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 1.1.0h and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
12 *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
13 performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
14 security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
18 *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
19 handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
20 different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
21 mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
22 doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
23 multi-version installation is managed.
26 *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
27 EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
28 mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
29 When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
30 EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
33 *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
34 coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
35 chosen point SCA attacks.
36 [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
38 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
39 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
42 *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
43 length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
44 a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
47 *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
48 I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
49 can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
50 Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
51 TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
52 around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
53 It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
54 SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
55 SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
58 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
59 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
62 *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
63 pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
66 *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
67 binary and prime elliptic curves.
70 *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
71 constant time fixed point multiplication.
74 *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
75 defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
76 when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
77 in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
78 ECDH derive operations).
79 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida García,
82 *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
85 *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
86 randomness from the system.
89 *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
92 *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
93 loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
96 *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
99 *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
100 [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
102 *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
105 *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
106 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
107 SSL_set_ciphersuites()
110 *) Memory allocation failures consistenly add an error to the error
114 *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
115 in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
118 *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
121 *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
122 for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
123 [Matthias St. Pierre]
125 *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
126 for the license change).
129 *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
130 SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
133 *) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
134 configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
135 below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
136 In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
137 would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
138 configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
139 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
142 *) On POSIX (BSD, Linux, ...) systems the ocsp(1) command running
143 in responder mode now supports the new "-multi" option, which
144 spawns the specified number of child processes to handle OCSP
145 requests. The "-timeout" option now also limits the OCSP
146 responder's patience to wait to receive the full client request
147 on a newly accepted connection. Child processes are respawned
148 as needed, and the CA index file is automatically reloaded
149 when changed. This makes it possible to run the "ocsp" responder
150 as a long-running service, making the OpenSSL CA somewhat more
151 feature-complete. In this mode, most diagnostic messages logged
152 after entering the event loop are logged via syslog(3) rather than
156 *) Added support for X448 and Ed448. Heavily based on original work by
160 *) Extend OSSL_STORE with capabilities to search and to narrow the set of
161 objects loaded. This adds the functions OSSL_STORE_expect() and
162 OSSL_STORE_find() as well as needed tools to construct searches and
163 get the search data out of them.
166 *) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
167 version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
168 that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
169 https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/02/08/tlsv1.3/
171 NOTE: In this pre-release of OpenSSL a draft version of the
172 TLSv1.3 standard has been implemented. Implementations of different draft
173 versions of the standard do not inter-operate, and this version will not
174 inter-operate with an implementation of the final standard when it is
175 eventually published. Different pre-release versions may implement
176 different versions of the draft. The final version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 will
177 implement the final version of the standard.
178 TODO(TLS1.3): Remove the above note before final release
181 *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
183 The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
184 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially
185 a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0
186 object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator
187 using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself
188 automatically using trusted system entropy sources.
190 Some of its new features are:
191 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
192 o Add a public DRBG instance for the default RAND method.
193 o Add a dedicated DRBG instance for generating long term private keys.
194 o Make the DRBG instances fork-safe.
195 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
196 o Add a DRBG instance to every SSL instance for lock free operation
197 and to increase unpredictability.
198 [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
200 *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
201 so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script
202 to display all sorts of configuration data.
205 *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure.
208 *) Added SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 algorithm support.
211 *) The last traces of Netware support, first removed in 1.1.0, have
215 *) Get rid of Makefile.shared, and in the process, make the processing
216 of certain files (rc.obj, or the .def/.map/.opt files produced from
217 the ordinal files) more visible and hopefully easier to trace and
218 debug (or make silent).
221 *) Make it possible to have environment variable assignments as
222 arguments to config / Configure.
225 *) Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support.
228 *) Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
229 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
230 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
231 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
233 *) Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
234 as documented in RFC6066.
235 Based on a patch from Tomasz Moń
236 [Filipe Raimundo da Silva]
238 *) Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
239 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
240 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
241 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
243 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
244 original author does not agree with the license change.
247 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
250 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
251 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
254 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
255 without clearing the errors.
258 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
259 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
260 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
266 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
267 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
268 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
271 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
272 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
273 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
274 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
277 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
278 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
279 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
280 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
281 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
282 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
283 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
286 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
287 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
288 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
289 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
292 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
293 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
294 error code calls like this:
296 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
298 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
299 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
301 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
303 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
306 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
307 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
308 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
309 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
312 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
313 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
314 than just the call where this user data is passed.
317 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
319 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
321 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
322 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
323 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
324 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
325 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
326 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
327 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
331 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
332 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
333 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
337 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
338 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
339 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
341 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
345 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
346 platform rather than 'mingw'.
349 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
350 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
351 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
352 certificates and CRLs.
355 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
356 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
359 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
360 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
363 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
364 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
365 which is the minimum version we support.
368 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
369 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
370 are no longer allowed.
373 *) Add support for ARIA
376 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
377 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
378 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
382 *) Add support for SipHash
385 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
386 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
387 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
388 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
391 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
392 using the algorithm defined in
393 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
396 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
397 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
399 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
402 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
403 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
407 Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
409 *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
411 Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
412 through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
413 signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
414 line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
415 at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
416 some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
417 and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
418 could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
419 OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
420 signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
421 OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
422 and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
423 the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
426 Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
428 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
430 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
431 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
432 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
433 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
434 so this is considered safe.
436 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
441 *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
443 Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
444 effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
445 byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
446 authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
447 security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
448 HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
450 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
455 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
456 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
457 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
458 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
461 *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
463 OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
464 (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
465 changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
466 SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
467 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
469 Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
470 using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
471 accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
474 *) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
478 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
480 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
481 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
482 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
483 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
484 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
485 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
486 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
487 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
488 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
489 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
491 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
492 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
494 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
495 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
499 Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
501 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
503 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
504 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
505 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
506 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
507 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
508 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
509 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
510 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
511 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
512 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
513 key that is shared between multiple clients.
515 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
516 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
518 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
522 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
524 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
525 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
526 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
528 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
532 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
534 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
535 platform rather than 'mingw'.
538 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
539 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
540 which is the minimum version we support.
543 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
545 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
547 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
548 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
549 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
550 and servers are affected.
552 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
556 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
558 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
560 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
561 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
562 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
564 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
568 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
570 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
571 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
572 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
575 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
579 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
581 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
582 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
583 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
584 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
585 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
586 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
587 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
588 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
589 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
590 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
591 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
592 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
593 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
595 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
599 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
601 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
603 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
604 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
605 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
607 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
611 *) CMS Null dereference
613 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
614 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
615 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
616 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
617 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
620 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
624 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
626 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
627 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
628 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
629 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
630 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
631 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
632 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
633 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
634 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
635 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
636 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
637 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
638 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
639 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
641 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
642 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
643 providing reproducible case.
647 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
648 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
651 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
653 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
655 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
656 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
657 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
658 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
659 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
660 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
662 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
664 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
668 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
670 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
672 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
673 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
674 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
675 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
676 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
677 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
678 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
680 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
684 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
686 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
687 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
688 Denial Of Service attack.
690 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
694 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
695 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
697 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
698 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
699 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
700 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
701 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
702 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
703 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
704 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
705 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
706 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
707 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
708 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
709 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
710 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
711 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
713 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
714 that the connection fails
716 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
717 very little free memory
719 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
720 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
721 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
722 memory to service the multiple requests.
724 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
725 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
726 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
727 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
728 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
730 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
731 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
734 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
735 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
736 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
737 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
738 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
739 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
740 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
743 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
745 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
746 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
747 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
748 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
749 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
753 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
754 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
755 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
758 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
759 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
760 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
761 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
764 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
765 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
769 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
770 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
771 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
772 no-ops and deprecated.
775 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
776 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
778 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
780 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
781 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
782 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
785 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
786 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
787 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
788 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
789 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
790 and the validity of object reference counter.
791 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
793 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
794 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
795 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
796 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
799 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
802 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
803 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
804 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
805 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
807 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
811 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
812 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
815 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
818 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
821 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
822 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
823 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
824 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
825 name and is used as is.
828 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
829 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
830 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
833 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
834 the "no-shared" Configure option.
837 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
838 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
842 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
843 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
844 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
845 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
846 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
847 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
848 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
849 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
853 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
854 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
855 enabled with '--debug' builds.
856 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
858 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
859 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
860 these have been added.
863 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
864 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
865 functions for managing these have been added.
868 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
869 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
870 these have been added.
873 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
874 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
878 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
881 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
884 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
885 it is always safe to #include a header now.
888 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
891 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
894 *) Add support for HKDF.
897 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
900 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
901 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
902 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
903 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
904 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
905 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
906 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
909 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
910 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
911 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
914 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
915 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
916 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
917 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
918 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
919 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
920 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
922 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
923 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
926 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
929 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
930 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
931 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
932 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
933 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
934 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
938 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
939 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
942 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
943 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
944 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
947 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
948 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
949 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
950 implemented by other servers.
953 *) Add X25519 support.
954 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
955 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
956 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
957 key generation and key derivation.
959 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
963 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
964 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
965 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
966 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
967 seed, even if the seed is configured.
969 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
970 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
971 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
972 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
973 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
974 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
975 that of a valid user.
978 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
979 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
980 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
981 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
983 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
984 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
986 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
987 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
988 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
989 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
991 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
992 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
996 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
997 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
998 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
999 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
1000 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
1001 of how OpenSSL was configured.
1003 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
1004 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
1005 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
1008 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
1011 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
1012 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
1013 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
1017 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
1018 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
1019 old #define's might need to be updated.
1020 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
1022 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
1025 *) New "unified" build system
1027 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
1028 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
1030 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
1031 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
1032 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
1034 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
1035 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
1036 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
1037 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
1040 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
1041 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
1042 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
1043 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
1044 libraries" in INSTALL.
1046 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
1049 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
1050 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
1051 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
1052 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
1055 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
1056 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
1058 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
1059 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
1060 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
1061 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
1062 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
1063 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
1064 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
1065 have been adapted accordingly.
1068 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
1072 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
1073 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
1074 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
1075 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
1078 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
1079 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
1080 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
1084 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
1085 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
1088 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
1089 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
1090 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
1092 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
1093 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
1094 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
1096 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
1097 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
1099 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
1100 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
1101 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
1102 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
1105 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
1106 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
1107 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
1108 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
1109 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
1113 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
1114 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
1115 straightforward and less interdependent.
1117 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
1118 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
1119 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
1121 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
1122 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
1123 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
1125 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
1126 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
1127 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
1128 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
1130 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
1131 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
1134 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
1135 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
1136 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
1137 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
1141 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
1143 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
1145 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
1146 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
1147 before trying to build now.*
1150 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
1154 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
1156 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
1157 the application's responsibility. The application provides
1158 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
1159 used to authenticate the peer.
1161 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
1162 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
1163 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
1164 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
1165 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
1168 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
1169 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
1170 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
1171 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
1172 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
1173 or the 1.1.0 releases.
1175 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
1176 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
1177 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
1178 support for the deprecated features from the library and
1179 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
1180 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
1181 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
1182 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
1185 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
1186 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
1187 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
1188 compile with later releases.
1190 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
1191 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
1192 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
1193 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
1194 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
1197 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
1198 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
1199 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
1200 MaxProtocol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
1201 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
1202 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
1203 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
1204 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
1207 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
1210 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
1211 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
1212 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
1215 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
1216 include the ec.h header file instead.
1219 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
1220 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
1221 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
1224 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
1225 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
1228 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
1229 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
1231 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
1232 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
1233 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
1236 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
1237 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
1238 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
1239 an already created structure.
1240 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
1241 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
1242 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
1243 for deprecated builds.
1246 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
1247 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
1248 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
1249 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
1250 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
1251 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
1252 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
1255 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
1256 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
1257 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
1258 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
1261 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
1262 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
1265 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
1266 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
1269 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
1270 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
1271 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
1272 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
1273 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
1274 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
1275 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
1279 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
1280 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
1281 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
1284 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
1287 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
1289 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
1291 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
1293 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
1294 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
1302 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
1303 set a mandatory field to NULL.
1305 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
1306 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
1307 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
1311 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
1314 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
1315 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
1316 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
1317 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
1320 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1321 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1322 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1323 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1326 *) Fix no-stdio build.
1327 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
1328 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
1330 *) New testing framework
1331 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
1332 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
1333 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
1334 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
1335 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
1336 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
1338 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
1340 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
1341 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
1345 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
1346 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
1347 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
1348 and others were changed. All are now documented.
1351 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1353 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1355 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
1356 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1358 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1359 original RSA_PSK patch.
1362 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1363 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1364 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1365 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1368 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1369 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1372 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1373 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1374 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1377 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1378 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1379 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1380 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1384 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1385 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1386 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1387 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1390 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1391 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1392 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1393 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1394 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1395 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1398 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1399 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1400 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1401 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1402 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1403 header file has been removed.
1406 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1407 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1410 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1411 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1412 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1414 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1418 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1421 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1425 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1428 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1429 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1430 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1433 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1434 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1435 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1436 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1439 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1440 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1441 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1442 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1443 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1444 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1447 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1448 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1449 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1450 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1453 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1454 compatible client hello.
1457 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1458 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1459 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1461 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1464 *) Removed old DES API.
1467 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1473 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1478 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1481 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1482 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1483 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1484 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1485 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1486 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1487 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1488 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1489 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1490 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1491 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1494 *) Cleaned up dead code
1495 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1498 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1499 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1500 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1503 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1504 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1505 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1508 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1509 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1510 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1512 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1513 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1514 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1516 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1518 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1520 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1521 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1522 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1524 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1525 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1527 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1528 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1531 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1532 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1533 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1534 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1536 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1537 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1538 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1539 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1541 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1542 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1543 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1545 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1546 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1549 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1551 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1552 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1554 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1555 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1557 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1560 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1564 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1565 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1566 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1567 algorithms and include tests cases.
1570 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1574 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1575 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1578 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1579 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1581 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1582 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1585 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1586 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1590 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1591 sign or verify all in one operation.
1594 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1595 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1596 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1599 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1602 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1605 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1606 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1607 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1608 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1609 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1612 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1616 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1617 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1618 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1621 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1624 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1625 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1628 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1629 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1632 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1633 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1634 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1637 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1638 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1639 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1640 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1641 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1642 requested amount of entropy.
1645 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1646 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1649 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1650 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1651 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1655 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1656 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1657 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1660 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1661 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1662 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1663 will never use XTS mode.
1666 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1667 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1668 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1669 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1670 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1671 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1674 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
1675 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
1676 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
1677 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
1680 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
1681 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
1682 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
1685 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
1688 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
1691 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
1692 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
1695 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
1696 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
1699 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
1700 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
1703 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
1704 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
1705 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
1706 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
1707 and rename any affected symbols.
1710 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
1711 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
1714 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
1715 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
1716 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
1719 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
1722 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
1723 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
1724 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
1727 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
1728 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
1731 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
1732 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
1733 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
1734 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
1735 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
1736 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
1740 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
1741 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
1742 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
1743 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
1744 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
1745 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
1746 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
1747 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
1750 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
1751 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
1754 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
1756 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1757 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1759 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
1760 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
1761 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
1762 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
1763 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
1764 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
1766 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
1767 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
1768 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
1770 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
1772 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
1776 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
1777 Add CMAC pkey methods.
1780 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
1781 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
1782 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
1785 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
1786 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
1787 multi-process servers.
1790 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
1791 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
1792 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
1793 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
1794 RAND_METHOD structure.
1797 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
1798 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
1799 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
1800 whose return value is often ignored.
1803 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
1804 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
1805 validated when establishing a connection.
1806 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
1808 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
1810 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
1812 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
1813 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
1816 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
1817 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
1818 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
1819 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
1820 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
1823 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
1827 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
1829 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
1830 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
1831 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
1834 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
1835 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
1836 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
1837 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
1838 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
1839 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
1841 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1845 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
1847 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
1848 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
1849 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
1850 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
1851 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
1852 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
1853 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
1854 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
1855 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
1856 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
1857 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
1858 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
1859 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
1860 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
1861 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
1862 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
1864 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1868 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
1870 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
1871 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
1872 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
1874 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
1875 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
1876 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
1877 applications are not affected.
1879 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
1885 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
1886 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
1887 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
1889 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1893 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1894 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1897 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
1901 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
1902 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
1905 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
1907 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
1908 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
1909 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
1912 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
1913 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
1914 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
1915 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
1916 will need to explicitly call either of:
1918 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1920 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1922 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
1923 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
1924 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
1925 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
1926 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
1930 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
1932 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
1933 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
1934 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
1937 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
1942 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
1944 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
1946 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1947 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
1948 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
1951 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1952 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1953 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1954 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1955 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1956 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1957 that of a valid user.
1961 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
1963 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
1964 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
1965 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
1966 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
1967 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
1968 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
1969 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
1970 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
1971 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
1972 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
1973 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
1975 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
1976 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
1977 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
1978 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
1979 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
1981 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
1985 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
1987 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
1988 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
1989 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
1991 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
1992 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
1993 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
1994 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
1995 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
1998 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
1999 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
2000 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
2001 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
2002 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
2003 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
2004 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
2005 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
2006 as command line arguments.
2008 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
2009 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
2010 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
2012 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
2016 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
2018 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
2019 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
2020 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
2021 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
2022 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
2024 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
2025 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
2026 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
2027 http://cachebleed.info.
2031 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
2032 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
2033 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
2034 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
2037 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
2038 *) DH small subgroups
2040 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
2041 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
2042 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
2043 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
2044 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
2045 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
2046 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
2047 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
2048 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
2049 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
2051 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
2052 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
2053 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
2054 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
2055 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
2057 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
2058 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
2059 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
2060 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
2062 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
2063 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
2065 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
2069 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
2071 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
2072 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
2073 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
2076 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
2077 and Sebastian Schinzel.
2081 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
2083 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
2085 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
2086 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
2087 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
2088 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
2089 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
2090 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
2091 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
2092 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
2093 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
2094 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
2095 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
2096 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
2098 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
2102 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
2104 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2105 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2106 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
2107 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
2108 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
2109 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
2110 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
2113 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
2117 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
2119 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
2120 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
2121 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
2122 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
2124 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
2129 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
2130 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
2131 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
2132 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
2135 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
2137 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
2139 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
2141 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
2143 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
2144 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
2145 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
2146 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
2147 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
2148 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
2150 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
2154 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
2156 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
2157 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
2161 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
2163 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
2165 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
2166 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
2169 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
2170 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
2171 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
2172 client authentication enabled.
2174 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
2178 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
2180 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
2181 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
2182 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
2185 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
2186 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
2187 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
2188 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
2189 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
2192 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
2193 independently by Hanno Böck.
2197 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
2199 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
2200 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
2201 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2203 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
2204 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
2205 servers are not affected.
2207 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2211 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
2213 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
2214 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
2215 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
2217 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
2221 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
2223 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
2224 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
2225 a double free of the ticket data.
2229 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
2230 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
2231 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
2234 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
2236 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
2238 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
2239 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
2240 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
2242 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
2245 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
2247 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
2249 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
2250 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
2251 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
2252 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
2253 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
2254 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
2255 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
2256 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
2258 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
2262 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
2264 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
2265 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
2266 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
2267 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
2268 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
2269 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
2270 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
2271 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
2274 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
2278 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
2280 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
2281 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
2282 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
2283 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2284 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2285 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2289 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
2291 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2292 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2293 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
2294 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
2295 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2296 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2297 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2299 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
2303 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
2305 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
2306 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
2307 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
2309 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
2310 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
2311 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
2316 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
2318 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
2319 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
2320 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2322 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
2323 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
2324 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
2326 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2330 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
2332 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
2333 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
2334 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
2336 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
2337 (OpenSSL development team).
2341 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
2343 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
2344 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
2345 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
2349 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
2351 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
2352 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
2353 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
2354 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
2355 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
2356 SSL_client_methodv23)
2357 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2358 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2360 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2361 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2362 output may be predictable.
2364 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2365 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2367 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2371 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2373 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2374 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2375 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2376 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2377 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2378 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2380 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2385 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2387 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2388 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2390 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2394 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2397 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2399 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2400 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2401 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2402 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2403 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2404 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2407 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2408 (other platforms pending).
2409 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2411 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2412 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2415 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2416 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2417 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2420 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2421 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2422 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2423 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2426 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2427 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2429 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2430 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2431 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2432 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2433 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2435 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2438 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2439 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2440 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2441 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2443 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2445 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2447 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2448 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2449 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2452 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2455 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2456 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2457 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2460 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2461 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2464 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2465 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2468 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2469 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2470 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2471 algorithms and include tests cases.
2474 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2476 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2478 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2479 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2482 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2483 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2484 summary of the connection parameters.
2487 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2488 of connection parameters.
2491 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2492 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2494 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2495 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2498 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2501 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2502 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2505 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2506 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2509 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2513 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2514 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2515 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2518 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2521 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2522 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2525 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2526 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2527 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2531 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2532 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2535 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2539 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2543 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2544 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2545 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2546 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2549 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2550 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2553 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2554 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2555 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2559 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2560 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2561 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2562 use the certificate.
2565 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2568 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2569 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2570 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2571 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2572 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2573 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2574 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2576 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2577 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2581 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2582 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2583 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2586 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2587 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2588 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2589 supported signature algorithms.
2592 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2595 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2596 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2597 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2598 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2599 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2600 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2601 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2604 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2605 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2606 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2607 to have similar checks in it.
2609 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2610 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2611 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2612 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2613 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2616 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2617 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2618 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2619 shared signature algorithms.
2622 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2623 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2627 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2628 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2629 it couldn't be removed.
2632 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2633 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2636 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2637 functions. Add manual page.
2638 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2640 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2641 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2645 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2646 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2648 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2649 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2650 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2651 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2655 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2656 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2659 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2660 platform support for Linux and Android.
2663 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2666 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2667 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2668 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2669 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2670 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2673 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2674 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
2675 the new parameter format automatically.
2678 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
2679 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
2682 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
2685 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
2686 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
2687 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
2688 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
2689 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
2692 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
2693 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
2694 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
2695 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
2696 to set list of supported curves.
2699 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
2700 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
2701 to print out received values.
2704 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
2705 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
2706 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
2709 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
2710 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
2713 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
2714 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
2717 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
2721 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
2723 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
2724 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
2725 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
2727 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
2729 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
2730 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
2732 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
2734 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
2735 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
2736 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
2737 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
2741 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
2742 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
2743 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
2744 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
2745 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
2746 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
2750 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
2751 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
2752 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
2753 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
2757 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
2760 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
2761 reporting this issue.
2765 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
2766 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
2767 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
2768 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
2769 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
2770 INRIA or reporting this issue.
2774 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
2775 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
2776 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
2777 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
2778 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
2779 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
2780 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
2785 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
2786 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
2788 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
2789 and can vary with the CTX.
2792 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
2794 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
2795 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
2796 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
2797 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
2798 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
2800 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
2802 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
2803 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
2805 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
2807 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
2808 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
2809 errors for some broken certificates.
2811 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
2813 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
2815 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
2816 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
2818 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
2819 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
2820 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
2821 (negative or with leading zeroes).
2823 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
2824 of the OpenSSL core team.
2829 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
2830 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
2831 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
2832 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
2833 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
2834 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
2835 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
2836 the OpenSSL core team.
2840 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
2841 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
2842 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
2843 sanity and breaks all known clients.
2844 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
2846 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
2847 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
2848 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
2851 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
2852 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
2853 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2854 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
2855 announced in the initial ServerHello.
2857 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
2858 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2859 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
2862 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
2864 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
2866 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
2867 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
2868 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
2869 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
2870 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
2871 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
2872 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
2874 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
2878 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
2880 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
2881 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
2882 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
2883 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
2884 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
2889 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
2891 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
2892 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
2893 configured to send them.
2895 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
2897 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
2898 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
2899 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
2901 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2903 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
2905 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
2906 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
2907 DigestInfo structures.
2909 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
2913 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
2915 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
2916 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
2917 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
2919 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
2920 Group for discovering this issue.
2924 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
2925 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
2926 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
2927 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
2928 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
2930 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
2931 researching this issue.
2935 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
2936 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
2937 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
2938 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
2940 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
2945 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
2946 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2947 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2951 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
2952 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
2953 Denial of Service attack.
2954 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2958 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
2959 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
2960 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2961 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
2966 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
2967 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
2968 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
2970 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
2975 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
2976 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
2977 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
2978 Denial of Service attack.
2980 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
2981 discovering and researching this issue.
2985 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
2986 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
2987 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
2988 output to the attacker.
2990 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
2992 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
2994 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2995 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2996 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2999 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
3001 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
3002 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
3003 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
3005 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
3006 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
3007 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
3009 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
3010 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
3013 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
3015 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
3017 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
3018 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
3019 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
3020 code on a vulnerable client or server.
3022 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
3023 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
3025 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
3026 are subject to a denial of service attack.
3028 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
3029 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
3030 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
3032 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
3034 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3036 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
3037 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
3038 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3040 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
3041 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3043 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
3045 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
3046 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
3049 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
3050 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
3051 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
3052 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3054 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
3055 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
3056 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
3057 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
3059 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
3060 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
3061 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
3063 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
3065 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
3066 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
3067 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
3068 is at least 512 bytes long.
3070 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
3072 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
3074 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
3075 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
3076 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
3079 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
3080 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
3081 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
3084 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
3085 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
3086 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
3087 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
3088 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
3089 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
3090 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
3092 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
3094 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
3095 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
3096 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3098 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
3100 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
3102 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
3103 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
3104 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
3106 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3107 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3108 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
3109 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
3111 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3113 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
3114 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
3115 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
3116 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
3117 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
3121 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
3122 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
3125 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
3126 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3128 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
3129 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
3130 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
3131 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
3132 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
3134 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
3137 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
3141 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
3143 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
3144 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
3146 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
3147 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
3151 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
3152 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
3155 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
3159 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
3161 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
3162 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
3163 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
3164 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disabling
3165 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
3166 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
3167 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
3168 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
3169 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
3170 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
3173 *) In order to ensure interoperability SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
3174 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
3175 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
3176 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
3177 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
3178 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
3182 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
3184 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
3185 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
3186 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
3188 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
3189 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
3191 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
3193 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
3196 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
3197 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
3199 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
3200 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
3201 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
3202 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
3203 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
3204 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
3205 Most broken servers should now work.
3206 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
3207 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
3210 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
3213 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
3215 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
3216 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
3219 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
3220 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
3221 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
3222 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
3223 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
3226 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
3227 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
3228 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
3229 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
3230 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
3233 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
3234 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3236 *) Add support for SCTP.
3237 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3239 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3240 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3242 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
3244 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
3245 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
3246 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
3247 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
3248 - s390x: z196 support;
3249 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
3253 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
3254 (removal of unnecessary code)
3255 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
3257 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
3260 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
3263 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
3264 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
3265 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
3267 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3269 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
3270 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
3271 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
3272 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
3273 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
3275 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
3276 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
3277 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
3279 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
3280 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
3281 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
3283 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
3284 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
3286 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3288 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
3289 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
3290 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
3293 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
3294 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
3298 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
3299 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
3300 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
3303 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
3304 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
3305 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
3306 the appropriate parameters.
3309 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
3310 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
3311 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
3312 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
3313 against a number of sample certificates.
3316 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
3317 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
3319 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
3320 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
3322 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
3323 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
3327 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
3331 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
3332 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
3333 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
3334 password based CMS).
3337 *) Session-handling fixes:
3338 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
3339 but also support Session Tickets.
3340 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
3341 presented a ticket with an expired session.
3342 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
3343 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
3344 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
3345 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3347 *) Fix PSK session representation.
3350 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
3352 This work was sponsored by Intel.
3355 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
3356 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
3357 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
3358 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
3359 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
3362 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
3363 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
3366 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
3367 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
3368 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
3371 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
3372 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
3373 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
3374 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
3377 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
3378 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
3379 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
3382 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
3383 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
3385 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
3388 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
3389 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
3392 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
3395 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
3396 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
3399 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
3400 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
3403 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
3406 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
3407 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
3408 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
3411 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3414 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3417 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
3418 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
3421 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
3422 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
3423 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
3426 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
3429 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
3433 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
3434 FIPS modules versions.
3437 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
3438 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
3439 until after the certificate request message is received.
3442 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
3443 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
3444 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
3445 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
3448 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
3449 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
3450 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
3451 support yet and no support for client certificates.
3454 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
3455 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
3456 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
3457 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
3458 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
3459 and version checking.
3462 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
3463 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
3464 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
3465 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
3468 *) A long standing patch to add support for SRP from EdelWeb (Peter
3469 Sylvester and Christophe Renou) was integrated.
3470 [Christophe Renou <christophe.renou@edelweb.fr>, Peter Sylvester
3471 <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>, Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu>, and
3474 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
3477 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
3478 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
3479 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3481 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
3482 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
3483 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
3486 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
3487 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
3489 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
3490 a few changes are required:
3492 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
3493 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
3494 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
3495 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
3496 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
3499 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
3501 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
3502 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
3503 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
3504 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
3505 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
3506 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
3507 an MMA defence is not necessary.
3508 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
3509 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
3512 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
3513 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
3514 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
3517 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
3519 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
3520 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
3521 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
3522 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
3525 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
3527 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
3528 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
3529 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
3530 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
3531 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
3532 paper describing this attack can be found at:
3533 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
3534 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3535 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3536 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
3537 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
3538 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
3539 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
3541 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
3543 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3545 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
3546 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
3547 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
3548 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3550 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
3551 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
3553 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
3554 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
3555 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
3556 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3558 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3559 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3561 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
3562 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3564 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
3565 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3567 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
3568 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
3569 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3571 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
3572 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
3573 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
3575 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
3576 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
3577 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
3578 the last update always remained unused).
3579 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3581 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
3582 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
3584 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
3586 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
3587 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
3588 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
3590 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
3591 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
3592 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3594 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
3597 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
3598 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
3599 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
3602 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
3603 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
3605 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
3607 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
3609 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
3611 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
3612 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3614 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
3615 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
3619 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
3621 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
3622 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
3623 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
3626 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
3627 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
3628 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
3631 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
3633 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
3634 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
3635 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
3638 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
3642 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
3644 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
3646 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
3648 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
3650 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
3651 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
3652 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
3655 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
3658 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
3659 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
3660 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
3662 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
3663 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
3664 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
3667 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
3668 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
3671 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
3672 some responders need this.
3675 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
3677 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3679 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
3680 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
3681 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
3684 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
3687 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
3688 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
3689 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
3690 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
3691 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
3692 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
3693 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
3694 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
3697 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
3698 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
3699 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
3700 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3702 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
3703 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
3705 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
3709 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
3710 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
3711 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
3712 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
3713 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
3714 attempting to work them out.
3717 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
3718 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
3719 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
3720 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
3723 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
3724 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
3725 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
3726 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
3727 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
3730 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
3731 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
3738 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
3740 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
3744 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
3745 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3747 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
3748 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
3750 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
3751 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
3752 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
3753 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
3754 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
3757 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
3758 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
3759 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
3762 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
3763 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
3766 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
3767 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
3769 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
3770 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
3773 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
3776 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
3777 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
3778 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
3782 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
3783 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
3784 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
3785 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
3786 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
3787 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
3790 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
3791 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
3793 This work was sponsored by Google.
3796 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
3797 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
3798 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
3799 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
3800 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
3801 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications won't
3802 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
3805 This work was sponsored by Google.
3808 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
3810 This work was sponsored by Google.
3813 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
3814 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
3815 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
3816 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
3818 This work was sponsored by Google.
3821 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
3822 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
3823 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
3824 CRL functionality in future.
3826 This work was sponsored by Google.
3829 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
3831 This work was sponsored by Google.
3834 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
3835 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
3837 This work was sponsored by Google.
3840 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
3841 and URI types are currently supported.
3843 This work was sponsored by Google.
3846 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
3847 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
3848 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
3849 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
3850 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
3851 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
3852 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
3853 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
3855 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
3856 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
3857 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
3859 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
3860 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
3861 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
3862 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
3864 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
3865 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
3866 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
3867 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
3868 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
3869 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
3870 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
3871 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
3873 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
3875 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
3876 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
3877 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
3879 This work was sponsored by Google.
3882 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
3885 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3886 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
3887 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
3890 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
3891 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
3894 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3895 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
3898 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
3899 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
3900 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
3901 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
3902 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
3903 content types and variants.
3906 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
3909 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
3910 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
3911 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
3912 files from the associated perl scripts.
3915 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
3916 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
3917 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3919 *) s390x assembler pack.
3922 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
3926 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
3927 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
3928 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
3929 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
3930 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
3931 to use. For example, specify an option
3933 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
3935 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
3936 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
3937 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
3938 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
3939 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
3940 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
3942 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
3943 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
3944 an internal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
3945 return non-zero for success.
3947 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
3950 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
3951 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
3955 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
3958 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
3959 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
3960 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
3961 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
3962 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
3963 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
3964 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
3965 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
3966 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
3968 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
3969 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
3970 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
3971 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
3972 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
3973 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
3975 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
3976 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
3977 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
3978 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
3979 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
3980 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
3984 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
3987 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3989 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
3990 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
3991 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
3994 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
3995 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
3998 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
3999 protection in servers so again support should be possible
4000 with no application modification.
4002 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
4003 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
4005 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
4006 or server extensions to be examined.
4008 This work was sponsored by Google.
4011 *) Final changes to avoid use of pointer pointer casts in OpenSSL.
4012 OpenSSL should now compile cleanly on gcc 4.2
4013 [Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>, Steve Henson]
4015 *) Update SSL library to use new EVP_PKEY MAC API. Include generic MAC
4016 support including streaming MAC support: this is required for GOST
4017 ciphersuite support.
4018 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>, Steve Henson]
4020 *) Add option -stream to use PKCS#7 streaming in smime utility. New
4021 function i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream() and PEM_write_PKCS7_bio_stream()
4022 to output in BER and PEM format.
4025 *) Experimental support for use of HMAC via EVP_PKEY interface. This
4026 allows HMAC to be handled via the EVP_DigestSign*() interface. The
4027 EVP_PKEY "key" in this case is the HMAC key, potentially allowing
4028 ENGINE support for HMAC keys which are unextractable. New -mac and
4029 -macopt options to dgst utility.
4032 *) New option -sigopt to dgst utility. Update dgst to use
4033 EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}*. These two changes make it possible to use
4034 alternative signing parameters such as X9.31 or PSS in the dgst
4038 *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
4039 the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
4040 ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
4041 removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
4042 the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
4043 that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
4044 in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
4045 than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
4048 This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
4049 the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
4050 order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
4051 most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
4053 Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
4054 functionality) such that between otherwise identical
4055 ciphersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
4059 *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
4060 arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
4061 to process the rule string. Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
4062 (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
4063 remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
4064 This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
4065 in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
4066 that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
4067 [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
4069 *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
4070 processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
4071 "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
4072 "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
4073 (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
4074 away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
4075 change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
4076 affect applications.) This give us more bits for each of these
4077 categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
4078 AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
4079 and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
4082 Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
4083 0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
4084 out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
4086 With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
4087 so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
4091 *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
4092 Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
4093 larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
4096 *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
4097 it yet and it is largely untested.
4100 *) Add support for the ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
4103 *) Initial incomplete changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL
4104 some compilers (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use. Safestack is
4105 reimplemented. Update ASN1 to avoid use of legacy functions.
4108 *) Win32/64 targets are linked with Winsock2.
4111 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
4112 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
4113 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
4114 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
4117 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
4118 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
4119 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
4120 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
4121 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
4124 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
4125 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
4128 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
4129 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
4130 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
4131 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
4134 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
4135 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
4136 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
4137 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
4140 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
4141 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
4144 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
4145 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
4146 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
4147 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
4150 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
4151 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
4152 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
4155 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
4159 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
4160 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
4163 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
4164 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
4165 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
4169 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
4170 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
4171 to free up any added signature OIDs.
4174 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
4175 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
4176 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
4177 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
4180 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
4181 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
4182 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
4183 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
4184 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
4185 the array representation useful in a more general context.
4188 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
4189 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
4190 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
4191 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
4192 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
4194 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
4195 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
4196 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
4197 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
4198 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
4201 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
4202 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
4203 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
4204 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case:
4206 kECDHr - ECDH cert, signed with RSA
4207 kECDHe - ECDH cert, signed with ECDSA
4208 kECDH - ECDH cert (signed with either RSA or ECDSA)
4209 kEECDH - ephemeral ECDH
4210 ECDH - ECDH cert or ephemeral ECDH
4216 AECDH - anonymous ECDH
4217 EECDH - non-anonymous ephemeral ECDH (equivalent to "kEECDH:-AECDH")
4221 *) Add additional S/MIME capabilities for AES and GOST ciphers if supported.
4222 Use correct micalg parameters depending on digest(s) in signed message.
4225 *) Add engine support for EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. Add functions to process
4226 an ENGINE asn1 method. Support ENGINE lookups in the ASN1 code.
4229 *) Initial engine support for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. New functions to permit
4230 an engine to register a method. Add ENGINE lookups for methods and
4231 functional reference processing.
4234 *) New functions EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify)*. These are enhanced versions of
4235 EVP_{Sign,Verify}* which allow an application to customise the signature
4239 *) New -resign option to smime utility. This adds one or more signers
4240 to an existing PKCS#7 signedData structure. Also -md option to use an
4241 alternative message digest algorithm for signing.
4244 *) Tidy up PKCS#7 routines and add new functions to make it easier to
4245 create PKCS7 structures containing multiple signers. Update smime
4246 application to support multiple signers.
4249 *) New -macalg option to pkcs12 utility to allow setting of an alternative
4253 *) Initial support for PKCS#5 v2.0 PRFs other than default SHA1 HMAC.
4254 Reorganize PBE internals to lookup from a static table using NIDs,
4255 add support for HMAC PBE OID translation. Add a EVP_CIPHER ctrl:
4256 EVP_CTRL_PBE_PRF_NID this allows a cipher to specify an alternative
4257 PRF which will be automatically used with PBES2.
4260 *) Replace the algorithm specific calls to generate keys in "req" with the
4264 *) Update PKCS#7 enveloped data routines to use new API. This is now
4265 supported by any public key method supporting the encrypt operation. A
4266 ctrl is added to allow the public key algorithm to examine or modify
4267 the PKCS#7 RecipientInfo structure if it needs to: for RSA this is
4271 *) Add a ctrl to asn1 method to allow a public key algorithm to express
4272 a default digest type to use. In most cases this will be SHA1 but some
4273 algorithms (such as GOST) need to specify an alternative digest. The
4274 return value indicates how strong the preference is 1 means optional and
4275 2 is mandatory (that is it is the only supported type). Modify
4276 ASN1_item_sign() to accept a NULL digest argument to indicate it should
4277 use the default md. Update openssl utilities to use the default digest
4278 type for signing if it is not explicitly indicated.
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