5 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
7 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
8 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
9 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
12 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
13 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
14 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
15 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
16 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
17 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
18 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
21 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
22 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
23 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers.
26 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
27 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
30 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
31 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
34 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
35 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
36 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
37 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
38 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
39 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
40 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
44 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
45 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
46 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
49 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
52 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron and sureware.
55 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
57 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
58 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
66 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
67 set a mandatory field to NULL.
69 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
70 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
71 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
75 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
78 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
79 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
80 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
81 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
84 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
85 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
86 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
87 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
90 *) Fix no-stdio build.
91 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
92 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
94 *) New testing framework
95 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
96 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
97 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
98 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
99 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
100 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
102 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
104 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
105 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
109 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
111 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
113 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
114 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
116 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
117 original RSA_PSK patch.
120 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
121 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
122 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
123 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
126 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
127 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
130 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
131 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
132 hasn't been working properly for a while.
135 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
136 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
137 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
138 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
142 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
143 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
144 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
145 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
148 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
149 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
150 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
151 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
152 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
153 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
156 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
157 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
158 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
159 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
160 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
161 header file has been removed.
164 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
165 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
168 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
169 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
170 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
172 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
176 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
179 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
182 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
183 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
184 initial patch which was a great help during development.
187 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
188 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
189 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
190 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
193 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
194 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
195 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
196 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
197 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
198 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
201 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
202 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
203 at https://www.openssl.org/docs/misc/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
204 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
207 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
208 compatible client hello.
211 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
212 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
213 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
215 *) CA.sh has been removmed; use CA.pl instead.
218 *) Removed old DES API.
221 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
227 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
232 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
235 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
236 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
237 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
238 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
239 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
240 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
241 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
242 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
243 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
244 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
245 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
248 *) Cleaned up dead code
249 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
252 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
253 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
254 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
257 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
258 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
259 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
262 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
263 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
264 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
266 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
267 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
268 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
270 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
272 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
274 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
275 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
276 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
278 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
279 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
281 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
282 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
285 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
286 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
287 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
288 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
290 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
291 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
292 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
293 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
295 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
296 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
297 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
299 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
300 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
303 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
305 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
306 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
308 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
309 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
311 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
314 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
318 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
319 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
320 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
321 algorithms and include tests cases.
324 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
328 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
329 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
332 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
333 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
335 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
336 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
339 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
340 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
344 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
345 sign or verify all in one operation.
348 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
349 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
350 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
353 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
356 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
359 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
360 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
361 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
362 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
363 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
366 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
370 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
371 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
372 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
375 *) Add support for Dual EC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test
376 and POST to handle Dual EC cases.
379 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
382 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
383 POST to handle HMAC cases.
386 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
387 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
390 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
391 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
392 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
395 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
396 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
397 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
398 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
399 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
400 requested amount of entropy.
403 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
404 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
407 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
408 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
409 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
413 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
414 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
415 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
418 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
419 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
420 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
421 will never use XTS mode.
424 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
425 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
426 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
427 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
428 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
429 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
432 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
433 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
434 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
435 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
438 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
439 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
440 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
443 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
446 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
449 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
450 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
453 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
454 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
457 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
458 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
461 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
462 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
463 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
464 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
465 and rename any affected symbols.
468 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
469 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
472 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
473 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
474 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
477 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
480 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
481 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
482 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
485 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
486 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
489 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
490 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
491 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
492 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
493 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
494 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
498 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
499 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
500 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
501 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
502 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
503 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
504 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
505 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
508 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
509 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
512 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
514 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
515 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
517 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
518 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
519 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
520 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
521 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
522 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
524 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
525 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
526 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
528 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
530 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
534 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
535 Add CMAC pkey methods.
538 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
539 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
540 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
543 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
544 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
545 multi-process servers.
548 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
549 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
550 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
551 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
552 RAND_METHOD structure.
555 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
556 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
557 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
558 whose return value is often ignored.
561 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
563 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
565 During certificate verfification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
566 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
567 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
568 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
569 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
570 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
572 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
576 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
578 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
579 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
583 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
585 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
587 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
588 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
591 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
592 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
593 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
594 client authentication enabled.
596 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
600 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
602 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
603 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
604 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
607 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
608 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
609 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
610 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
611 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
614 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
615 independently by Hanno Böck.
619 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
621 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
622 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
623 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
625 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
626 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
627 servers are not affected.
629 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
633 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
635 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
636 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
637 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
639 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
643 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
645 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
646 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
647 a double free of the ticket data.
651 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
652 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
653 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
656 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
658 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
660 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
661 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
662 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
664 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
667 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
669 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
671 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
672 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
673 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
674 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
675 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
676 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
677 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
678 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
680 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
684 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
686 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
687 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
688 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
689 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
690 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
691 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
692 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
693 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
696 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
700 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
702 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
703 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
704 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
705 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
706 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
707 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
711 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
713 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
714 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
715 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
716 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
717 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
718 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
719 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
721 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
725 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
727 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
728 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
729 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
731 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
732 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
733 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
738 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
740 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
741 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
742 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
744 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
745 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
746 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
748 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
752 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
754 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
755 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
756 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
758 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
759 (OpenSSL development team).
763 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
765 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
766 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
767 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
771 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
773 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
774 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
775 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
776 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
777 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
778 SSL_client_methodv23)
779 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
780 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
782 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
783 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
784 output may be predictable.
786 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
787 succeed on an unpatched platform:
789 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
793 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
795 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
796 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
797 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
798 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
799 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
800 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
802 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
807 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
809 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
810 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
812 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
816 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
819 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
821 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
822 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
823 So far those who have to target multiple plaforms would compromise
824 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
825 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
826 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
829 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
830 (other platforms pending).
831 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
833 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
834 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
837 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
838 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
839 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
842 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
843 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
844 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
845 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
848 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
849 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
851 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
852 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
853 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
854 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
855 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
857 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
860 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
861 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
862 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
863 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
865 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
867 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
869 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
870 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
871 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
874 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
877 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
878 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
879 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
882 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
883 this fixes a limiation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
886 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
887 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
890 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
891 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
892 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
893 algorithms and include tests cases.
896 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
898 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
900 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
901 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
904 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
905 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
906 summary of the connection parameters.
909 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
910 of connection parameters.
913 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
914 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
916 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
917 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
920 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
923 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
924 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
927 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
928 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
931 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
935 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
936 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
937 CRLs using the OCSP API.
940 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
943 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
944 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
947 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
948 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
949 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
953 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
954 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
957 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
961 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
965 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
966 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
967 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
968 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
971 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
972 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
975 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
976 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
977 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
981 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
982 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
983 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
987 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
990 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
991 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
992 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distint stores for certificate chain
993 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
994 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returing
995 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
996 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
998 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
999 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
1003 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
1004 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
1005 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
1008 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
1009 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
1010 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
1011 supported signature algorithms.
1014 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
1017 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
1018 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
1019 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
1020 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
1021 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
1022 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
1023 certificate and specify the whole chain.
1026 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
1027 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
1028 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
1029 to have similar checks in it.
1031 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
1032 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
1033 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
1034 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
1035 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
1038 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
1039 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
1040 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
1041 shared signature algorithms.
1044 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
1045 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
1049 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
1050 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
1051 it couldn't be removed.
1054 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
1055 verification. New verify options supporting checking in opensl utility.
1058 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
1059 functions. Add manual page.
1060 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
1062 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
1063 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
1067 *) Fix OCSP checking.
1068 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
1070 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
1071 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
1072 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
1073 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
1077 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
1078 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
1081 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
1082 platform support for Linux and Android.
1085 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
1088 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1089 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
1090 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
1091 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
1092 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
1095 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
1096 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
1097 the new parameter format automatically.
1100 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
1101 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
1104 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
1107 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
1108 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
1109 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
1110 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
1111 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
1114 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
1115 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
1116 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
1117 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
1118 to set list of supported curves.
1121 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
1122 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
1123 to print out received values.
1126 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
1127 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
1128 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
1131 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
1132 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
1135 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
1136 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
1139 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
1143 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
1145 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
1146 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
1147 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
1149 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
1151 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
1152 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
1154 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
1156 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
1157 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
1158 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
1159 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
1163 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
1164 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
1165 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
1166 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
1167 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
1168 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
1172 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
1173 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
1174 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
1175 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
1179 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
1182 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
1183 reporting this issue.
1187 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
1188 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
1189 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
1190 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
1191 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
1192 INRIA or reporting this issue.
1196 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
1197 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
1198 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
1199 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
1200 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
1201 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
1202 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
1207 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
1208 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
1210 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
1211 and can vary with the CTX.
1214 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
1216 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
1217 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
1218 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
1219 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
1220 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
1222 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
1224 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
1225 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
1227 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
1229 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
1230 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
1231 errors for some broken certificates.
1233 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
1235 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
1237 Reencode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
1238 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
1240 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
1241 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
1242 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
1243 (negative or with leading zeroes).
1245 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
1246 of the OpenSSL core team.
1251 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
1252 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
1253 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
1254 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
1255 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
1256 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
1257 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
1258 the OpenSSL core team.
1262 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
1263 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
1264 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
1265 sanity and breaks all known clients.
1266 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
1268 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
1269 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
1270 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
1273 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
1274 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
1275 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
1276 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
1277 announced in the initial ServerHello.
1279 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
1280 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
1281 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
1284 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
1286 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
1288 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
1289 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
1290 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
1291 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
1292 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
1293 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
1294 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
1296 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
1300 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
1302 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
1303 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
1304 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
1305 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
1306 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
1311 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
1313 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
1314 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
1315 configured to send them.
1317 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
1319 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
1320 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
1321 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
1323 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1325 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
1327 Reencode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
1328 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
1329 DigestInfo structures.
1331 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
1335 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
1337 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
1338 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
1339 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
1341 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
1342 Group for discovering this issue.
1346 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
1347 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
1348 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
1349 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
1350 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
1352 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
1353 researching this issue.
1357 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
1358 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
1359 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
1360 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
1362 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
1367 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
1368 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
1369 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
1373 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
1374 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
1375 Denial of Service attack.
1376 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
1380 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
1381 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
1382 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
1383 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
1388 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
1389 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
1390 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
1392 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
1397 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
1398 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
1399 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
1400 Denial of Service attack.
1402 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
1403 discovering and researching this issue.
1407 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
1408 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
1409 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
1410 output to the attacker.
1412 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
1414 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
1416 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
1417 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
1418 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
1421 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
1423 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
1424 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
1425 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
1427 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
1428 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
1429 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
1431 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
1432 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
1435 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
1437 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
1439 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
1440 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
1441 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
1442 code on a vulnerable client or server.
1444 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
1445 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
1447 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
1448 are subject to a denial of service attack.
1450 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
1451 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
1452 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
1454 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1456 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1458 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1459 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
1460 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1462 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1463 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1465 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
1467 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1468 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1471 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1472 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1473 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1474 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1476 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1477 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1478 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1479 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1481 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1482 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1483 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1485 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
1487 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
1488 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
1489 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
1490 is at least 512 bytes long.
1492 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
1494 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
1496 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
1497 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
1498 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
1501 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
1502 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
1503 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
1506 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
1507 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
1508 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
1509 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
1510 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
1511 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
1512 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
1514 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
1516 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
1517 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
1518 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
1520 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
1522 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
1524 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
1525 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
1526 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
1528 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
1529 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
1530 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
1531 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
1533 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
1535 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
1536 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
1537 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
1538 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
1539 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
1543 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
1544 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
1547 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1548 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1550 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
1551 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
1552 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
1553 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
1554 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
1556 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
1559 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
1563 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
1565 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
1566 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
1568 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
1569 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
1573 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
1574 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
1577 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
1581 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
1583 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
1584 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
1585 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
1586 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disablng
1587 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
1588 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
1589 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
1590 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
1591 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
1592 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
1595 *) In order to ensure interoperabilty SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
1596 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
1597 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
1598 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
1599 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
1600 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
1604 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
1606 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
1607 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
1608 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
1610 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
1611 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
1613 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
1615 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
1618 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
1619 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
1621 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
1622 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
1623 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
1624 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
1625 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
1626 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
1627 Most broken servers should now work.
1628 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
1629 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
1632 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
1635 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
1637 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
1638 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
1641 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
1642 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
1643 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
1644 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
1645 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
1648 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
1649 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
1650 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
1651 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
1652 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
1655 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
1656 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
1658 *) Add support for SCTP.
1659 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
1661 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
1662 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
1664 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
1666 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
1667 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
1668 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
1669 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
1670 - s390x: z196 support;
1671 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
1675 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
1676 (removal of unnecessary code)
1677 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
1679 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
1682 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
1685 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
1686 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
1687 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
1689 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1691 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
1692 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
1693 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
1694 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
1695 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
1697 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
1698 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
1699 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
1701 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
1702 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
1703 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
1705 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
1706 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
1708 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
1710 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
1711 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
1712 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
1715 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
1716 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
1720 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
1721 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
1722 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
1725 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
1726 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
1727 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
1728 the appropriate parameters.
1731 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
1732 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
1733 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
1734 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
1735 against a number of sample certificates.
1738 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
1739 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
1741 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
1742 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
1744 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
1745 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
1749 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
1753 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
1754 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
1755 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
1756 password based CMS).
1759 *) Session-handling fixes:
1760 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
1761 but also support Session Tickets.
1762 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
1763 presented a ticket with an expired session.
1764 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
1765 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
1766 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
1767 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
1769 *) Fix PSK session representation.
1772 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
1774 This work was sponsored by Intel.
1777 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
1778 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
1779 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
1780 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
1781 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
1784 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
1785 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
1788 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
1789 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
1790 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
1793 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
1794 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
1795 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
1796 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
1799 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
1800 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
1801 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
1804 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
1805 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
1807 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
1810 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
1811 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
1814 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
1817 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
1818 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
1821 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
1822 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
1825 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
1828 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
1829 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
1830 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
1833 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
1836 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
1839 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
1840 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
1843 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
1844 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
1845 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
1848 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
1851 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
1855 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
1856 FIPS modules versions.
1859 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
1860 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
1861 until after the certificate request message is received.
1864 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
1865 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
1866 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
1867 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
1870 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
1871 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
1872 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
1873 support yet and no support for client certificates.
1876 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
1877 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
1878 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
1879 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
1880 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
1881 and version checking.
1884 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
1885 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
1886 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
1887 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
1891 [Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
1893 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
1896 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
1897 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
1898 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
1900 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
1901 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
1902 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
1905 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
1906 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
1908 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
1909 a few changes are required:
1911 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
1912 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
1913 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
1914 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
1915 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
1918 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
1920 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
1921 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
1922 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
1923 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
1924 old behaviour can be reenabled in the CMS code by setting the
1925 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
1926 an MMA defence is not necessary.
1927 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
1928 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
1931 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
1932 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
1933 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
1936 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
1938 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
1939 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
1940 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
1941 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
1944 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
1946 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
1947 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
1948 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
1949 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
1950 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
1951 paper describing this attack can be found at:
1952 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
1953 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
1954 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
1955 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
1956 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
1957 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
1958 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
1960 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
1962 [Adam Langley (Google)]
1964 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
1965 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
1966 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
1967 [Adam Langley (Google)]
1969 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
1970 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
1972 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
1973 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
1974 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
1975 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
1977 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
1978 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
1980 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
1981 [Adam Langley (Google)]
1983 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
1984 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
1986 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
1987 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
1988 [Adam Langley (Google)]
1990 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
1991 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
1992 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
1994 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
1995 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
1996 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
1997 the last update always remained unused).
1998 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2000 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
2001 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
2003 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
2005 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
2006 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
2007 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
2009 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
2010 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
2011 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2013 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
2016 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
2017 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
2018 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
2021 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
2022 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
2024 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
2026 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
2028 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
2030 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
2031 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2033 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
2034 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
2038 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
2040 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
2041 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
2042 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
2045 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
2046 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
2047 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
2050 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
2052 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
2053 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
2054 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
2057 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
2061 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
2063 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
2065 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
2067 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
2069 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
2070 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
2071 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
2074 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
2077 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
2078 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
2079 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
2081 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
2082 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
2083 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
2086 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
2087 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
2090 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
2091 some responders need this.
2094 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
2096 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
2098 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
2099 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
2100 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
2103 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
2106 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
2107 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
2108 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
2109 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
2110 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
2111 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
2112 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
2113 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
2116 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
2117 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
2118 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
2119 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
2121 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
2122 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
2124 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
2128 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
2129 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
2130 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
2131 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
2132 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
2133 attempting to work them out.
2136 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
2137 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
2138 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
2139 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
2142 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
2143 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
2144 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
2145 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
2146 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
2149 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
2150 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
2157 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
2159 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
2163 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
2164 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
2166 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
2167 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
2169 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
2170 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
2171 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
2172 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
2173 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
2176 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
2177 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
2178 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
2181 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
2182 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
2185 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
2186 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
2188 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
2189 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
2192 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
2195 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
2196 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
2197 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
2201 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
2202 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
2203 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
2204 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
2205 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
2206 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
2209 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
2210 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
2212 This work was sponsored by Google.
2215 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
2216 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
2217 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
2218 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
2219 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
2220 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications wont
2221 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
2224 This work was sponsored by Google.
2227 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
2229 This work was sponsored by Google.
2232 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
2233 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
2234 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
2235 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
2237 This work was sponsored by Google.
2240 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
2241 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
2242 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
2243 CRL functionality in future.
2245 This work was sponsored by Google.
2248 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
2250 This work was sponsored by Google.
2253 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
2254 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
2256 This work was sponsored by Google.
2259 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
2260 and URI types are currently supported.
2262 This work was sponsored by Google.
2265 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
2266 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
2267 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
2268 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
2269 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
2270 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
2271 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
2272 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
2274 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
2275 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
2276 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
2278 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
2279 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
2280 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
2281 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
2283 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
2284 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
2285 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
2286 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
2287 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
2288 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
2289 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
2290 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
2292 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
2294 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
2295 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
2296 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
2298 This work was sponsored by Google.
2301 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
2304 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
2305 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
2306 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
2309 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
2310 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
2313 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
2314 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
2317 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
2318 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
2319 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
2320 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
2321 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
2322 content types and variants.
2325 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
2328 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
2329 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
2330 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
2331 files from the associated perl scripts.
2334 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
2335 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
2336 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
2338 *) s390x assembler pack.
2341 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
2345 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
2346 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
2347 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
2348 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
2349 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
2350 to use. For example, specify an option
2352 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
2354 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
2355 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
2356 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
2357 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
2358 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
2359 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
2361 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
2362 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
2363 an interal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
2364 return non-zero for success.
2366 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
2369 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
2370 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
2374 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
2377 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
2378 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
2379 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
2380 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
2381 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
2382 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
2383 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
2384 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
2385 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
2387 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
2388 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
2389 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
2390 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
2391 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
2392 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
2394 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
2395 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
2396 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
2397 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
2398 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
2399 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
2403 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
2406 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
2408 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
2409 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
2410 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
2413 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
2414 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
2417 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
2418 protection in servers so again support should be possible
2419 with no application modification.
2421 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
2422 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
2424 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
2425 or server extensions to be examined.
2427 This work was sponsored by Google.
2430 *) Final changes to avoid use of pointer pointer casts in OpenSSL.
2431 OpenSSL should now compile cleanly on gcc 4.2
2432 [Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>, Steve Henson]
2434 *) Update SSL library to use new EVP_PKEY MAC API. Include generic MAC
2435 support including streaming MAC support: this is required for GOST
2436 ciphersuite support.
2437 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>, Steve Henson]
2439 *) Add option -stream to use PKCS#7 streaming in smime utility. New
2440 function i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream() and PEM_write_PKCS7_bio_stream()
2441 to output in BER and PEM format.
2444 *) Experimental support for use of HMAC via EVP_PKEY interface. This
2445 allows HMAC to be handled via the EVP_DigestSign*() interface. The
2446 EVP_PKEY "key" in this case is the HMAC key, potentially allowing
2447 ENGINE support for HMAC keys which are unextractable. New -mac and
2448 -macopt options to dgst utility.
2451 *) New option -sigopt to dgst utility. Update dgst to use
2452 EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}*. These two changes make it possible to use
2453 alternative signing paramaters such as X9.31 or PSS in the dgst
2457 *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
2458 the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
2459 ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
2460 removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
2461 the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
2462 that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
2463 in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
2464 than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
2467 This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
2468 the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
2469 order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
2470 most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
2472 Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
2473 funcionality) such that between otherwise identical
2474 cihpersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
2478 *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
2479 arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
2480 to process the rule string. Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
2481 (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
2482 remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
2483 This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
2484 in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
2485 that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
2486 [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
2488 *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
2489 processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
2490 "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
2491 "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
2492 (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
2493 away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
2494 change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
2495 affect applications.) This give us more bits for each of these
2496 categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
2497 AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
2498 and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
2501 Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
2502 0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
2503 out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
2505 With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
2506 so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
2510 *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
2511 Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
2512 larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
2515 *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
2516 it yet and it is largely untested.
2519 *) Add support for the ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
2522 *) Initial incomplete changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL
2523 some compilers (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use. Safestack is
2524 reimplemented. Update ASN1 to avoid use of legacy functions.
2527 *) Win32/64 targets are linked with Winsock2.
2530 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
2531 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
2532 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
2533 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
2536 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
2537 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
2538 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
2539 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
2540 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
2543 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
2544 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
2547 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
2548 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
2549 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
2550 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
2553 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
2554 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
2555 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
2556 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
2559 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
2560 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
2563 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
2564 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
2565 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
2566 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
2569 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
2570 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
2571 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
2574 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
2578 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
2579 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
2582 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
2583 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
2584 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
2588 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
2589 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
2590 to free up any added signature OIDs.
2593 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
2594 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
2595 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
2596 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
2599 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
2600 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
2601 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
2602 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
2603 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
2604 the array representation useful in a more general context.
2607 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
2608 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
2609 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
2610 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
2611 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
2613 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
2614 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
2615 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
2616 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
2617 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
2620 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
2621 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
2622 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
2623 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case:
2625 kECDHr - ECDH cert, signed with RSA
2626 kECDHe - ECDH cert, signed with ECDSA
2627 kECDH - ECDH cert (signed with either RSA or ECDSA)
2628 kEECDH - ephemeral ECDH
2629 ECDH - ECDH cert or ephemeral ECDH
2635 AECDH - anonymous ECDH
2636 EECDH - non-anonymous ephemeral ECDH (equivalent to "kEECDH:-AECDH")
2640 *) Add additional S/MIME capabilities for AES and GOST ciphers if supported.
2641 Use correct micalg parameters depending on digest(s) in signed message.
2644 *) Add engine support for EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. Add functions to process
2645 an ENGINE asn1 method. Support ENGINE lookups in the ASN1 code.
2648 *) Initial engine support for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. New functions to permit
2649 an engine to register a method. Add ENGINE lookups for methods and
2650 functional reference processing.
2653 *) New functions EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify)*. These are enchance versions of
2654 EVP_{Sign,Verify}* which allow an application to customise the signature
2658 *) New -resign option to smime utility. This adds one or more signers
2659 to an existing PKCS#7 signedData structure. Also -md option to use an
2660 alternative message digest algorithm for signing.
2663 *) Tidy up PKCS#7 routines and add new functions to make it easier to
2664 create PKCS7 structures containing multiple signers. Update smime
2665 application to support multiple signers.
2668 *) New -macalg option to pkcs12 utility to allow setting of an alternative
2672 *) Initial support for PKCS#5 v2.0 PRFs other than default SHA1 HMAC.
2673 Reorganize PBE internals to lookup from a static table using NIDs,
2674 add support for HMAC PBE OID translation. Add a EVP_CIPHER ctrl:
2675 EVP_CTRL_PBE_PRF_NID this allows a cipher to specify an alternative
2676 PRF which will be automatically used with PBES2.
2679 *) Replace the algorithm specific calls to generate keys in "req" with the
2683 *) Update PKCS#7 enveloped data routines to use new API. This is now
2684 supported by any public key method supporting the encrypt operation. A
2685 ctrl is added to allow the public key algorithm to examine or modify
2686 the PKCS#7 RecipientInfo structure if it needs to: for RSA this is
2690 *) Add a ctrl to asn1 method to allow a public key algorithm to express
2691 a default digest type to use. In most cases this will be SHA1 but some
2692 algorithms (such as GOST) need to specify an alternative digest. The
2693 return value indicates how strong the preference is 1 means optional and
2694 2 is mandatory (that is it is the only supported type). Modify
2695 ASN1_item_sign() to accept a NULL digest argument to indicate it should
2696 use the default md. Update openssl utilities to use the default digest
2697 type for signing if it is not explicitly indicated.
2700 *) Use OID cross reference table in ASN1_sign() and ASN1_verify(). New
2701 EVP_MD flag EVP_MD_FLAG_PKEY_METHOD_SIGNATURE. This uses the relevant
2702 signing method from the key type. This effectively removes the link
2703 between digests and public key types.
2706 *) Add an OID cross reference table and utility functions. Its purpose is to
2707 translate between signature OIDs such as SHA1WithrsaEncryption and SHA1,
2708 rsaEncryption. This will allow some of the algorithm specific hackery
2709 needed to use the correct OID to be removed.
2712 *) Remove algorithm specific dependencies when setting PKCS7_SIGNER_INFO
2713 structures for PKCS7_sign(). They are now set up by the relevant public
2717 *) Add provisional EC pkey method with support for ECDSA and ECDH.
2720 *) Add support for key derivation (agreement) in the API, DH method and
2724 *) Add DSA pkey method and DH pkey methods, extend DH ASN1 method to support
2725 public and private key formats. As a side effect these add additional
2726 command line functionality not previously available: DSA signatures can be
2727 generated and verified using pkeyutl and DH key support and generation in
2732 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
2734 *) New make target "install_html_docs" installs HTML renditions of the
2736 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
2738 *) New utility "genpkey" this is analogous to "genrsa" etc except it can
2739 generate keys for any algorithm. Extend and update EVP_PKEY_METHOD to
2740 support key and parameter generation and add initial key generation
2741 functionality for RSA.
2744 *) Add functions for main EVP_PKEY_method operations. The undocumented
2745 functions EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt} have been renamed to
2746 EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt}_old.
2749 *) Initial definitions for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. This will be a high level public
2750 key API, doesn't do much yet.
2753 *) New function EVP_PKEY_asn1_get0_info() to retrieve information about
2754 public key algorithms. New option to openssl utility:
2755 "list-public-key-algorithms" to print out info.
2758 *) Implement the Supported Elliptic Curves Extension for
2759 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
2762 *) Don't free up OIDs in OBJ_cleanup() if they are in use by EVP_MD or
2763 EVP_CIPHER structures to avoid later problems in EVP_cleanup().
2766 *) New utilities pkey and pkeyparam. These are similar to algorithm specific
2767 utilities such as rsa, dsa, dsaparam etc except they process any key
2771 *) Transfer public key printing routines to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. New
2772 functions EVP_PKEY_print_public(), EVP_PKEY_print_private(),
2773 EVP_PKEY_print_param() to print public key data from an EVP_PKEY
2777 *) Initial support for pluggable public key ASN1.
2778 De-spaghettify the public key ASN1 handling. Move public and private
2779 key ASN1 handling to a new EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD structure. Relocate
2780 algorithm specific handling to a single module within the relevant
2781 algorithm directory. Add functions to allow (near) opaque processing
2782 of public and private key structures.
2785 *) Implement the Supported Point Formats Extension for
2786 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
2789 *) Add initial support for RFC 4279 PSK TLS ciphersuites. Add members
2790 for the psk identity [hint] and the psk callback functions to the
2791 SSL_SESSION, SSL and SSL_CTX structure.
2794 PSK-RC4-SHA, PSK-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA, PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA,
2798 SSL_CTX_use_psk_identity_hint
2799 SSL_get_psk_identity_hint
2800 SSL_get_psk_identity
2801 SSL_use_psk_identity_hint
2803 [Mika Kousa and Pasi Eronen of Nokia Corporation]
2805 *) Add RFC 3161 compliant time stamp request creation, response generation
2806 and response verification functionality.
2807 [Zoltán Glózik <zglozik@opentsa.org>, The OpenTSA Project]
2809 *) Add initial support for TLS extensions, specifically for the server_name
2810 extension so far. The SSL_SESSION, SSL_CTX, and SSL data structures now
2811 have new members for a host name. The SSL data structure has an
2812 additional member SSL_CTX *initial_ctx so that new sessions can be
2813 stored in that context to allow for session resumption, even after the
2814 SSL has been switched to a new SSL_CTX in reaction to a client's
2815 server_name extension.
2817 New functions (subject to change):
2819 SSL_get_servername()
2820 SSL_get_servername_type()
2823 New CTRL codes and macros (subject to change):
2825 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_CB
2826 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback()
2827 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_ARG
2828 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg()
2829 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME - SSL_set_tlsext_host_name()
2831 openssl s_client has a new '-servername ...' option.
2833 openssl s_server has new options '-servername_host ...', '-cert2 ...',
2834 '-key2 ...', '-servername_fatal' (subject to change). This allows
2835 testing the HostName extension for a specific single host name ('-cert'
2836 and '-key' remain fallbacks for handshakes without HostName
2837 negotiation). If the unrecognized_name alert has to be sent, this by
2838 default is a warning; it becomes fatal with the '-servername_fatal'
2841 [Peter Sylvester, Remy Allais, Christophe Renou]
2843 *) Whirlpool hash implementation is added.
2846 *) BIGNUM code on 64-bit SPARCv9 targets is switched from bn(64,64) to
2847 bn(64,32). Because of instruction set limitations it doesn't have
2848 any negative impact on performance. This was done mostly in order
2849 to make it possible to share assembler modules, such as bn_mul_mont
2850 implementations, between 32- and 64-bit builds without hassle.
2853 *) Move code previously exiled into file crypto/ec/ec2_smpt.c
2854 to ec2_smpl.c, and no longer require the OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP
2858 *) New candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation, bn_mul_mont,
2859 dedicated Montgomery multiplication procedure, is introduced.
2860 BN_MONT_CTX is modified to allow bn_mul_mont to reach for higher
2861 "64-bit" performance on certain 32-bit targets.
2864 *) New option SSL_OP_NO_COMP to disable use of compression selectively
2865 in SSL structures. New SSL ctrl to set maximum send fragment size.
2866 Save memory by seeting the I/O buffer sizes dynamically instead of
2867 using the maximum available value.
2870 *) New option -V for 'openssl ciphers'. This prints the ciphersuite code
2871 in addition to the text details.
2874 *) Very, very preliminary EXPERIMENTAL support for printing of general
2875 ASN1 structures. This currently produces rather ugly output and doesn't
2876 handle several customised structures at all.
2879 *) Integrated support for PVK file format and some related formats such
2880 as MS PUBLICKEYBLOB and PRIVATEKEYBLOB. Command line switches to support
2881 these in the 'rsa' and 'dsa' utilities.
2884 *) Support for PKCS#1 RSAPublicKey format on rsa utility command line.
2887 *) Remove the ancient ASN1_METHOD code. This was only ever used in one
2888 place for the (very old) "NETSCAPE" format certificates which are now
2889 handled using new ASN1 code equivalents.
2892 *) Let the TLSv1_method() etc. functions return a 'const' SSL_METHOD
2893 pointer and make the SSL_METHOD parameter in SSL_CTX_new,
2894 SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version and SSL_set_ssl_method 'const'.
2897 *) Modify CRL distribution points extension code to print out previously
2898 unsupported fields. Enhance extension setting code to allow setting of
2902 *) Add print and set support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension.
2905 *) Change 'Configure' script to enable Camellia by default.
2908 Changes between 0.9.8m and 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]
2910 *) When rejecting SSL/TLS records due to an incorrect version number, never
2911 update s->server with a new major version number. As of
2912 - OpenSSL 0.9.8m if 'short' is a 16-bit type,
2913 - OpenSSL 0.9.8f if 'short' is longer than 16 bits,
2914 the previous behavior could result in a read attempt at NULL when
2915 receiving specific incorrect SSL/TLS records once record payload
2916 protection is active. (CVE-2010-0740)
2917 [Bodo Moeller, Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org>]
2919 *) Fix for CVE-2010-0433 where some kerberos enabled versions of OpenSSL
2920 could be crashed if the relevant tables were not present (e.g. chrooted).
2921 [Tomas Hoger <thoger@redhat.com>]
2923 Changes between 0.9.8l and 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]
2925 *) Always check bn_wexpend() return values for failure. (CVE-2009-3245)
2926 [Martin Olsson, Neel Mehta]
2928 *) Fix X509_STORE locking: Every 'objs' access requires a lock (to
2929 accommodate for stack sorting, always a write lock!).
2932 *) On some versions of WIN32 Heap32Next is very slow. This can cause
2933 excessive delays in the RAND_poll(): over a minute. As a workaround
2934 include a time check in the inner Heap32Next loop too.
2937 *) The code that handled flushing of data in SSL/TLS originally used the
2938 BIO_CTRL_INFO ctrl to see if any data was pending first. This caused
2939 the problem outlined in PR#1949. The fix suggested there however can
2940 trigger problems with buggy BIO_CTRL_WPENDING (e.g. some versions
2941 of Apache). So instead simplify the code to flush unconditionally.
2942 This should be fine since flushing with no data to flush is a no op.
2945 *) Handle TLS versions 2.0 and later properly and correctly use the
2946 highest version of TLS/SSL supported. Although TLS >= 2.0 is some way
2947 off ancient servers have a habit of sticking around for a while...
2950 *) Modify compression code so it frees up structures without using the
2951 ex_data callbacks. This works around a problem where some applications
2952 call CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data() before application exit (e.g. when
2953 restarting) then use compression (e.g. SSL with compression) later.
2954 This results in significant per-connection memory leaks and
2955 has caused some security issues including CVE-2008-1678 and
2959 *) Constify crypto/cast (i.e., <openssl/cast.h>): a CAST_KEY doesn't
2960 change when encrypting or decrypting.
2963 *) Add option SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT which will allow clients to
2964 connect and renegotiate with servers which do not support RI.
2965 Until RI is more widely deployed this option is enabled by default.
2968 *) Add "missing" ssl ctrls to clear options and mode.
2971 *) If client attempts to renegotiate and doesn't support RI respond with
2972 a no_renegotiation alert as required by RFC5746. Some renegotiating
2973 TLS clients will continue a connection gracefully when they receive
2974 the alert. Unfortunately OpenSSL mishandled this alert and would hang
2975 waiting for a server hello which it will never receive. Now we treat a
2976 received no_renegotiation alert as a fatal error. This is because
2977 applications requesting a renegotiation might well expect it to succeed
2978 and would have no code in place to handle the server denying it so the
2979 only safe thing to do is to terminate the connection.
2982 *) Add ctrl macro SSL_get_secure_renegotiation_support() which returns 1 if
2983 peer supports secure renegotiation and 0 otherwise. Print out peer
2984 renegotiation support in s_client/s_server.
2987 *) Replace the highly broken and deprecated SPKAC certification method with
2988 the updated NID creation version. This should correctly handle UTF8.
2991 *) Implement RFC5746. Re-enable renegotiation but require the extension
2992 as needed. Unfortunately, SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION
2993 turns out to be a bad idea. It has been replaced by
2994 SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION which can be set with
2995 SSL_CTX_set_options(). This is really not recommended unless you
2996 know what you are doing.
2997 [Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>, Ben Laurie, Steve Henson]
2999 *) Fixes to stateless session resumption handling. Use initial_ctx when
3000 issuing and attempting to decrypt tickets in case it has changed during
3001 servername handling. Use a non-zero length session ID when attempting
3002 stateless session resumption: this makes it possible to determine if
3003 a resumption has occurred immediately after receiving server hello
3004 (several places in OpenSSL subtly assume this) instead of later in
3008 *) The functions ENGINE_ctrl(), OPENSSL_isservice(),
3009 CMS_get1_RecipientRequest() and RAND_bytes() can return <=0 on error
3010 fixes for a few places where the return code is not checked
3012 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3014 *) Add --strict-warnings option to Configure script to include devteam
3015 warnings in other configurations.
3018 *) Add support for --libdir option and LIBDIR variable in makefiles. This
3019 makes it possible to install openssl libraries in locations which
3020 have names other than "lib", for example "/usr/lib64" which some
3022 [Steve Henson, based on patch from Jeremy Utley]
3024 *) Don't allow the use of leading 0x80 in OIDs. This is a violation of
3025 X690 8.9.12 and can produce some misleading textual output of OIDs.
3026 [Steve Henson, reported by Dan Kaminsky]
3028 *) Delete MD2 from algorithm tables. This follows the recommendation in
3029 several standards that it is not used in new applications due to
3030 several cryptographic weaknesses. For binary compatibility reasons
3031 the MD2 API is still compiled in by default.
3034 *) Add compression id to {d2i,i2d}_SSL_SESSION so it is correctly saved
3038 *) Rename uni2asc and asc2uni functions to OPENSSL_uni2asc and
3039 OPENSSL_asc2uni conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name
3041 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3043 *) Fix the server certificate chain building code to use X509_verify_cert(),
3044 it used to have an ad-hoc builder which was unable to cope with anything
3045 other than a simple chain.
3046 [David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Steve Henson]
3048 *) Don't check self signed certificate signatures in X509_verify_cert()
3049 by default (a flag can override this): it just wastes time without
3050 adding any security. As a useful side effect self signed root CAs
3051 with non-FIPS digests are now usable in FIPS mode.
3054 *) In dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message() the check if the current message
3055 is already buffered was missing. For every new message was memory
3056 allocated, allowing an attacker to perform an denial of service attack
3057 with sending out of seq handshake messages until there is no memory
3058 left. Additionally every future messege was buffered, even if the
3059 sequence number made no sense and would be part of another handshake.
3060 So only messages with sequence numbers less than 10 in advance will be
3061 buffered. (CVE-2009-1378)
3062 [Robin Seggelmann, discovered by Daniel Mentz]
3064 *) Records are buffered if they arrive with a future epoch to be
3065 processed after finishing the corresponding handshake. There is
3066 currently no limitation to this buffer allowing an attacker to perform
3067 a DOS attack with sending records with future epochs until there is no
3068 memory left. This patch adds the pqueue_size() function to determine
3069 the size of a buffer and limits the record buffer to 100 entries.
3071 [Robin Seggelmann, discovered by Daniel Mentz]
3073 *) Keep a copy of frag->msg_header.frag_len so it can be used after the
3074 parent structure is freed. (CVE-2009-1379)
3077 *) Handle non-blocking I/O properly in SSL_shutdown() call.
3078 [Darryl Miles <darryl-mailinglists@netbauds.net>]
3081 [Ilya O. <vrghost@gmail.com>]
3083 Changes between 0.9.8k and 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]
3085 *) Disable renegotiation completely - this fixes a severe security
3086 problem (CVE-2009-3555) at the cost of breaking all
3087 renegotiation. Renegotiation can be re-enabled by setting
3088 SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION in s3->flags at
3089 run-time. This is really not recommended unless you know what
3093 Changes between 0.9.8j and 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]
3095 *) Don't set val to NULL when freeing up structures, it is freed up by
3096 underlying code. If sizeof(void *) > sizeof(long) this can result in
3097 zeroing past the valid field. (CVE-2009-0789)
3098 [Paolo Ganci <Paolo.Ganci@AdNovum.CH>]
3100 *) Fix bug where return value of CMS_SignerInfo_verify_content() was not
3101 checked correctly. This would allow some invalid signed attributes to
3102 appear to verify correctly. (CVE-2009-0591)
3103 [Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com>]
3105 *) Reject UniversalString and BMPString types with invalid lengths. This
3106 prevents a crash in ASN1_STRING_print_ex() which assumes the strings have
3107 a legal length. (CVE-2009-0590)
3110 *) Set S/MIME signing as the default purpose rather than setting it
3111 unconditionally. This allows applications to override it at the store
3115 *) Permit restricted recursion of ASN1 strings. This is needed in practice
3116 to handle some structures.
3119 *) Improve efficiency of mem_gets: don't search whole buffer each time
3121 [Jeremy Shapiro <jnshapir@us.ibm.com>]
3123 *) New -hex option for openssl rand.
3126 *) Print out UTF8String and NumericString when parsing ASN1.
3129 *) Support NumericString type for name components.
3132 *) Allow CC in the environment to override the automatically chosen
3133 compiler. Note that nothing is done to ensure flags work with the
3137 Changes between 0.9.8i and 0.9.8j [07 Jan 2009]
3139 *) Properly check EVP_VerifyFinal() and similar return values
3141 [Ben Laurie, Bodo Moeller, Google Security Team]
3143 *) Enable TLS extensions by default.
3146 *) Allow the CHIL engine to be loaded, whether the application is
3147 multithreaded or not. (This does not release the developer from the
3148 obligation to set up the dynamic locking callbacks.)
3149 [Sander Temme <sander@temme.net>]
3151 *) Use correct exit code if there is an error in dgst command.
3152 [Steve Henson; problem pointed out by Roland Dirlewanger]
3154 *) Tweak Configure so that you need to say "experimental-jpake" to enable
3155 JPAKE, and need to use -DOPENSSL_EXPERIMENTAL_JPAKE in applications.
3158 *) Add experimental JPAKE support, including demo authentication in
3159 s_client and s_server.
3162 *) Set the comparison function in v3_addr_canonize().
3163 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3165 *) Add support for XMPP STARTTLS in s_client.
3166 [Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>]
3168 *) Change the server-side SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG behavior
3169 to ensure that even with this option, only ciphersuites in the
3170 server's preference list will be accepted. (Note that the option
3171 applies only when resuming a session, so the earlier behavior was
3172 just about the algorithm choice for symmetric cryptography.)
3175 Changes between 0.9.8h and 0.9.8i [15 Sep 2008]
3177 *) Fix NULL pointer dereference if a DTLS server received
3178 ChangeCipherSpec as first record (CVE-2009-1386).
3181 *) Fix a state transition in s3_srvr.c and d1_srvr.c
3182 (was using SSL3_ST_CW_CLNT_HELLO_B, should be ..._ST_SW_SRVR_...).
3185 *) The fix in 0.9.8c that supposedly got rid of unsafe
3186 double-checked locking was incomplete for RSA blinding,
3187 addressing just one layer of what turns out to have been
3188 doubly unsafe triple-checked locking.
3190 So now fix this for real by retiring the MONT_HELPER macro
3191 in crypto/rsa/rsa_eay.c.
3193 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Marius Schilder]
3195 *) Various precautionary measures:
3197 - Avoid size_t integer overflow in HASH_UPDATE (md32_common.h).
3199 - Avoid a buffer overflow in d2i_SSL_SESSION() (ssl_asn1.c).
3200 (NB: This would require knowledge of the secret session ticket key
3201 to exploit, in which case you'd be SOL either way.)
3203 - Change bn_nist.c so that it will properly handle input BIGNUMs
3204 outside the expected range.
3206 - Enforce the 'num' check in BN_div() (bn_div.c) for non-BN_DEBUG
3209 [Neel Mehta, Bodo Moeller]
3211 *) Allow engines to be "soft loaded" - i.e. optionally don't die if
3212 the load fails. Useful for distros.
3213 [Ben Laurie and the FreeBSD team]
3215 *) Add support for Local Machine Keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
3218 *) Fix BN_GF2m_mod_arr() top-bit cleanup code.
3221 *) Expand ENGINE to support engine supplied SSL client certificate functions.
3223 This work was sponsored by Logica.
3226 *) Add CryptoAPI ENGINE to support use of RSA and DSA keys held in Windows
3227 keystores. Support for SSL/TLS client authentication too.
3228 Not compiled unless enable-capieng specified to Configure.
3230 This work was sponsored by Logica.
3233 *) Fix bug in X509_ATTRIBUTE creation: dont set attribute using
3234 ASN1_TYPE_set1 if MBSTRING flag set. This bug would crash certain
3235 attribute creation routines such as certifcate requests and PKCS#12
3239 Changes between 0.9.8g and 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]
3241 *) Fix flaw if 'Server Key exchange message' is omitted from a TLS
3242 handshake which could lead to a cilent crash as found using the
3243 Codenomicon TLS test suite (CVE-2008-1672)
3244 [Steve Henson, Mark Cox]
3246 *) Fix double free in TLS server name extensions which could lead to
3247 a remote crash found by Codenomicon TLS test suite (CVE-2008-0891)
3250 *) Clear error queue in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file()
3252 Clear the error queue to ensure that error entries left from
3253 older function calls do not interfere with the correct operation.
3254 [Lutz Jaenicke, Erik de Castro Lopo]
3256 *) Remove root CA certificates of commercial CAs:
3258 The OpenSSL project does not recommend any specific CA and does not
3259 have any policy with respect to including or excluding any CA.
3260 Therefore it does not make any sense to ship an arbitrary selection
3261 of root CA certificates with the OpenSSL software.
3264 *) RSA OAEP patches to fix two separate invalid memory reads.
3265 The first one involves inputs when 'lzero' is greater than
3266 'SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH' (it would read about SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH bytes
3267 before the beginning of from). The second one involves inputs where
3268 the 'db' section contains nothing but zeroes (there is a one-byte
3269 invalid read after the end of 'db').
3270 [Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com>]
3272 *) Partial backport from 0.9.9-dev:
3274 Introduce bn_mul_mont (dedicated Montgomery multiplication
3275 procedure) as a candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation.
3276 While 0.9.9-dev uses assembler for various architectures, only
3277 x86_64 is available by default here in the 0.9.8 branch, and
3278 32-bit x86 is available through a compile-time setting.
3280 To try the 32-bit x86 assembler implementation, use Configure
3281 option "enable-montasm" (which exists only for this backport).
3283 As "enable-montasm" for 32-bit x86 disclaims code stability
3284 anyway, in this constellation we activate additional code
3285 backported from 0.9.9-dev for further performance improvements,
3286 namely BN_from_montgomery_word. (To enable this otherwise,
3287 e.g. x86_64, try "-DMONT_FROM_WORD___NON_DEFAULT_0_9_8_BUILD".)
3289 [Andy Polyakov (backport partially by Bodo Moeller)]
3291 *) Add TLS session ticket callback. This allows an application to set
3292 TLS ticket cipher and HMAC keys rather than relying on hardcoded fixed
3293 values. This is useful for key rollover for example where several key
3294 sets may exist with different names.
3297 *) Reverse ENGINE-internal logic for caching default ENGINE handles.
3298 This was broken until now in 0.9.8 releases, such that the only way
3299 a registered ENGINE could be used (assuming it initialises
3300 successfully on the host) was to explicitly set it as the default
3301 for the relevant algorithms. This is in contradiction with 0.9.7
3302 behaviour and the documentation. With this fix, when an ENGINE is
3303 registered into a given algorithm's table of implementations, the
3304 'uptodate' flag is reset so that auto-discovery will be used next
3305 time a new context for that algorithm attempts to select an
3307 [Ian Lister (tweaked by Geoff Thorpe)]
3309 *) Backport of CMS code to OpenSSL 0.9.8. This differs from the 0.9.9
3310 implemention in the following ways:
3312 Lack of EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD means algorithm parameters have to be
3315 Lack of BER streaming support means one pass streaming processing is
3316 only supported if data is detached: setting the streaming flag is
3317 ignored for embedded content.
3319 CMS support is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled
3320 with the enable-cms configuration option.
3323 *) Update the GMP engine glue to do direct copies between BIGNUM and
3324 mpz_t when openssl and GMP use the same limb size. Otherwise the
3325 existing "conversion via a text string export" trick is still used.
3326 [Paul Sheer <paulsheer@gmail.com>]
3328 *) Zlib compression BIO. This is a filter BIO which compressed and
3329 uncompresses any data passed through it.
3332 *) Add AES_wrap_key() and AES_unwrap_key() functions to implement
3333 RFC3394 compatible AES key wrapping.
3336 *) Add utility functions to handle ASN1 structures. ASN1_STRING_set0():
3337 sets string data without copying. X509_ALGOR_set0() and
3338 X509_ALGOR_get0(): set and retrieve X509_ALGOR (AlgorithmIdentifier)
3339 data. Attribute function X509at_get0_data_by_OBJ(): retrieves data
3340 from an X509_ATTRIBUTE structure optionally checking it occurs only
3341 once. ASN1_TYPE_set1(): set and ASN1_TYPE structure copying supplied
3345 *) Fix BN flag handling in RSA_eay_mod_exp() and BN_MONT_CTX_set()
3346 to get the expected BN_FLG_CONSTTIME behavior.
3347 [Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3351 - fixed wrong usage of ioctlsocket() when build for LIBC BSD sockets
3352 - fixed do_tests.pl to run the test suite with CLIB builds too (CLIB_OPT)
3353 - added some more tests to do_tests.pl
3354 - fixed RunningProcess usage so that it works with newer LIBC NDKs too
3355 - removed usage of BN_LLONG for CLIB builds to avoid runtime dependency
3356 - added new Configure targets netware-clib-bsdsock, netware-clib-gcc,
3357 netware-clib-bsdsock-gcc, netware-libc-bsdsock-gcc
3358 - various changes to netware.pl to enable gcc-cross builds on Win32
3360 - changed crypto/bio/b_sock.c to work with macro functions (CLIB BSD)
3361 - various changes to fix missing prototype warnings
3362 - fixed x86nasm.pl to create correct asm files for NASM COFF output
3363 - added AES, WHIRLPOOL and CPUID assembler code to build files
3364 - added missing AES assembler make rules to mk1mf.pl
3365 - fixed order of includes in apps/ocsp.c so that e_os.h settings apply
3366 [Guenter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>]
3368 *) Implement certificate status request TLS extension defined in RFC3546.
3369 A client can set the appropriate parameters and receive the encoded
3370 OCSP response via a callback. A server can query the supplied parameters
3371 and set the encoded OCSP response in the callback. Add simplified examples
3372 to s_client and s_server.
3375 Changes between 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]
3377 *) Fix various bugs:
3378 + Binary incompatibility of ssl_ctx_st structure
3379 + DTLS interoperation with non-compliant servers
3380 + Don't call get_session_cb() without proposed session
3381 + Fix ia64 assembler code
3382 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3384 Changes between 0.9.8e and 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]
3386 *) DTLS Handshake overhaul. There were longstanding issues with
3387 OpenSSL DTLS implementation, which were making it impossible for
3388 RFC 4347 compliant client to communicate with OpenSSL server.
3389 Unfortunately just fixing these incompatibilities would "cut off"
3390 pre-0.9.8f clients. To allow for hassle free upgrade post-0.9.8e
3391 server keeps tolerating non RFC compliant syntax. The opposite is
3392 not true, 0.9.8f client can not communicate with earlier server.
3393 This update even addresses CVE-2007-4995.
3396 *) Changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL: some compilers
3397 (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use.
3398 [Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>, Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>,
3401 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
3402 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
3403 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
3406 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
3407 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
3410 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
3411 protection in servers so again support should be possible
3412 with no application modification.
3414 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
3415 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
3417 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
3418 or server extensions to be examined.
3420 This work was sponsored by Google.
3423 *) Add initial support for TLS extensions, specifically for the server_name
3424 extension so far. The SSL_SESSION, SSL_CTX, and SSL data structures now
3425 have new members for a host name. The SSL data structure has an
3426 additional member SSL_CTX *initial_ctx so that new sessions can be
3427 stored in that context to allow for session resumption, even after the
3428 SSL has been switched to a new SSL_CTX in reaction to a client's
3429 server_name extension.
3431 New functions (subject to change):
3433 SSL_get_servername()
3434 SSL_get_servername_type()
3437 New CTRL codes and macros (subject to change):
3439 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_CB
3440 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback()
3441 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_ARG
3442 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg()
3443 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME - SSL_set_tlsext_host_name()
3445 openssl s_client has a new '-servername ...' option.
3447 openssl s_server has new options '-servername_host ...', '-cert2 ...',
3448 '-key2 ...', '-servername_fatal' (subject to change). This allows
3449 testing the HostName extension for a specific single host name ('-cert'
3450 and '-key' remain fallbacks for handshakes without HostName
3451 negotiation). If the unrecognized_name alert has to be sent, this by
3452 default is a warning; it becomes fatal with the '-servername_fatal'
3455 [Peter Sylvester, Remy Allais, Christophe Renou, Steve Henson]
3457 *) Add AES and SSE2 assembly language support to VC++ build.
3460 *) Mitigate attack on final subtraction in Montgomery reduction.
3463 *) Fix crypto/ec/ec_mult.c to work properly with scalars of value 0
3464 (which previously caused an internal error).
3467 *) Squeeze another 10% out of IGE mode when in != out.
3470 *) AES IGE mode speedup.
3471 [Dean Gaudet (Google)]
3473 *) Add the Korean symmetric 128-bit cipher SEED (see
3474 http://www.kisa.or.kr/kisa/seed/jsp/seed_eng.jsp) and
3475 add SEED ciphersuites from RFC 4162:
3477 TLS_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "SEED-SHA"
3478 TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "DHE-DSS-SEED-SHA"
3479 TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "DHE-RSA-SEED-SHA"
3480 TLS_DH_anon_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "ADH-SEED-SHA"
3482 To minimize changes between patchlevels in the OpenSSL 0.9.8
3483 series, SEED remains excluded from compilation unless OpenSSL
3484 is configured with 'enable-seed'.
3485 [KISA, Bodo Moeller]
3487 *) Mitigate branch prediction attacks, which can be practical if a
3488 single processor is shared, allowing a spy process to extract
3489 information. For detailed background information, see
3490 http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/039 (O. Aciicmez, S. Gueron,
3491 J.-P. Seifert, "New Branch Prediction Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
3492 and Necessary Software Countermeasures"). The core of the change
3493 are new versions BN_div_no_branch() and
3494 BN_mod_inverse_no_branch() of BN_div() and BN_mod_inverse(),
3495 respectively, which are slower, but avoid the security-relevant
3496 conditional branches. These are automatically called by BN_div()
3497 and BN_mod_inverse() if the flag BN_FLG_CONSTTIME is set for one
3498 of the input BIGNUMs. Also, BN_is_bit_set() has been changed to
3499 remove a conditional branch.
3501 BN_FLG_CONSTTIME is the new name for the previous
3502 BN_FLG_EXP_CONSTTIME flag, since it now affects more than just
3503 modular exponentiation. (Since OpenSSL 0.9.7h, setting this flag
3504 in the exponent causes BN_mod_exp_mont() to use the alternative
3505 implementation in BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime().) The old name
3506 remains as a deprecated alias.
3508 Similary, RSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME is replaced by a more general
3509 RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME flag since the RSA implementation now uses
3510 constant-time implementations for more than just exponentiation.
3511 Here too the old name is kept as a deprecated alias.
3513 BN_BLINDING_new() will now use BN_dup() for the modulus so that
3514 the BN_BLINDING structure gets an independent copy of the
3515 modulus. This means that the previous "BIGNUM *m" argument to
3516 BN_BLINDING_new() and to BN_BLINDING_create_param() now
3517 essentially becomes "const BIGNUM *m", although we can't actually
3518 change this in the header file before 0.9.9. It allows
3519 RSA_setup_blinding() to use BN_with_flags() on the modulus to
3520 enable BN_FLG_CONSTTIME.
3522 [Matthew D Wood (Intel Corp)]
3524 *) In the SSL/TLS server implementation, be strict about session ID
3525 context matching (which matters if an application uses a single
3526 external cache for different purposes). Previously,
3527 out-of-context reuse was forbidden only if SSL_VERIFY_PEER was
3528 set. This did ensure strict client verification, but meant that,
3529 with applications using a single external cache for quite
3530 different requirements, clients could circumvent ciphersuite
3531 restrictions for a given session ID context by starting a session
3532 in a different context.
3535 *) Include "!eNULL" in SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST to make sure that
3536 a ciphersuite string such as "DEFAULT:RSA" cannot enable
3537 authentication-only ciphersuites.
3540 *) Update the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() fix CVE-2006-3738 which was
3541 not complete and could lead to a possible single byte overflow
3542 (CVE-2007-5135) [Ben Laurie]
3544 Changes between 0.9.8d and 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]
3546 *) Since AES128 and AES256 (and similarly Camellia128 and
3547 Camellia256) share a single mask bit in the logic of
3548 ssl/ssl_ciph.c, the code for masking out disabled ciphers needs a
3549 kludge to work properly if AES128 is available and AES256 isn't
3550 (or if Camellia128 is available and Camellia256 isn't).
3553 *) Fix the BIT STRING encoding generated by crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c
3554 (within i2d_ECPrivateKey, i2d_ECPKParameters, i2d_ECParameters):
3555 When a point or a seed is encoded in a BIT STRING, we need to
3556 prevent the removal of trailing zero bits to get the proper DER
3557 encoding. (By default, crypto/asn1/a_bitstr.c assumes the case
3558 of a NamedBitList, for which trailing 0 bits need to be removed.)
3561 *) Have SSL/TLS server implementation tolerate "mismatched" record
3562 protocol version while receiving ClientHello even if the
3563 ClientHello is fragmented. (The server can't insist on the
3564 particular protocol version it has chosen before the ServerHello
3565 message has informed the client about his choice.)
3568 *) Add RFC 3779 support.
3569 [Rob Austein for ARIN, Ben Laurie]
3571 *) Load error codes if they are not already present instead of using a
3572 static variable. This allows them to be cleanly unloaded and reloaded.
3573 Improve header file function name parsing.
3576 *) extend SMTP and IMAP protocol emulation in s_client to use EHLO
3577 or CAPABILITY handshake as required by RFCs.
3580 Changes between 0.9.8c and 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]
3582 *) Introduce limits to prevent malicious keys being able to
3583 cause a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2940)
3584 [Steve Henson, Bodo Moeller]
3586 *) Fix ASN.1 parsing of certain invalid structures that can result
3587 in a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2937) [Steve Henson]
3589 *) Fix buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function.
3590 (CVE-2006-3738) [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
3592 *) Fix SSL client code which could crash if connecting to a
3593 malicious SSLv2 server. (CVE-2006-4343)
3594 [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
3596 *) Since 0.9.8b, ciphersuite strings naming explicit ciphersuites
3597 match only those. Before that, "AES256-SHA" would be interpreted
3598 as a pattern and match "AES128-SHA" too (since AES128-SHA got
3599 the same strength classification in 0.9.7h) as we currently only
3600 have a single AES bit in the ciphersuite description bitmap.
3601 That change, however, also applied to ciphersuite strings such as
3602 "RC4-MD5" that intentionally matched multiple ciphersuites --
3603 namely, SSL 2.0 ciphersuites in addition to the more common ones
3604 from SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0.
3606 So we change the selection algorithm again: Naming an explicit
3607 ciphersuite selects this one ciphersuite, and any other similar
3608 ciphersuite (same bitmap) from *other* protocol versions.
3609 Thus, "RC4-MD5" again will properly select both the SSL 2.0
3610 ciphersuite and the SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 ciphersuite.
3612 Since SSL 2.0 does not have any ciphersuites for which the
3613 128/256 bit distinction would be relevant, this works for now.
3614 The proper fix will be to use different bits for AES128 and
3615 AES256, which would have avoided the problems from the beginning;
3616 however, bits are scarce, so we can only do this in a new release
3617 (not just a patchlevel) when we can change the SSL_CIPHER
3618 definition to split the single 'unsigned long mask' bitmap into
3619 multiple values to extend the available space.
3623 Changes between 0.9.8b and 0.9.8c [05 Sep 2006]
3625 *) Avoid PKCS #1 v1.5 signature attack discovered by Daniel Bleichenbacher
3626 (CVE-2006-4339) [Ben Laurie and Google Security Team]
3628 *) Add AES IGE and biIGE modes.
3631 *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
3632 possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
3633 undesirable limitations.
3634 [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]
3636 *) Disable "ECCdraft" ciphersuites more thoroughly. Now special
3637 treatment in ssl/ssl_ciph.s makes sure that these ciphersuites
3638 cannot be implicitly activated as part of, e.g., the "AES" alias.
3639 However, please upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.9[-dev] for
3640 non-experimental use of the ECC ciphersuites to get TLS extension
3641 support, which is required for curve and point format negotiation
3642 to avoid potential handshake problems.
3645 *) Disable rogue ciphersuites: