5 This is a high-level summary of the most important changes.
6 For a full list of changes, see the git commit log; for example,
7 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/ and pick the appropriate
10 Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
12 *) Change the default RSA, DSA and DH size to 2048 bit instead of 1024.
13 This changes the size when using the genpkey app when no size is given. It
14 fixes an omission in earlier changes that changed all RSA, DSA and DH
15 generation apps to use 2048 bits by default.
18 *) Added command 'openssl kdf' that uses the EVP_KDF API.
21 *) Added command 'openssl mac' that uses the EVP_MAC API.
24 *) Added OPENSSL_info() to get diverse built-in OpenSSL data, such
25 as default directories. Also added the command 'openssl info'
26 for scripting purposes.
29 *) The functions AES_ige_encrypt() and AES_bi_ige_encrypt() have been
30 deprecated. These undocumented functions were never integrated into the EVP
31 layer and implement the AES Infinite Garble Extension (IGE) mode and AES
32 Bi-directional IGE mode. These modes were never formally standardised and
33 usage of these functions is believed to be very small. In particular
34 AES_bi_ige_encrypt() has a known bug. It accepts 2 AES keys, but only one
35 is ever used. The security implications are believed to be minimal, but
36 this issue was never fixed for backwards compatibility reasons. New code
37 should not use these modes.
40 *) Add prediction resistance to the DRBG reseeding process.
43 *) Limit the number of blocks in a data unit for AES-XTS to 2^20 as
44 mandated by IEEE Std 1619-2018.
47 *) Added newline escaping functionality to a filename when using openssl dgst.
48 This output format is to replicate the output format found in the '*sum'
49 checksum programs. This aims to preserve backward compatibility.
50 [Matt Eaton, Richard Levitte, and Paul Dale]
52 *) Removed the heartbeat message in DTLS feature, as it has very
53 little usage and doesn't seem to fulfill a valuable purpose.
54 The configuration option is now deprecated.
57 *) Changed the output of 'openssl {digestname} < file' to display the
58 digest name in its output.
61 *) Added a new generic trace API which provides support for enabling
62 instrumentation through trace output. This feature is mainly intended
63 as an aid for developers and is disabled by default. To utilize it,
64 OpenSSL needs to be configured with the `enable-trace` option.
66 If the tracing API is enabled, the application can activate trace output
67 by registering BIOs as trace channels for a number of tracing and debugging
70 The 'openssl' application has been expanded to enable any of the types
71 available via environment variables defined by the user, and serves as
72 one possible example on how to use this functionality.
73 [Richard Levitte & Matthias St. Pierre]
75 *) Added build tests for C++. These are generated files that only do one
76 thing, to include one public OpenSSL head file each. This tests that
77 the public header files can be usefully included in a C++ application.
79 This test isn't enabled by default. It can be enabled with the option
80 'enable-buildtest-c++'.
83 *) Add Single Step KDF (EVP_KDF_SS) to EVP_KDF.
86 *) Add KMAC to EVP_MAC.
89 *) Added property based algorithm implementation selection framework to
93 *) Added SCA hardening for modular field inversion in EC_GROUP through
94 a new dedicated field_inv() pointer in EC_METHOD.
95 This also addresses a leakage affecting conversions from projective
96 to affine coordinates.
97 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
99 *) Added EVP_KDF, an EVP layer KDF API, to simplify adding KDF and PRF
100 implementations. This includes an EVP_PKEY to EVP_KDF bridge for
101 those algorithms that were already supported through the EVP_PKEY API
102 (scrypt, TLS1 PRF and HKDF). The low-level KDF functions for PBKDF2
103 and scrypt are now wrappers that call EVP_KDF.
106 *) Build devcrypto engine as a dynamic engine.
109 *) Add keyed BLAKE2 to EVP_MAC.
112 *) Fix a bug in the computation of the endpoint-pair shared secret used
113 by DTLS over SCTP. This breaks interoperability with older versions
114 of OpenSSL like OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.2. There is a runtime
115 switch SSL_MODE_DTLS_SCTP_LABEL_LENGTH_BUG (off by default) enabling
116 interoperability with such broken implementations. However, enabling
117 this switch breaks interoperability with correct implementations.
119 *) Fix a use after free bug in d2i_X509_PUBKEY when overwriting a
120 re-used X509_PUBKEY object if the second PUBKEY is malformed.
123 *) Move strictness check from EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() to EVP_PKEY_asn1_add0().
126 *) Change the license to the Apache License v2.0.
129 *) Change the possible version information given with OPENSSL_API_COMPAT.
130 It may be a pre-3.0.0 style numerical version number as it was defined
131 in 1.1.0, and it may also simply take the major version number.
133 Because of the version numbering of pre-3.0.0 releases, the values 0,
134 1 and 2 are equivalent to 0x00908000L (0.9.8), 0x10000000L (1.0.0) and
135 0x10100000L (1.1.0), respectively.
138 *) Switch to a new version scheme using three numbers MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.
140 o Major releases (indicated by incrementing the MAJOR release number)
141 may introduce incompatible API/ABI changes.
142 o Minor releases (indicated by incrementing the MINOR release number)
143 may introduce new features but retain API/ABI compatibility.
144 o Patch releases (indicated by incrementing the PATCH number)
145 are intended for bug fixes and other improvements of existing
146 features only (like improving performance or adding documentation)
147 and retain API/ABI compatibility.
150 *) Add support for RFC5297 SIV mode (siv128), including AES-SIV.
153 *) Remove the 'dist' target and add a tarball building script. The
154 'dist' target has fallen out of use, and it shouldn't be
155 necessary to configure just to create a source distribution.
158 *) Recreate the OS390-Unix config target. It no longer relies on a
159 special script like it did for OpenSSL pre-1.1.0.
162 *) Instead of having the source directories listed in Configure, add
163 a 'build.info' keyword SUBDIRS to indicate what sub-directories to
167 *) Add GMAC to EVP_MAC.
170 *) Ported the HMAC, CMAC and SipHash EVP_PKEY_METHODs to EVP_MAC.
173 *) Added EVP_MAC, an EVP layer MAC API, to simplify adding MAC
174 implementations. This includes a generic EVP_PKEY to EVP_MAC bridge,
175 to facilitate the continued use of MACs through raw private keys in
176 functionality such as EVP_DigestSign* and EVP_DigestVerify*.
179 *) Deprecate ECDH_KDF_X9_62() and mark its replacement as internal. Users
180 should use the EVP interface instead (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_ecdh_kdf_type).
183 *) Added EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_63 and ecdh_KDF_X9_63() as replacements for
184 the EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_62 KDF type and ECDH_KDF_X9_62(). The old names
185 are retained for backwards compatibility.
188 *) AES-XTS mode now enforces that its two keys are different to mitigate
189 the attacked described in "Efficient Instantiations of Tweakable
190 Blockciphers and Refinements to Modes OCB and PMAC" by Phillip Rogaway.
191 Details of this attack can be obtained from:
192 http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Erogaway/papers/offsets.pdf
195 *) Rename the object files, i.e. give them other names than in previous
196 versions. Their names now include the name of the final product, as
197 well as its type mnemonic (bin, lib, shlib).
200 *) Added new option for 'openssl list', '-objects', which will display the
201 list of built in objects, i.e. OIDs with names.
204 *) Added support for Linux Kernel TLS data-path. The Linux Kernel data-path
205 improves application performance by removing data copies and providing
206 applications with zero-copy system calls such as sendfile and splice.
209 Changes between 1.1.1a and 1.1.1b [xx XXX xxxx]
211 *) Change the info callback signals for the start and end of a post-handshake
212 message exchange in TLSv1.3. In 1.1.1/1.1.1a we used SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_START
213 and SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_DONE. Experience has shown that many applications get
214 confused by this and assume that a TLSv1.2 renegotiation has started. This
215 can break KeyUpdate handling. Instead we no longer signal the start and end
216 of a post handshake message exchange (although the messages themselves are
217 still signalled). This could break some applications that were expecting
218 the old signals. However without this KeyUpdate is not usable for many
222 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
224 *) Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation
226 The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
227 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
228 algorithm to recover the private key.
230 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 16th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
234 *) Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation
236 The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
237 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
238 algorithm to recover the private key.
240 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 25th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
244 *) Fixed the issue that RAND_add()/RAND_seed() silently discards random input
245 if its length exceeds 4096 bytes. The limit has been raised to a buffer size
246 of two gigabytes and the error handling improved.
248 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Dr. Falko Strenzke. It has been
249 categorized as a normal bug, not a security issue, because the DRBG reseeds
250 automatically and is fully functional even without additional randomness
251 provided by the application.
253 Changes between 1.1.0i and 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
255 *) Add a new ClientHello callback. Provides a callback interface that gives
256 the application the ability to adjust the nascent SSL object at the
257 earliest stage of ClientHello processing, immediately after extensions have
258 been collected but before they have been processed. In particular, this
259 callback can adjust the supported TLS versions in response to the contents
263 *) Add SM2 base algorithm support.
266 *) s390x assembly pack: add (improved) hardware-support for the following
267 cryptographic primitives: sha3, shake, aes-gcm, aes-ccm, aes-ctr, aes-ofb,
268 aes-cfb/cfb8, aes-ecb.
271 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
272 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
273 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
276 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
277 step for prime curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
278 differential addition-and-doubling in homogeneous projective coordinates
279 from Izu-Takagi "A fast parallel elliptic curve multiplication resistant
280 against side channel attacks" and Brier-Joye "Weierstrass Elliptic Curves
281 and Side-Channel Attacks" Eq. (8) for y-coordinate recovery, modified
282 to work in projective coordinates.
283 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
285 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
286 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
287 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
288 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
290 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
292 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
295 *) The 'tsget' script is renamed to 'tsget.pl', to avoid confusion when
296 moving between systems, and to avoid confusion when a Windows build is
297 done with mingw vs with MSVC. For POSIX installs, there's still a
298 symlink or copy named 'tsget' to avoid that confusion as well.
301 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
302 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
305 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
306 step for binary curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
307 differential addition-and-doubling in mixed Lopez-Dahab projective
308 coordinates, modified to independently blind the operands.
309 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
311 *) Add a scaffold to optionally enhance the Montgomery ladder implementation
312 for `ec_scalar_mul_ladder` (formerly `ec_mul_consttime`) allowing
313 EC_METHODs to implement their own specialized "ladder step", to take
314 advantage of more favorable coordinate systems or more efficient
315 differential addition-and-doubling algorithms.
316 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
318 *) Modified the random device based seed sources to keep the relevant
319 file descriptors open rather than reopening them on each access.
320 This allows such sources to operate in a chroot() jail without
321 the associated device nodes being available. This behaviour can be
322 controlled using RAND_keep_random_devices_open().
325 *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
326 performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
327 security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
331 *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
332 handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
333 different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
334 mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
335 doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
336 multi-version installation is managed.
339 *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
340 EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
341 mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
342 When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
343 EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
346 *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
347 coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
348 chosen point SCA attacks.
349 [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
351 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
352 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
355 *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
356 length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
357 a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
360 *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
361 I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
362 can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
363 Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
364 TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
365 around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
366 It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
367 SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
368 SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
371 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
372 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
375 *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
376 pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
379 *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
380 binary and prime elliptic curves.
383 *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
384 constant time fixed point multiplication.
387 *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
388 defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
389 when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
390 in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
391 ECDH derive operations).
392 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida García,
395 *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
398 *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
399 randomness from the system.
400 [Matthias St. Pierre]
402 *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
405 *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
406 loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
409 *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
412 *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
413 [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
415 *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
418 *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
419 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
420 SSL_set_ciphersuites()
423 *) Memory allocation failures consistenly add an error to the error
427 *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
428 in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
431 *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
434 *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
435 for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
436 [Matthias St. Pierre]
438 *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
439 for the license change).
442 *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
443 SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
446 *) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
447 configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
448 below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
449 In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
450 would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
451 configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
452 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
455 *) On POSIX (BSD, Linux, ...) systems the ocsp(1) command running
456 in responder mode now supports the new "-multi" option, which
457 spawns the specified number of child processes to handle OCSP
458 requests. The "-timeout" option now also limits the OCSP
459 responder's patience to wait to receive the full client request
460 on a newly accepted connection. Child processes are respawned
461 as needed, and the CA index file is automatically reloaded
462 when changed. This makes it possible to run the "ocsp" responder
463 as a long-running service, making the OpenSSL CA somewhat more
464 feature-complete. In this mode, most diagnostic messages logged
465 after entering the event loop are logged via syslog(3) rather than
469 *) Added support for X448 and Ed448. Heavily based on original work by
473 *) Extend OSSL_STORE with capabilities to search and to narrow the set of
474 objects loaded. This adds the functions OSSL_STORE_expect() and
475 OSSL_STORE_find() as well as needed tools to construct searches and
476 get the search data out of them.
479 *) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
480 version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
481 that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
482 https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
485 *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
487 The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
488 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially
489 a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0
490 object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator
491 using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself
492 automatically using trusted system entropy sources.
494 Some of its new features are:
495 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
496 o The default RAND method makes use of a DRBG.
497 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
498 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
499 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
500 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
502 [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
504 *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
505 so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script
506 to display all sorts of configuration data.
509 *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure.
512 *) Added SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 algorithm support.
515 *) The last traces of Netware support, first removed in 1.1.0, have
519 *) Get rid of Makefile.shared, and in the process, make the processing
520 of certain files (rc.obj, or the .def/.map/.opt files produced from
521 the ordinal files) more visible and hopefully easier to trace and
522 debug (or make silent).
525 *) Make it possible to have environment variable assignments as
526 arguments to config / Configure.
529 *) Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support.
532 *) Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
533 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
534 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
535 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
537 *) Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
538 as documented in RFC6066.
539 Based on a patch from Tomasz Moń
540 [Filipe Raimundo da Silva]
542 *) Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
543 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
544 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
545 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
547 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
548 original author does not agree with the license change.
551 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
554 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
555 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
558 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
559 without clearing the errors.
562 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
563 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
564 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
570 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
571 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
572 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
575 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
576 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
577 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
578 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
581 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
582 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
583 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
584 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
585 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
586 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
587 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
590 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
591 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
592 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
593 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
596 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
597 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
598 error code calls like this:
600 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
602 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
603 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
605 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
607 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
610 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
611 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
612 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
613 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
616 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
617 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
618 than just the call where this user data is passed.
621 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
623 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
625 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
626 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
627 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
628 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
629 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
630 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
631 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
635 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
636 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
637 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
641 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
642 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
643 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
645 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
649 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
650 platform rather than 'mingw'.
653 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
654 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
655 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
656 certificates and CRLs.
659 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
660 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
663 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
664 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
667 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
668 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
669 which is the minimum version we support.
672 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
673 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
674 are no longer allowed.
677 *) Add support for ARIA
680 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
681 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
682 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
686 *) Add support for SipHash
689 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
690 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
691 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
692 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
695 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
696 using the algorithm defined in
697 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
700 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
701 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
703 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
706 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
707 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
711 Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
713 *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
715 During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
716 malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
717 cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
718 key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
719 could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
721 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
725 *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
727 The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
728 a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
729 mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
730 recover the private key.
732 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
733 Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
737 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
738 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
739 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
742 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
743 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
746 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
747 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
748 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
749 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
751 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
753 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
756 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
757 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
760 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
761 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
764 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
765 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
766 are no longer allowed.
769 *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
771 Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
772 through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
773 signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
774 line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
775 at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
776 some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
777 and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
778 could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
779 OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
780 signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
781 OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
782 and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
783 the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
786 Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
788 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
790 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
791 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
792 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
793 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
794 so this is considered safe.
796 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
801 *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
803 Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
804 effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
805 byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
806 authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
807 security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
808 HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
810 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
815 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
816 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
817 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
818 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
821 *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
823 OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
824 (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
825 changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
826 SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
827 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
829 Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
830 using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
831 accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
834 *) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
838 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
840 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
841 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
842 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
843 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
844 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
845 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
846 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
847 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
848 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
849 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
851 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
852 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
854 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
855 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
859 Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
861 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
863 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
864 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
865 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
866 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
867 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
868 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
869 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
870 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
871 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
872 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
873 key that is shared between multiple clients.
875 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
876 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
878 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
882 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
884 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
885 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
886 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
888 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
892 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
894 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
895 platform rather than 'mingw'.
898 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
899 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
900 which is the minimum version we support.
903 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
905 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
907 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
908 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
909 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
910 and servers are affected.
912 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
916 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
918 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
920 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
921 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
922 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
924 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
928 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
930 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
931 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
932 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
935 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
939 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
941 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
942 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
943 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
944 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
945 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
946 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
947 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
948 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
949 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
950 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
951 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
952 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
953 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
955 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
959 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
961 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
963 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
964 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
965 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
967 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
971 *) CMS Null dereference
973 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
974 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
975 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
976 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
977 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
980 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
984 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
986 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
987 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
988 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
989 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
990 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
991 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
992 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
993 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
994 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
995 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
996 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
997 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
998 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
999 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
1001 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
1002 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
1003 providing reproducible case.
1007 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
1008 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
1011 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
1013 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
1015 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
1016 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
1017 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
1018 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
1019 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
1020 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
1022 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
1024 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
1028 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
1030 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
1032 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
1033 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
1034 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
1035 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
1036 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
1037 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
1038 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
1040 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
1044 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
1046 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
1047 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
1048 Denial Of Service attack.
1050 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
1054 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
1055 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
1057 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
1058 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
1059 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
1060 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
1061 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
1062 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
1063 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
1064 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
1065 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
1066 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
1067 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
1068 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
1069 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
1070 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
1071 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
1073 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
1074 that the connection fails
1076 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
1077 very little free memory
1079 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
1080 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
1081 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
1082 memory to service the multiple requests.
1084 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
1085 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
1086 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
1087 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
1088 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
1090 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
1091 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
1094 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
1095 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
1096 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
1097 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
1098 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
1099 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
1100 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
1103 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
1105 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
1106 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
1107 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
1108 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
1109 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
1113 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
1114 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
1115 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
1118 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
1119 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
1120 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
1121 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
1124 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
1125 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
1129 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
1130 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
1131 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
1132 no-ops and deprecated.
1135 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
1136 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
1138 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
1140 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
1141 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
1142 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
1145 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
1146 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
1147 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
1148 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
1149 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
1150 and the validity of object reference counter.
1151 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
1153 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
1154 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
1155 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
1156 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
1159 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
1162 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
1163 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
1164 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
1165 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
1167 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
1171 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
1172 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
1175 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
1178 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
1181 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
1182 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
1183 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
1184 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
1185 name and is used as is.
1188 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
1189 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
1190 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
1193 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
1194 the "no-shared" Configure option.
1197 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
1198 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
1202 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
1203 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
1204 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
1205 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
1206 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
1207 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
1208 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
1209 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
1210 COMP_zlib_cleanup().
1213 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
1214 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
1215 enabled with '--debug' builds.
1216 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
1218 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
1219 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1220 these have been added.
1223 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
1224 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
1225 functions for managing these have been added.
1228 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
1229 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1230 these have been added.
1233 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
1234 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
1238 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
1241 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
1244 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
1245 it is always safe to #include a header now.
1248 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
1251 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
1254 *) Add support for HKDF.
1255 [Alessandro Ghedini]
1257 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
1260 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
1261 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
1262 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
1263 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
1264 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
1265 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
1266 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
1269 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
1270 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
1271 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
1274 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
1275 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
1276 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
1277 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
1278 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
1279 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
1280 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
1282 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1283 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1286 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
1289 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
1290 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
1291 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
1292 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
1293 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
1294 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
1298 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
1299 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
1302 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
1303 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
1304 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
1307 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
1308 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
1309 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
1310 implemented by other servers.
1313 *) Add X25519 support.
1314 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
1315 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
1316 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
1317 key generation and key derivation.
1319 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
1323 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
1324 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1325 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
1326 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
1327 seed, even if the seed is configured.
1329 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1330 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1331 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1332 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1333 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1334 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1335 that of a valid user.
1338 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
1339 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
1340 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
1341 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
1343 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
1344 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
1346 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
1347 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
1348 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
1349 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
1351 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
1352 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
1356 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
1357 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
1358 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
1359 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
1360 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
1361 of how OpenSSL was configured.
1363 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
1364 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
1365 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
1368 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
1371 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
1372 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
1373 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
1377 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
1378 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
1379 old #define's might need to be updated.
1380 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
1382 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
1385 *) New "unified" build system
1387 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
1388 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
1390 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
1391 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
1392 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
1394 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
1395 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
1396 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
1397 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
1400 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
1401 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
1402 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
1403 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
1404 libraries" in INSTALL.
1406 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
1409 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
1410 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
1411 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
1412 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
1415 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
1416 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
1418 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
1419 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
1420 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
1421 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
1422 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
1423 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
1424 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
1425 have been adapted accordingly.
1428 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
1432 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
1433 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
1434 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
1435 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
1438 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
1439 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
1440 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
1444 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
1445 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
1448 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
1449 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
1450 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
1452 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
1453 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
1454 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
1456 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
1457 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
1459 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
1460 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
1461 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
1462 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
1465 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
1466 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
1467 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
1468 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
1469 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
1473 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
1474 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
1475 straightforward and less interdependent.
1477 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
1478 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
1479 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
1481 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
1482 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
1483 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
1485 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
1486 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
1487 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
1488 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
1490 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
1491 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
1494 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
1495 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
1496 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
1497 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
1501 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
1503 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
1505 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
1506 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
1507 before trying to build now.*
1510 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
1514 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
1516 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
1517 the application's responsibility. The application provides
1518 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
1519 used to authenticate the peer.
1521 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
1522 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
1523 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
1524 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
1525 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
1528 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
1529 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
1530 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
1531 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
1532 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
1533 or the 1.1.0 releases.
1535 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
1536 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
1537 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
1538 support for the deprecated features from the library and
1539 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
1540 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
1541 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
1542 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
1545 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
1546 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
1547 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
1548 compile with later releases.
1550 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
1551 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
1552 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
1553 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
1554 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
1557 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
1558 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
1559 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
1560 MaxProtocol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
1561 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
1562 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
1563 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
1564 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
1567 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
1570 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
1571 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
1572 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
1575 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
1576 include the ec.h header file instead.
1579 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
1580 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
1581 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
1584 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
1585 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
1588 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
1589 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
1591 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
1592 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
1593 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
1596 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
1597 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
1598 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
1599 an already created structure.
1600 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
1601 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
1602 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
1603 for deprecated builds.
1606 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
1607 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
1608 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
1609 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
1610 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
1611 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
1612 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
1615 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
1616 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
1617 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
1618 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
1621 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
1622 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
1625 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
1626 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
1629 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
1630 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
1631 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
1632 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
1633 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
1634 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
1635 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
1639 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
1640 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
1641 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
1644 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
1647 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
1649 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
1651 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
1653 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
1654 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
1662 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
1663 set a mandatory field to NULL.
1665 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
1666 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
1667 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
1671 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
1674 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
1675 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
1676 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
1677 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
1680 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1681 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1682 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1683 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1686 *) Fix no-stdio build.
1687 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
1688 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
1690 *) New testing framework
1691 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
1692 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
1693 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
1694 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
1695 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
1696 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
1698 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
1700 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
1701 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
1705 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
1706 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
1707 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
1708 and others were changed. All are now documented.
1711 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1713 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1715 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
1716 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1718 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1719 original RSA_PSK patch.
1722 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1723 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1724 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1725 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1728 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1729 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1732 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1733 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1734 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1737 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1738 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1739 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1740 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1744 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1745 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1746 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1747 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1750 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1751 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1752 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1753 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1754 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1755 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1758 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1759 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1760 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1761 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1762 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1763 header file has been removed.
1766 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1767 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1770 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1771 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1772 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1774 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1778 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1781 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1785 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1788 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1789 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1790 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1793 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1794 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1795 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1796 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1799 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1800 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1801 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1802 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1803 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1804 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1807 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1808 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1809 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1810 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1813 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1814 compatible client hello.
1817 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1818 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1819 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1821 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1824 *) Removed old DES API.
1827 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1833 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1838 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1841 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1842 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1843 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1844 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1845 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1846 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1847 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1848 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1849 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1850 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1851 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1854 *) Cleaned up dead code
1855 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1858 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1859 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1860 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1863 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1864 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1865 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1868 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1869 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1870 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1872 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1873 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1874 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1876 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1878 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1880 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1881 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1882 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1884 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1885 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1887 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1888 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1891 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1892 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1893 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1894 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1896 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1897 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1898 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1899 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1901 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1902 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1903 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1905 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1906 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1909 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1911 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1912 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1914 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1915 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1917 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1920 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1924 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1925 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1926 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1927 algorithms and include tests cases.
1930 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1934 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1935 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1938 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1939 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1941 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1942 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1945 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1946 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1950 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1951 sign or verify all in one operation.
1954 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1955 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1956 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1959 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1962 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1965 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1966 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1967 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1968 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1969 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1972 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1976 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1977 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1978 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1981 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1984 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1985 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1988 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1989 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1992 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1993 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1994 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1997 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1998 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1999 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
2000 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
2001 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
2002 requested amount of entropy.
2005 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
2006 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
2009 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
2010 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
2011 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
2015 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
2016 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
2017 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
2020 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
2021 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
2022 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
2023 will never use XTS mode.
2026 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
2027 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
2028 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
2029 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
2030 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
2031 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
2034 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
2035 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
2036 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
2037 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
2040 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
2041 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
2042 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
2045 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
2048 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
2051 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
2052 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
2055 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
2056 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
2059 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
2060 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
2063 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
2064 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
2065 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
2066 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
2067 and rename any affected symbols.
2070 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
2071 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
2074 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
2075 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
2076 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
2079 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2082 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
2083 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
2084 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
2087 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
2088 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
2091 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
2092 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
2093 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
2094 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
2095 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
2096 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
2100 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
2101 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
2102 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
2103 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
2104 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
2105 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
2106 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
2107 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
2110 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
2111 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
2114 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
2116 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2117 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2119 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
2120 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
2121 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
2122 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
2123 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
2124 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
2126 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
2127 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
2128 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
2130 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
2132 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
2136 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
2137 Add CMAC pkey methods.
2140 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
2141 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
2142 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
2145 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
2146 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
2147 multi-process servers.
2150 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
2151 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
2152 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
2153 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
2154 RAND_METHOD structure.
2157 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
2158 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
2159 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
2160 whose return value is often ignored.
2163 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
2164 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
2165 validated when establishing a connection.
2166 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
2168 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
2170 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
2172 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
2173 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
2176 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
2177 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
2178 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
2179 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
2180 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
2183 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
2187 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
2189 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
2190 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
2191 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
2194 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
2195 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
2196 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
2197 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
2198 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
2199 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
2201 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2205 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
2207 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
2208 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
2209 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
2210 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
2211 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
2212 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
2213 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
2214 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
2215 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
2216 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
2217 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
2218 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
2219 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
2220 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
2221 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
2222 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
2224 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2228 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
2230 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
2231 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
2232 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
2234 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
2235 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
2236 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
2237 applications are not affected.
2239 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
2245 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
2246 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
2247 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
2249 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2253 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
2254 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
2257 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
2261 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
2262 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
2265 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
2267 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
2268 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
2269 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
2272 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
2273 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
2274 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
2275 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
2276 will need to explicitly call either of:
2278 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2280 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2282 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
2283 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
2284 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
2285 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
2286 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
2290 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
2292 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
2293 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
2294 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
2297 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
2302 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
2304 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
2306 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
2307 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
2308 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
2311 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
2312 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
2313 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
2314 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
2315 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
2316 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
2317 that of a valid user.
2321 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
2323 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
2324 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
2325 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
2326 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
2327 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
2328 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
2329 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
2330 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
2331 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
2332 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
2333 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
2335 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
2336 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
2337 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
2338 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
2339 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
2341 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
2345 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
2347 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
2348 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
2349 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
2351 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
2352 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
2353 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
2354 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
2355 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
2358 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
2359 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
2360 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
2361 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
2362 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
2363 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
2364 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
2365 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
2366 as command line arguments.
2368 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
2369 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
2370 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
2372 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
2376 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
2378 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
2379 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
2380 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
2381 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
2382 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
2384 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
2385 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
2386 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
2387 http://cachebleed.info.
2391 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
2392 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
2393 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
2394 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
2397 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
2398 *) DH small subgroups
2400 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
2401 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
2402 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
2403 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
2404 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
2405 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
2406 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
2407 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
2408 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
2409 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
2411 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
2412 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
2413 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
2414 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
2415 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
2417 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
2418 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
2419 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
2420 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
2422 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
2423 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
2425 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
2429 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
2431 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
2432 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
2433 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
2436 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
2437 and Sebastian Schinzel.
2441 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
2443 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
2445 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
2446 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
2447 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
2448 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
2449 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
2450 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
2451 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
2452 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
2453 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
2454 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
2455 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
2456 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
2458 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
2462 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
2464 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2465 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2466 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
2467 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
2468 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
2469 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
2470 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
2473 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
2477 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
2479 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
2480 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
2481 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
2482 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
2484 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
2489 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
2490 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
2491 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
2492 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
2495 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
2497 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
2499 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
2501 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
2503 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
2504 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
2505 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
2506 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
2507 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
2508 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
2510 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
2514 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
2516 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
2517 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
2521 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
2523 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
2525 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
2526 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
2529 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
2530 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
2531 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
2532 client authentication enabled.
2534 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
2538 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
2540 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
2541 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
2542 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
2545 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
2546 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
2547 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
2548 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
2549 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
2552 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
2553 independently by Hanno Böck.
2557 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
2559 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
2560 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
2561 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2563 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
2564 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
2565 servers are not affected.
2567 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2571 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
2573 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
2574 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
2575 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
2577 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
2581 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
2583 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
2584 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
2585 a double free of the ticket data.
2589 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
2590 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
2591 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
2594 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
2596 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
2598 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
2599 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
2600 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
2602 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
2605 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
2607 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
2609 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
2610 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
2611 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
2612 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
2613 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
2614 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
2615 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
2616 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
2618 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
2622 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
2624 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
2625 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
2626 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
2627 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
2628 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
2629 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
2630 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
2631 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
2634 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
2638 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
2640 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
2641 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
2642 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
2643 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2644 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2645 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2649 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
2651 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2652 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2653 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
2654 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
2655 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2656 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2657 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2659 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
2663 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
2665 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
2666 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
2667 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
2669 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
2670 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
2671 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
2676 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
2678 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
2679 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
2680 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2682 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
2683 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
2684 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
2686 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2690 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
2692 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
2693 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
2694 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
2696 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
2697 (OpenSSL development team).
2701 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
2703 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
2704 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
2705 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
2709 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
2711 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
2712 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
2713 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
2714 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
2715 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
2716 SSL_client_methodv23)
2717 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2718 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2720 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2721 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2722 output may be predictable.
2724 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2725 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2727 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2731 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2733 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2734 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2735 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2736 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2737 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2738 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2740 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2745 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2747 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2748 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2750 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2754 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2757 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2759 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2760 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2761 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2762 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2763 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2764 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2767 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2768 (other platforms pending).
2769 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2771 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2772 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2775 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2776 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2777 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2780 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2781 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2782 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2783 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2786 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2787 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2789 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2790 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2791 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2792 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2793 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2795 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2798 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2799 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2800 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2801 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2803 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2805 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2807 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2808 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2809 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2812 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2815 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2816 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2817 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2820 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2821 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2824 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2825 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2828 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2829 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2830 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2831 algorithms and include tests cases.
2834 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2836 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2838 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2839 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2842 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2843 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2844 summary of the connection parameters.
2847 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2848 of connection parameters.
2851 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2852 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2854 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2855 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2858 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2861 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2862 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2865 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2866 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2869 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2873 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2874 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2875 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2878 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2881 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2882 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2885 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2886 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2887 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2891 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2892 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2895 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2899 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2903 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2904 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2905 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2906 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2909 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2910 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2913 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2914 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2915 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2919 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2920 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2921 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2922 use the certificate.
2925 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2928 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2929 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2930 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2931 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2932 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2933 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2934 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2936 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2937 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2941 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2942 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2943 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2946 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2947 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2948 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2949 supported signature algorithms.
2952 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2955 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2956 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2957 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2958 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2959 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2960 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2961 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2964 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2965 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2966 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2967 to have similar checks in it.
2969 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2970 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2971 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2972 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2973 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2976 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2977 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2978 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2979 shared signature algorithms.
2982 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2983 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2987 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2988 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2989 it couldn't be removed.
2992 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2993 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2996 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2997 functions. Add manual page.
2998 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
3000 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
3001 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
3005 *) Fix OCSP checking.
3006 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
3008 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
3009 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
3010 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
3011 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
3015 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
3016 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
3019 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
3020 platform support for Linux and Android.
3023 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
3026 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
3027 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
3028 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
3029 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
3030 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
3033 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
3034 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
3035 the new parameter format automatically.
3038 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
3039 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
3042 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
3045 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
3046 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
3047 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
3048 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
3049 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
3052 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
3053 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
3054 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
3055 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
3056 to set list of supported curves.
3059 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
3060 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
3061 to print out received values.
3064 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
3065 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
3066 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
3069 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
3070 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
3073 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
3074 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
3077 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
3081 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
3083 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
3084 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
3085 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
3087 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
3089 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
3090 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
3092 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
3094 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
3095 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
3096 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
3097 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
3101 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
3102 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
3103 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
3104 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
3105 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
3106 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
3110 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
3111 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
3112 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
3113 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
3117 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
3120 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
3121 reporting this issue.
3125 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
3126 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
3127 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
3128 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
3129 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
3130 INRIA or reporting this issue.
3134 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
3135 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
3136 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
3137 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
3138 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
3139 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
3140 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
3145 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
3146 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
3148 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
3149 and can vary with the CTX.
3152 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
3154 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
3155 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
3156 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
3157 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
3158 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
3160 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
3162 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
3163 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
3165 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
3167 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
3168 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
3169 errors for some broken certificates.
3171 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
3173 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
3175 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
3176 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
3178 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
3179 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
3180 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
3181 (negative or with leading zeroes).
3183 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
3184 of the OpenSSL core team.
3189 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
3190 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
3191 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
3192 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
3193 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
3194 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
3195 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
3196 the OpenSSL core team.
3200 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
3201 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
3202 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
3203 sanity and breaks all known clients.
3204 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
3206 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
3207 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
3208 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
3211 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
3212 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
3213 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3214 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
3215 announced in the initial ServerHello.
3217 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
3218 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3219 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
3222 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
3224 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
3226 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
3227 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
3228 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
3229 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
3230 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
3231 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
3232 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
3234 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
3238 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
3240 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
3241 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
3242 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
3243 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
3244 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
3249 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
3251 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
3252 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
3253 configured to send them.
3255 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
3257 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
3258 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
3259 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
3261 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3263 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
3265 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
3266 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
3267 DigestInfo structures.
3269 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
3273 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
3275 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
3276 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
3277 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
3279 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
3280 Group for discovering this issue.
3284 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
3285 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
3286 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
3287 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
3288 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
3290 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
3291 researching this issue.
3295 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
3296 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
3297 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
3298 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
3300 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
3305 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
3306 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3307 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3311 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
3312 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
3313 Denial of Service attack.
3314 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3318 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
3319 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
3320 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3321 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
3326 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
3327 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
3328 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
3330 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
3335 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
3336 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
3337 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
3338 Denial of Service attack.
3340 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
3341 discovering and researching this issue.
3345 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
3346 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
3347 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
3348 output to the attacker.
3350 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
3352 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
3354 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
3355 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
3356 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
3359 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
3361 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
3362 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
3363 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
3365 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
3366 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
3367 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
3369 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
3370 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
3373 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
3375 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
3377 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
3378 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
3379 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
3380 code on a vulnerable client or server.
3382 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
3383 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
3385 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
3386 are subject to a denial of service attack.
3388 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
3389 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
3390 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
3392 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
3394 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3396 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
3397 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
3398 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3400 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
3401 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3403 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
3405 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
3406 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
3409 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
3410 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
3411 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
3412 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3414 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
3415 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
3416 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
3417 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
3419 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
3420 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
3421 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
3423 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
3425 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
3426 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
3427 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
3428 is at least 512 bytes long.
3430 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
3432 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
3434 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
3435 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
3436 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
3439 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
3440 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
3441 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
3444 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
3445 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
3446 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
3447 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
3448 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
3449 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
3450 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
3452 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
3454 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
3455 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
3456 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3458 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
3460 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
3462 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
3463 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
3464 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
3466 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3467 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3468 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
3469 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
3471 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3473 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
3474 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
3475 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
3476 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
3477 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
3481 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
3482 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
3485 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
3486 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3488 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
3489 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
3490 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
3491 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
3492 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
3494 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
3497 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
3501 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
3503 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
3504 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
3506 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
3507 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
3511 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
3512 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
3515 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
3519 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
3521 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
3522 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
3523 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
3524 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disabling
3525 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
3526 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
3527 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
3528 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
3529 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
3530 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
3533 *) In order to ensure interoperability SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
3534 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
3535 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
3536 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
3537 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
3538 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
3542 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
3544 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
3545 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
3546 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
3548 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
3549 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
3551 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
3553 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
3556 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
3557 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
3559 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
3560 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
3561 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
3562 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
3563 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
3564 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
3565 Most broken servers should now work.
3566 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
3567 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
3570 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
3573 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
3575 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
3576 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
3579 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
3580 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
3581 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
3582 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
3583 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
3586 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
3587 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
3588 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
3589 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
3590 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
3593 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
3594 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3596 *) Add support for SCTP.
3597 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3599 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3600 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3602 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
3604 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
3605 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
3606 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
3607 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
3608 - s390x: z196 support;
3609 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
3613 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
3614 (removal of unnecessary code)
3615 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
3617 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
3620 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.