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 1.1.0f and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
12 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
13 original author does not agree with the license change.
16 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
19 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
20 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
23 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
24 without clearing the errors.
27 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
28 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
29 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
35 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
36 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
37 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
40 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
41 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
42 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
43 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
46 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
47 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
48 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
49 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
50 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
51 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
52 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
55 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
56 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
57 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
58 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
61 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
62 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
63 error code calls like this:
65 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
67 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
68 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
70 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
72 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
75 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
76 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
77 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
78 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
81 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
82 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
83 than just the call where this user data is passed.
86 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
88 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
90 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
91 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
92 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
93 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
94 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
95 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
96 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
100 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
101 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
102 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
106 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
107 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
108 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
110 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
114 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
115 platform rather than 'mingw'.
118 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
119 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
120 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
121 certificates and CRLs.
124 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
125 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
128 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
129 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
132 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
133 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
134 which is the minimum version we support.
137 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
138 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
139 are no longer allowed.
142 *) Add support for ARIA
145 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
146 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
147 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
151 *) Add support for SipHash
154 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
155 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
156 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
157 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
160 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
161 using the algorithm defined in
162 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
165 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
166 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
168 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
171 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
172 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
175 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
177 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
178 platform rather than 'mingw'.
181 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
182 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
183 which is the minimum version we support.
186 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
188 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
190 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
191 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
192 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
193 and servers are affected.
195 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
199 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
201 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
203 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
204 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
205 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
207 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
211 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
213 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
214 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
215 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
218 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
222 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
224 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
225 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
226 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
227 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
228 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
229 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
230 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
231 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
232 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
233 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
234 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
235 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
236 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
238 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
242 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
244 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
246 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
247 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
248 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
250 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
254 *) CMS Null dereference
256 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
257 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
258 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
259 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
260 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
263 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
267 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
269 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
270 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
271 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
272 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
273 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
274 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
275 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
276 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
277 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
278 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
279 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
280 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
281 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
282 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
284 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
285 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
286 providing reproducible case.
290 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
291 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
294 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
296 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
298 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
299 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
300 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
301 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
302 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
303 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
305 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
307 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
311 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
313 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
315 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
316 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
317 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
318 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
319 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
320 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
321 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
323 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
327 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
329 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
330 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
331 Denial Of Service attack.
333 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
337 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
338 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
340 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
341 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
342 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
343 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
344 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
345 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
346 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
347 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
348 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
349 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
350 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
351 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
352 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
353 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
354 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
356 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
357 that the connection fails
359 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
360 very little free memory
362 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
363 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
364 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
365 memory to service the multiple requests.
367 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
368 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
369 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
370 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
371 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
373 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
374 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
377 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
378 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
379 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
380 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
381 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
382 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
383 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
386 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
388 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
389 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
390 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
391 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
392 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
396 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
397 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
398 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
401 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
402 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
403 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
404 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
407 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
408 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
412 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
413 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
414 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
415 no-ops and deprecated.
418 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
419 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
421 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
423 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
424 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
425 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
428 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
429 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
430 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
431 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
432 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
433 and the validity of object reference counter.
434 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
436 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
437 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
438 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
439 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
442 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
445 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
446 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
447 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
448 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
450 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
454 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
455 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
458 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
461 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
464 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
465 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
466 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
467 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
468 name and is used as is.
471 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
472 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
473 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
476 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
477 the "no-shared" Configure option.
480 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
481 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
485 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
486 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
487 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
488 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
489 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
490 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
491 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
492 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
496 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
497 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
498 enabled with '--debug' builds.
499 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
501 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
502 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
503 these have been added.
506 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
507 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
508 functions for managing these have been added.
511 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
512 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
513 these have been added.
516 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
517 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
521 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
524 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
527 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
528 it is always safe to #include a header now.
531 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
534 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
537 *) Add support for HKDF.
540 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
543 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
544 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
545 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
546 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
547 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
548 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
549 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
552 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
553 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
554 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
557 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
558 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
559 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
560 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
561 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
562 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
563 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
565 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
566 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
569 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
572 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
573 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
574 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
575 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
576 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
577 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
581 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
582 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
585 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
586 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
587 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
590 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
591 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
592 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
593 implemented by other servers.
596 *) Add X25519 support.
597 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
598 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
599 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
600 key generation and key derivation.
602 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
606 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
607 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
608 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
609 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
610 seed, even if the seed is configured.
612 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
613 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
614 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
615 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
616 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
617 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
618 that of a valid user.
621 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
622 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
623 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
624 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
626 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
627 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
629 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
630 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
631 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
632 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
634 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
635 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
639 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
640 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
641 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
642 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
643 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
644 of how OpenSSL was configured.
646 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
647 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
648 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
651 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
654 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
655 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
656 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
660 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
661 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
662 old #define's might need to be updated.
663 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
665 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
668 *) New "unified" build system
670 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
671 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
673 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
674 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
675 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
677 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
678 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
679 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
680 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
683 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
684 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
685 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
686 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
687 libraries" in INSTALL.
689 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
692 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
693 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
694 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
695 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
698 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
699 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
701 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
702 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
703 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
704 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
705 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
706 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
707 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
708 have been adapted accordingly.
711 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
715 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
716 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
717 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
718 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
721 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
722 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
723 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
727 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
728 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
731 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
732 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
733 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
735 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
736 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
737 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
739 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
740 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
742 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
743 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
744 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
745 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
748 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
749 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
750 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
751 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
752 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
756 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
757 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
758 straightforward and less interdependent.
760 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
761 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
762 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
764 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
765 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
766 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
768 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
769 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
770 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
771 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
773 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
774 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
777 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
778 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
779 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
780 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
784 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
786 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
788 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
789 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
790 before trying to build now.*
793 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
797 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
799 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
800 the application's responsibility. The application provides
801 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
802 used to authenticate the peer.
804 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
805 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
806 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
807 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
808 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
811 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
812 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
813 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
814 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
815 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
816 or the 1.1.0 releases.
818 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
819 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
820 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
821 support for the deprecated features from the library and
822 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
823 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
824 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
825 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
828 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
829 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
830 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
831 compile with later releases.
833 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
834 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
835 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
836 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
837 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
840 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
841 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
842 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
843 MaxProtcol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
844 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
845 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
846 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
847 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
850 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
853 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
854 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
855 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
858 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
859 include the ec.h header file instead.
862 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
863 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
864 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
867 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
868 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
871 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
872 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
874 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
875 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
876 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
879 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
880 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
881 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
882 an already created structure.
883 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
884 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
885 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
886 for deprecated builds.
889 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
890 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
891 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
892 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
893 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
894 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
895 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
898 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
899 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
900 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
901 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
904 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
905 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
908 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
909 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
912 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
913 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
914 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
915 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
916 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
917 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
918 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
922 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
923 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
924 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
927 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
930 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
932 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
934 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
936 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
937 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
945 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
946 set a mandatory field to NULL.
948 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
949 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
950 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
954 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
957 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
958 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
959 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
960 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
963 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
964 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
965 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
966 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
969 *) Fix no-stdio build.
970 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
971 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
973 *) New testing framework
974 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
975 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
976 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
977 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
978 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
979 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
981 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
983 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
984 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
988 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
989 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
990 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
991 and others were changed. All are now documented.
994 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
996 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
998 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
999 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1001 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1002 original RSA_PSK patch.
1005 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1006 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1007 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1008 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1011 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1012 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1015 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1016 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1017 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1020 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1021 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1022 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1023 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1027 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1028 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1029 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1030 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1033 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1034 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1035 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1036 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1037 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1038 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1041 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1042 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1043 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1044 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1045 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1046 header file has been removed.
1049 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1050 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1053 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1054 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1055 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1057 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1061 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1064 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1068 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1071 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1072 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1073 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1076 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1077 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1078 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1079 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1082 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1083 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1084 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1085 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1086 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1087 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1090 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1091 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1092 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1093 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1096 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1097 compatible client hello.
1100 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1101 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1102 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1104 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1107 *) Removed old DES API.
1110 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1116 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1121 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1124 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1125 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1126 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1127 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1128 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1129 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1130 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1131 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1132 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1133 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1134 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1137 *) Cleaned up dead code
1138 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1141 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1142 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1143 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1146 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1147 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1148 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1151 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1152 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1153 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1155 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1156 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1157 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1159 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1161 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1163 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1164 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1165 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1167 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1168 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1170 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1171 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1174 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1175 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1176 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1177 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1179 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1180 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1181 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1182 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1184 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1185 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1186 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1188 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1189 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1192 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1194 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1195 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1197 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1198 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1200 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1203 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1207 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1208 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1209 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1210 algorithms and include tests cases.
1213 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1217 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1218 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1221 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1222 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1224 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1225 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1228 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1229 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1233 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1234 sign or verify all in one operation.
1237 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1238 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1239 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1242 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1245 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1248 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1249 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1250 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1251 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1252 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1255 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1259 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1260 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1261 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1264 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1267 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1268 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1271 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1272 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1275 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1276 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1277 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1280 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1281 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1282 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1283 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1284 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1285 requested amount of entropy.
1288 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1289 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1292 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1293 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1294 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1298 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1299 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1300 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1303 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1304 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1305 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1306 will never use XTS mode.
1309 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1310 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1311 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1312 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1313 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1314 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1317 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
1318 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
1319 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
1320 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
1323 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
1324 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
1325 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
1328 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
1331 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
1334 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
1335 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
1338 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
1339 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
1342 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
1343 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
1346 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
1347 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
1348 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
1349 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
1350 and rename any affected symbols.
1353 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
1354 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
1357 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
1358 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
1359 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
1362 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
1365 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
1366 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
1367 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
1370 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
1371 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
1374 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
1375 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
1376 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
1377 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
1378 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
1379 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
1383 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
1384 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
1385 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
1386 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
1387 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
1388 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
1389 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
1390 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
1393 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
1394 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
1397 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
1399 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1400 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1402 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
1403 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
1404 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
1405 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
1406 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
1407 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
1409 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
1410 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
1411 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
1413 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
1415 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
1419 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
1420 Add CMAC pkey methods.
1423 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
1424 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
1425 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
1428 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
1429 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
1430 multi-process servers.
1433 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
1434 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
1435 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
1436 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
1437 RAND_METHOD structure.
1440 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
1441 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
1442 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
1443 whose return value is often ignored.
1446 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
1447 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
1448 validated when establishing a connection.
1449 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
1451 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
1453 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
1455 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
1456 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
1459 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
1460 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
1461 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
1462 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
1463 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
1466 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
1470 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
1472 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
1473 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
1474 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
1477 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
1478 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
1479 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
1480 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
1481 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
1482 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
1484 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1488 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
1490 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
1491 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
1492 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
1493 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
1494 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
1495 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
1496 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
1497 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
1498 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
1499 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
1500 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
1501 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
1502 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
1503 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
1504 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
1505 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
1507 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1511 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
1513 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
1514 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
1515 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
1517 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
1518 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
1519 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
1520 applications are not affected.
1522 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
1528 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
1529 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
1530 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
1532 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1536 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1537 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1540 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
1544 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
1545 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
1548 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
1550 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
1551 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
1552 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
1555 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
1556 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
1557 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
1558 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
1559 will need to explicitly call either of:
1561 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1563 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1565 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
1566 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
1567 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
1568 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
1569 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
1573 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
1575 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
1576 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
1577 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
1580 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
1585 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
1587 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
1589 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1590 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
1591 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
1594 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1595 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1596 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1597 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1598 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1599 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1600 that of a valid user.
1604 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
1606 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
1607 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
1608 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
1609 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
1610 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
1611 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
1612 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
1613 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
1614 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
1615 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
1616 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
1618 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
1619 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
1620 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
1621 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
1622 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
1624 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
1628 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
1630 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
1631 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
1632 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
1634 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
1635 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
1636 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
1637 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
1638 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
1641 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
1642 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
1643 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
1644 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
1645 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
1646 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
1647 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
1648 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
1649 as command line arguments.
1651 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
1652 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
1653 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
1655 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
1659 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
1661 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
1662 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
1663 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
1664 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
1665 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
1667 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
1668 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
1669 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
1670 http://cachebleed.info.
1674 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
1675 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
1676 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
1677 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
1680 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
1681 *) DH small subgroups
1683 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
1684 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
1685 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
1686 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
1687 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
1688 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
1689 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
1690 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
1691 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
1692 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
1694 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
1695 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
1696 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
1697 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
1698 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
1700 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
1701 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
1702 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
1703 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
1705 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
1706 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
1708 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
1712 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
1714 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
1715 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
1716 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
1719 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
1720 and Sebastian Schinzel.
1724 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
1726 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
1728 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
1729 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
1730 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
1731 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
1732 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
1733 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
1734 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
1735 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
1736 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
1737 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
1738 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
1739 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
1741 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
1745 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
1747 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1748 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1749 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
1750 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
1751 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
1752 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
1753 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
1756 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
1760 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
1762 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
1763 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
1764 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
1765 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
1767 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
1772 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1773 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1774 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1775 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1778 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1780 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1782 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
1784 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
1786 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
1787 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
1788 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
1789 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
1790 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
1791 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
1793 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
1797 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
1799 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
1800 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
1804 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
1806 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
1808 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
1809 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
1812 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
1813 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
1814 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
1815 client authentication enabled.
1817 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
1821 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
1823 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
1824 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
1825 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
1828 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
1829 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
1830 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
1831 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
1832 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
1835 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
1836 independently by Hanno Böck.
1840 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
1842 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
1843 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
1844 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1846 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
1847 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
1848 servers are not affected.
1850 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1854 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
1856 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
1857 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
1858 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
1860 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
1864 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
1866 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
1867 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
1868 a double free of the ticket data.
1872 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
1873 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
1874 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
1877 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
1879 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
1881 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
1882 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
1883 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
1885 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
1888 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
1890 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
1892 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
1893 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
1894 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
1895 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
1896 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
1897 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
1898 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
1899 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
1901 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
1905 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
1907 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
1908 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
1909 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
1910 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
1911 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
1912 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
1913 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
1914 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
1917 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
1921 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
1923 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
1924 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
1925 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
1926 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1927 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1928 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1932 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
1934 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1935 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1936 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
1937 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
1938 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1939 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1940 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1942 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
1946 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
1948 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
1949 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
1950 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
1952 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
1953 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
1954 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
1959 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
1961 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
1962 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
1963 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1965 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
1966 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
1967 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
1969 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1973 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
1975 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
1976 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
1977 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
1979 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
1980 (OpenSSL development team).
1984 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
1986 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
1987 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
1988 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
1992 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
1994 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
1995 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
1996 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
1997 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
1998 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
1999 SSL_client_methodv23)
2000 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2001 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2003 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2004 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2005 output may be predictable.
2007 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2008 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2010 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2014 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2016 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2017 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2018 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2019 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2020 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2021 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2023 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2028 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2030 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2031 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2033 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2037 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2040 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2042 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2043 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2044 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2045 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2046 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2047 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2050 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2051 (other platforms pending).
2052 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2054 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2055 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2058 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2059 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2060 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2063 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2064 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2065 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2066 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2069 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2070 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2072 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2073 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2074 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2075 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2076 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2078 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2081 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2082 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2083 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2084 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2086 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2088 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2090 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2091 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2092 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2095 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2098 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2099 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2100 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2103 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2104 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2107 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2108 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2111 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2112 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2113 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2114 algorithms and include tests cases.
2117 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2119 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2121 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2122 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2125 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2126 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2127 summary of the connection parameters.
2130 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2131 of connection parameters.
2134 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2135 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2137 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2138 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2141 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2144 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2145 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2148 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2149 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2152 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2156 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2157 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2158 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2161 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2164 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2165 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2168 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2169 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2170 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2174 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2175 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2178 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2182 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2186 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2187 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2188 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2189 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2192 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2193 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2196 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2197 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2198 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2202 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2203 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2204 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2205 use the certificate.
2208 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2211 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2212 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2213 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2214 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2215 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2216 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2217 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2219 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2220 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2224 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2225 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2226 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2229 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2230 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2231 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2232 supported signature algorithms.
2235 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2238 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2239 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2240 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2241 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2242 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2243 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2244 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2247 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2248 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2249 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2250 to have similar checks in it.
2252 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2253 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2254 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2255 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2256 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2259 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2260 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2261 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2262 shared signature algorithms.
2265 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2266 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2270 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2271 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2272 it couldn't be removed.
2275 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2276 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2279 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2280 functions. Add manual page.
2281 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2283 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2284 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2288 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2289 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2291 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2292 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2293 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2294 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2298 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2299 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2302 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2303 platform support for Linux and Android.
2306 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2309 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2310 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2311 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2312 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2313 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2316 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2317 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
2318 the new parameter format automatically.
2321 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
2322 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
2325 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
2328 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
2329 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
2330 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
2331 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
2332 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
2335 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
2336 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
2337 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
2338 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
2339 to set list of supported curves.
2342 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
2343 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
2344 to print out received values.
2347 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
2348 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
2349 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
2352 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
2353 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
2356 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
2357 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
2360 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
2364 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
2366 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
2367 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
2368 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
2370 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
2372 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
2373 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
2375 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
2377 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
2378 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
2379 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
2380 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
2384 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
2385 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
2386 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
2387 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
2388 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
2389 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
2393 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
2394 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
2395 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
2396 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
2400 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
2403 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
2404 reporting this issue.
2408 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
2409 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
2410 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
2411 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
2412 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
2413 INRIA or reporting this issue.
2417 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
2418 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
2419 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
2420 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
2421 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
2422 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
2423 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
2428 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
2429 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
2431 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
2432 and can vary with the CTX.
2435 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
2437 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
2438 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
2439 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
2440 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
2441 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
2443 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
2445 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
2446 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
2448 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
2450 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
2451 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
2452 errors for some broken certificates.
2454 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
2456 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
2458 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
2459 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
2461 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
2462 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
2463 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
2464 (negative or with leading zeroes).
2466 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
2467 of the OpenSSL core team.
2472 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
2473 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
2474 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
2475 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
2476 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
2477 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
2478 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
2479 the OpenSSL core team.
2483 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
2484 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
2485 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
2486 sanity and breaks all known clients.
2487 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
2489 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
2490 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
2491 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
2494 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
2495 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
2496 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2497 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
2498 announced in the initial ServerHello.
2500 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
2501 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2502 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
2505 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
2507 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
2509 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
2510 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
2511 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
2512 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
2513 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
2514 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
2515 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
2517 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
2521 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
2523 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
2524 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
2525 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
2526 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
2527 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
2532 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
2534 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
2535 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
2536 configured to send them.
2538 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
2540 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
2541 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
2542 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
2544 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2546 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
2548 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
2549 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
2550 DigestInfo structures.
2552 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
2556 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
2558 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
2559 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
2560 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
2562 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
2563 Group for discovering this issue.
2567 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
2568 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
2569 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
2570 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
2571 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
2573 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
2574 researching this issue.
2578 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
2579 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
2580 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
2581 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
2583 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
2588 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
2589 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2590 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2594 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
2595 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
2596 Denial of Service attack.
2597 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2601 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
2602 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
2603 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2604 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
2609 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
2610 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
2611 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
2613 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
2618 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
2619 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
2620 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
2621 Denial of Service attack.
2623 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
2624 discovering and researching this issue.
2628 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
2629 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
2630 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
2631 output to the attacker.
2633 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
2635 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
2637 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2638 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2639 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2642 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
2644 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
2645 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
2646 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
2648 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
2649 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
2650 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
2652 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
2653 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
2656 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
2658 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
2660 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
2661 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
2662 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
2663 code on a vulnerable client or server.
2665 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
2666 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
2668 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
2669 are subject to a denial of service attack.
2671 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
2672 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
2673 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
2675 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
2677 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2679 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
2680 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
2681 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2683 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
2684 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2686 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
2688 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
2689 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
2692 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
2693 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
2694 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
2695 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2697 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
2698 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
2699 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
2700 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
2702 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
2703 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
2704 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
2706 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
2708 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
2709 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
2710 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
2711 is at least 512 bytes long.
2713 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
2715 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
2717 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
2718 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
2719 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
2722 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
2723 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
2724 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
2727 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
2728 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
2729 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
2730 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
2731 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
2732 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
2733 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
2735 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
2737 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
2738 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
2739 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2741 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
2743 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
2745 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
2746 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
2747 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
2749 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2750 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2751 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
2752 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
2754 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2756 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
2757 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
2758 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
2759 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
2760 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
2764 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
2765 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
2768 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
2769 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2771 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
2772 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
2773 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
2774 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
2775 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
2777 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
2780 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
2784 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
2786 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
2787 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
2789 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
2790 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
2794 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
2795 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
2798 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
2802 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
2804 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
2805 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
2806 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
2807 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disablng
2808 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
2809 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
2810 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
2811 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
2812 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
2813 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
2816 *) In order to ensure interoperabilty SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
2817 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
2818 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
2819 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
2820 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
2821 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
2825 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
2827 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
2828 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
2829 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
2831 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
2832 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
2834 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
2836 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
2839 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
2840 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
2842 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
2843 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
2844 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
2845 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
2846 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
2847 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
2848 Most broken servers should now work.
2849 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
2850 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
2853 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
2856 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
2858 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
2859 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
2862 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
2863 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
2864 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
2865 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
2866 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
2869 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
2870 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
2871 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
2872 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
2873 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
2876 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
2877 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2879 *) Add support for SCTP.
2880 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2882 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2883 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2885 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
2887 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
2888 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
2889 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
2890 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
2891 - s390x: z196 support;
2892 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
2896 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
2897 (removal of unnecessary code)
2898 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
2900 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
2903 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
2906 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
2907 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
2908 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
2910 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2912 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
2913 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
2914 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
2915 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
2916 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
2918 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
2919 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
2920 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
2922 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
2923 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
2924 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
2926 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
2927 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
2929 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2931 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
2932 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
2933 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
2936 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
2937 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
2941 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
2942 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
2943 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
2946 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
2947 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
2948 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
2949 the appropriate parameters.
2952 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
2953 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
2954 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
2955 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
2956 against a number of sample certificates.
2959 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
2960 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
2962 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
2963 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
2965 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
2966 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
2970 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
2974 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
2975 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
2976 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
2977 password based CMS).
2980 *) Session-handling fixes:
2981 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
2982 but also support Session Tickets.
2983 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
2984 presented a ticket with an expired session.
2985 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
2986 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
2987 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
2988 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2990 *) Fix PSK session representation.
2993 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
2995 This work was sponsored by Intel.
2998 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
2999 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
3000 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
3001 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
3002 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
3005 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
3006 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
3009 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
3010 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
3011 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
3014 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
3015 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
3016 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
3017 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
3020 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
3021 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
3022 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
3025 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
3026 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
3028 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
3031 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
3032 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
3035 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
3038 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
3039 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
3042 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
3043 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
3046 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
3049 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
3050 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
3051 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
3054 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3057 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3060 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
3061 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
3064 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
3065 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
3066 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
3069 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
3072 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
3076 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
3077 FIPS modules versions.
3080 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
3081 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
3082 until after the certificate request message is received.
3085 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
3086 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
3087 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
3088 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
3091 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
3092 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
3093 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
3094 support yet and no support for client certificates.
3097 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
3098 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
3099 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
3100 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
3101 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
3102 and version checking.
3105 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
3106 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
3107 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
3108 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
3112 [Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
3114 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
3117 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
3118 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
3119 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3121 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
3122 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
3123 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
3126 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
3127 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
3129 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
3130 a few changes are required:
3132 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
3133 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
3134 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
3135 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
3136 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
3139 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
3141 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
3142 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
3143 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
3144 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
3145 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
3146 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
3147 an MMA defence is not necessary.
3148 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
3149 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
3152 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
3153 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
3154 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
3157 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
3159 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
3160 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
3161 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
3162 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
3165 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
3167 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
3168 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
3169 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
3170 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
3171 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
3172 paper describing this attack can be found at:
3173 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
3174 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3175 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3176 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
3177 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
3178 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
3179 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
3181 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
3183 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3185 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
3186 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
3187 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
3188 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3190 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
3191 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
3193 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
3194 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
3195 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
3196 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3198 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3199 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3201 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
3202 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3204 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
3205 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3207 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
3208 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
3209 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3211 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
3212 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
3213 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
3215 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
3216 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
3217 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
3218 the last update always remained unused).
3219 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3221 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
3222 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
3224 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
3226 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
3227 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
3228 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
3230 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
3231 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
3232 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3234 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
3237 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
3238 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
3239 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
3242 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
3243 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
3245 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
3247 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
3249 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
3251 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
3252 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3254 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
3255 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
3259 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
3261 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
3262 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
3263 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
3266 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
3267 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
3268 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
3271 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
3273 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
3274 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
3275 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
3278 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
3282 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
3284 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
3286 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
3288 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
3290 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
3291 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
3292 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
3295 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
3298 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
3299 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
3300 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
3302 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
3303 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
3304 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
3307 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
3308 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
3311 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
3312 some responders need this.
3315 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
3317 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3319 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
3320 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
3321 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
3324 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
3327 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
3328 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
3329 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
3330 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
3331 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
3332 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
3333 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
3334 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
3337 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
3338 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
3339 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
3340 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3342 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
3343 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
3345 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
3349 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
3350 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
3351 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
3352 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
3353 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
3354 attempting to work them out.
3357 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
3358 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
3359 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
3360 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
3363 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
3364 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
3365 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
3366 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
3367 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
3370 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
3371 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
3378 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
3380 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
3384 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
3385 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3387 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
3388 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
3390 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
3391 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
3392 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
3393 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
3394 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
3397 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
3398 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
3399 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
3402 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
3403 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
3406 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
3407 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
3409 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
3410 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
3413 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
3416 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
3417 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
3418 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
3422 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
3423 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
3424 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
3425 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
3426 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
3427 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
3430 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
3431 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
3433 This work was sponsored by Google.
3436 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
3437 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
3438 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
3439 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
3440 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
3441 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications won't
3442 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
3445 This work was sponsored by Google.
3448 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
3450 This work was sponsored by Google.
3453 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
3454 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
3455 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
3456 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
3458 This work was sponsored by Google.
3461 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
3462 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
3463 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
3464 CRL functionality in future.
3466 This work was sponsored by Google.
3469 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
3471 This work was sponsored by Google.
3474 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
3475 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
3477 This work was sponsored by Google.
3480 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
3481 and URI types are currently supported.
3483 This work was sponsored by Google.
3486 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
3487 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
3488 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
3489 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
3490 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
3491 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
3492 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
3493 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
3495 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
3496 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
3497 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
3499 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
3500 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
3501 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
3502 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
3504 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
3505 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
3506 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
3507 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
3508 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
3509 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
3510 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
3511 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
3513 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
3515 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
3516 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
3517 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
3519 This work was sponsored by Google.
3522 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
3525 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3526 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
3527 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
3530 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
3531 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
3534 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3535 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
3538 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
3539 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
3540 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
3541 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
3542 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
3543 content types and variants.
3546 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
3549 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
3550 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
3551 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
3552 files from the associated perl scripts.
3555 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
3556 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
3557 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3559 *) s390x assembler pack.
3562 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
3566 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
3567 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
3568 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
3569 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
3570 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
3571 to use. For example, specify an option
3573 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
3575 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
3576 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
3577 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
3578 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
3579 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
3580 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
3582 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
3583 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
3584 an interal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
3585 return non-zero for success.
3587 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
3590 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
3591 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
3595 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
3598 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
3599 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
3600 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
3601 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
3602 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
3603 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
3604 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
3605 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
3606 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
3608 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
3609 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
3610 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
3611 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
3612 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
3613 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
3615 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
3616 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
3617 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
3618 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
3619 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
3620 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
3624 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
3627 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3629 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
3630 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
3631 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
3634 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure