue.
3090 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
3091 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
3092 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
3093 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
3094 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
3095 INRIA or reporting this issue.
3099 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
3100 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
3101 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
3102 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
3103 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
3104 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
3105 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
3110 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
3111 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
3113 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
3114 and can vary with the CTX.
3117 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
3119 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
3120 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
3121 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
3122 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
3123 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
3125 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
3127 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
3128 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
3130 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
3132 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
3133 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
3134 errors for some broken certificates.
3136 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
3138 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
3140 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
3141 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
3143 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
3144 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
3145 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
3146 (negative or with leading zeroes).
3148 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
3149 of the OpenSSL core team.
3154 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
3155 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
3156 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
3157 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
3158 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
3159 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
3160 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
3161 the OpenSSL core team.
3165 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
3166 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
3167 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
3168 sanity and breaks all known clients.
3169 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
3171 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
3172 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
3173 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
3176 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
3177 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
3178 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3179 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
3180 announced in the initial ServerHello.
3182 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
3183 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3184 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
3187 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
3189 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
3191 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
3192 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
3193 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
3194 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
3195 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
3196 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
3197 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
3199 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
3203 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
3205 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
3206 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
3207 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
3208 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
3209 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
3214 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
3216 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
3217 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
3218 configured to send them.
3220 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
3222 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
3223 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
3224 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
3226 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3228 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
3230 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
3231 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
3232 DigestInfo structures.
3234 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
3238 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
3240 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
3241 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
3242 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
3244 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
3245 Group for discovering this issue.
3249 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
3250 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
3251 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
3252 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
3253 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
3255 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
3256 researching this issue.
3260 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
3261 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
3262 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
3263 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
3265 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
3270 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
3271 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3272 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3276 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
3277 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
3278 Denial of Service attack.
3279 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3283 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
3284 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
3285 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3286 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
3291 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
3292 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
3293 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
3295 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
3300 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
3301 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
3302 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
3303 Denial of Service attack.
3305 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
3306 discovering and researching this issue.
3310 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
3311 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
3312 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
3313 output to the attacker.
3315 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
3317 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
3319 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
3320 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
3321 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
3324 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
3326 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
3327 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
3328 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
3330 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
3331 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
3332 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
3334 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
3335 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
3338 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
3340 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
3342 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
3343 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
3344 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
3345 code on a vulnerable client or server.
3347 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
3348 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
3350 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
3351 are subject to a denial of service attack.
3353 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
3354 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
3355 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
3357 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
3359 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3361 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
3362 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
3363 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3365 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
3366 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3368 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
3370 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
3371 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
3374 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
3375 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
3376 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
3377 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3379 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
3380 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
3381 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
3382 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
3384 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
3385 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
3386 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
3388 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
3390 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
3391 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
3392 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
3393 is at least 512 bytes long.
3395 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
3397 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
3399 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
3400 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
3401 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
3404 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
3405 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
3406 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
3409 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
3410 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
3411 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
3412 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
3413 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
3414 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
3415 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
3417 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
3419 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
3420 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
3421 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3423 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
3425 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
3427 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
3428 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
3429 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
3431 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3432 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3433 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
3434 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
3436 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3438 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
3439 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
3440 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
3441 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
3442 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
3446 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
3447 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
3450 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
3451 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3453 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
3454 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
3455 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
3456 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
3457 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
3459 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
3462 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
3466 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
3468 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
3469 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
3471 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
3472 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
3476 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
3477 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
3480 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
3484 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
3486 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
3487 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
3488 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
3489 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disabling
3490 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
3491 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
3492 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
3493 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
3494 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
3495 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
3498 *) In order to ensure interoperability SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
3499 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
3500 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
3501 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
3502 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
3503 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
3507 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
3509 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
3510 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
3511 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
3513 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
3514 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
3516 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
3518 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
3521 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
3522 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
3524 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
3525 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
3526 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
3527 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
3528 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
3529 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
3530 Most broken servers should now work.
3531 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
3532 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
3535 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
3538 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
3540 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
3541 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
3544 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
3545 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
3546 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
3547 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
3548 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
3551 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
3552 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
3553 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
3554 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
3555 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
3558 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
3559 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3561 *) Add support for SCTP.
3562 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3564 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3565 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3567 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
3569 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
3570 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
3571 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
3572 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
3573 - s390x: z196 support;
3574 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
3578 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
3579 (removal of unnecessary code)
3580 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
3582 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
3585 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
3588 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
3589 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
3590 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
3592 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3594 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
3595 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
3596 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
3597 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
3598 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
3600 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
3601 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
3602 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
3604 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
3605 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
3606 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
3608 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
3609 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
3611 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3613 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
3614 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
3615 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
3618 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
3619 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in