5 This is a high-level summary of the most important changes.
6 For a full list of changes, see the git commit log; for example,
7 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/ and pick the appropriate
10 Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
12 *) Added command 'openssl kdf' that uses the EVP_KDF API.
15 *) Added command 'openssl mac' that uses the EVP_MAC API.
18 *) Added OPENSSL_info() to get diverse built-in OpenSSL data, such
19 as default directories. Also added the command 'openssl info'
20 for scripting purposes.
23 *) The functions AES_ige_encrypt() and AES_bi_ige_encrypt() have been
24 deprecated. These undocumented functions were never integrated into the EVP
25 layer and implement the AES Infinite Garble Extension (IGE) mode and AES
26 Bi-directional IGE mode. These modes were never formally standardised and
27 usage of these functions is believed to be very small. In particular
28 AES_bi_ige_encrypt() has a known bug. It accepts 2 AES keys, but only one
29 is ever used. The security implications are believed to be minimal, but
30 this issue was never fixed for backwards compatibility reasons. New code
31 should not use these modes.
34 *) Add prediction resistance to the DRBG reseeding process.
37 *) Limit the number of blocks in a data unit for AES-XTS to 2^20 as
38 mandated by IEEE Std 1619-2018.
41 *) Added newline escaping functionality to a filename when using openssl dgst.
42 This output format is to replicate the output format found in the '*sum'
43 checksum programs. This aims to preserve backward compatibility.
44 [Matt Eaton, Richard Levitte, and Paul Dale]
46 *) Removed the heartbeat message in DTLS feature, as it has very
47 little usage and doesn't seem to fulfill a valuable purpose.
48 The configuration option is now deprecated.
51 *) Changed the output of 'openssl {digestname} < file' to display the
52 digest name in its output.
55 *) Added a new generic trace API which provides support for enabling
56 instrumentation through trace output. This feature is mainly intended
57 as an aid for developers and is disabled by default. To utilize it,
58 OpenSSL needs to be configured with the `enable-trace` option.
60 If the tracing API is enabled, the application can activate trace output
61 by registering BIOs as trace channels for a number of tracing and debugging
64 The 'openssl' application has been expanded to enable any of the types
65 available via environment variables defined by the user, and serves as
66 one possible example on how to use this functionality.
67 [Richard Levitte & Matthias St. Pierre]
69 *) Added build tests for C++. These are generated files that only do one
70 thing, to include one public OpenSSL head file each. This tests that
71 the public header files can be usefully included in a C++ application.
73 This test isn't enabled by default. It can be enabled with the option
74 'enable-buildtest-c++'.
77 *) Add Single Step KDF (EVP_KDF_SS) to EVP_KDF.
80 *) Add KMAC to EVP_MAC.
83 *) Added property based algorithm implementation selection framework to
87 *) Added SCA hardening for modular field inversion in EC_GROUP through
88 a new dedicated field_inv() pointer in EC_METHOD.
89 This also addresses a leakage affecting conversions from projective
90 to affine coordinates.
91 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
93 *) Added EVP_KDF, an EVP layer KDF API, to simplify adding KDF and PRF
94 implementations. This includes an EVP_PKEY to EVP_KDF bridge for
95 those algorithms that were already supported through the EVP_PKEY API
96 (scrypt, TLS1 PRF and HKDF). The low-level KDF functions for PBKDF2
97 and scrypt are now wrappers that call EVP_KDF.
100 *) Build devcrypto engine as a dynamic engine.
103 *) Add keyed BLAKE2 to EVP_MAC.
106 *) Fix a bug in the computation of the endpoint-pair shared secret used
107 by DTLS over SCTP. This breaks interoperability with older versions
108 of OpenSSL like OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.2. There is a runtime
109 switch SSL_MODE_DTLS_SCTP_LABEL_LENGTH_BUG (off by default) enabling
110 interoperability with such broken implementations. However, enabling
111 this switch breaks interoperability with correct implementations.
113 *) Fix a use after free bug in d2i_X509_PUBKEY when overwriting a
114 re-used X509_PUBKEY object if the second PUBKEY is malformed.
117 *) Move strictness check from EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() to EVP_PKEY_asn1_add0().
120 *) Change the license to the Apache License v2.0.
123 *) Change the possible version information given with OPENSSL_API_COMPAT.
124 It may be a pre-3.0.0 style numerical version number as it was defined
125 in 1.1.0, and it may also simply take the major version number.
127 Because of the version numbering of pre-3.0.0 releases, the values 0,
128 1 and 2 are equivalent to 0x00908000L (0.9.8), 0x10000000L (1.0.0) and
129 0x10100000L (1.1.0), respectively.
132 *) Switch to a new version scheme using three numbers MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.
134 o Major releases (indicated by incrementing the MAJOR release number)
135 may introduce incompatible API/ABI changes.
136 o Minor releases (indicated by incrementing the MINOR release number)
137 may introduce new features but retain API/ABI compatibility.
138 o Patch releases (indicated by incrementing the PATCH number)
139 are intended for bug fixes and other improvements of existing
140 features only (like improving performance or adding documentation)
141 and retain API/ABI compatibility.
144 *) Add support for RFC5297 SIV mode (siv128), including AES-SIV.
147 *) Remove the 'dist' target and add a tarball building script. The
148 'dist' target has fallen out of use, and it shouldn't be
149 necessary to configure just to create a source distribution.
152 *) Recreate the OS390-Unix config target. It no longer relies on a
153 special script like it did for OpenSSL pre-1.1.0.
156 *) Instead of having the source directories listed in Configure, add
157 a 'build.info' keyword SUBDIRS to indicate what sub-directories to
161 *) Add GMAC to EVP_MAC.
164 *) Ported the HMAC, CMAC and SipHash EVP_PKEY_METHODs to EVP_MAC.
167 *) Added EVP_MAC, an EVP layer MAC API, to simplify adding MAC
168 implementations. This includes a generic EVP_PKEY to EVP_MAC bridge,
169 to facilitate the continued use of MACs through raw private keys in
170 functionality such as EVP_DigestSign* and EVP_DigestVerify*.
173 *) Deprecate ECDH_KDF_X9_62() and mark its replacement as internal. Users
174 should use the EVP interface instead (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_ecdh_kdf_type).
177 *) Added EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_63 and ecdh_KDF_X9_63() as replacements for
178 the EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_62 KDF type and ECDH_KDF_X9_62(). The old names
179 are retained for backwards compatibility.
182 *) AES-XTS mode now enforces that its two keys are different to mitigate
183 the attacked described in "Efficient Instantiations of Tweakable
184 Blockciphers and Refinements to Modes OCB and PMAC" by Phillip Rogaway.
185 Details of this attack can be obtained from:
186 http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/%7Erogaway/papers/offsets.pdf
189 *) Rename the object files, i.e. give them other names than in previous
190 versions. Their names now include the name of the final product, as
191 well as its type mnemonic (bin, lib, shlib).
194 *) Added new option for 'openssl list', '-objects', which will display the
195 list of built in objects, i.e. OIDs with names.
198 *) Added support for Linux Kernel TLS data-path. The Linux Kernel data-path
199 improves application performance by removing data copies and providing
200 applications with zero-copy system calls such as sendfile and splice.
203 Changes between 1.1.1a and 1.1.1b [xx XXX xxxx]
205 *) Change the info callback signals for the start and end of a post-handshake
206 message exchange in TLSv1.3. In 1.1.1/1.1.1a we used SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_START
207 and SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_DONE. Experience has shown that many applications get
208 confused by this and assume that a TLSv1.2 renegotiation has started. This
209 can break KeyUpdate handling. Instead we no longer signal the start and end
210 of a post handshake message exchange (although the messages themselves are
211 still signalled). This could break some applications that were expecting
212 the old signals. However without this KeyUpdate is not usable for many
216 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
218 *) Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation
220 The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
221 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
222 algorithm to recover the private key.
224 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 16th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
228 *) Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation
230 The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
231 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
232 algorithm to recover the private key.
234 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 25th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
238 *) Fixed the issue that RAND_add()/RAND_seed() silently discards random input
239 if its length exceeds 4096 bytes. The limit has been raised to a buffer size
240 of two gigabytes and the error handling improved.
242 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Dr. Falko Strenzke. It has been
243 categorized as a normal bug, not a security issue, because the DRBG reseeds
244 automatically and is fully functional even without additional randomness
245 provided by the application.
247 Changes between 1.1.0i and 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
249 *) Add a new ClientHello callback. Provides a callback interface that gives
250 the application the ability to adjust the nascent SSL object at the
251 earliest stage of ClientHello processing, immediately after extensions have
252 been collected but before they have been processed. In particular, this
253 callback can adjust the supported TLS versions in response to the contents
257 *) Add SM2 base algorithm support.
260 *) s390x assembly pack: add (improved) hardware-support for the following
261 cryptographic primitives: sha3, shake, aes-gcm, aes-ccm, aes-ctr, aes-ofb,
262 aes-cfb/cfb8, aes-ecb.
265 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
266 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
267 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
270 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
271 step for prime curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
272 differential addition-and-doubling in homogeneous projective coordinates
273 from Izu-Takagi "A fast parallel elliptic curve multiplication resistant
274 against side channel attacks" and Brier-Joye "Weierstrass Elliptic Curves
275 and Side-Channel Attacks" Eq. (8) for y-coordinate recovery, modified
276 to work in projective coordinates.
277 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
279 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
280 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
281 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
282 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
284 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
286 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
289 *) The 'tsget' script is renamed to 'tsget.pl', to avoid confusion when
290 moving between systems, and to avoid confusion when a Windows build is
291 done with mingw vs with MSVC. For POSIX installs, there's still a
292 symlink or copy named 'tsget' to avoid that confusion as well.
295 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
296 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
299 *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
300 step for binary curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
301 differential addition-and-doubling in mixed Lopez-Dahab projective
302 coordinates, modified to independently blind the operands.
303 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
305 *) Add a scaffold to optionally enhance the Montgomery ladder implementation
306 for `ec_scalar_mul_ladder` (formerly `ec_mul_consttime`) allowing
307 EC_METHODs to implement their own specialized "ladder step", to take
308 advantage of more favorable coordinate systems or more efficient
309 differential addition-and-doubling algorithms.
310 [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
312 *) Modified the random device based seed sources to keep the relevant
313 file descriptors open rather than reopening them on each access.
314 This allows such sources to operate in a chroot() jail without
315 the associated device nodes being available. This behaviour can be
316 controlled using RAND_keep_random_devices_open().
319 *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
320 performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
321 security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
325 *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
326 handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
327 different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
328 mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
329 doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
330 multi-version installation is managed.
333 *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
334 EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
335 mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
336 When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
337 EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
340 *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
341 coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
342 chosen point SCA attacks.
343 [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
345 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
346 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
349 *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
350 length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
351 a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
354 *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
355 I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
356 can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
357 Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
358 TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
359 around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
360 It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
361 SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
362 SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
365 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
366 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
369 *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
370 pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
373 *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
374 binary and prime elliptic curves.
377 *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
378 constant time fixed point multiplication.
381 *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
382 defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
383 when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
384 in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
385 ECDH derive operations).
386 [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida GarcÃa,
389 *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
392 *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
393 randomness from the system.
394 [Matthias St. Pierre]
396 *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
399 *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
400 loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
403 *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
406 *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
407 [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
409 *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
412 *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
413 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
414 SSL_set_ciphersuites()
417 *) Memory allocation failures consistenly add an error to the error
421 *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
422 in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
425 *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
428 *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
429 for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
430 [Matthias St. Pierre]
432 *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
433 for the license change).
436 *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
437 SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
440 *) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
441 configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
442 below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
443 In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
444 would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
445 configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
446 SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
449 *) On POSIX (BSD, Linux, ...) systems the ocsp(1) command running
450 in responder mode now supports the new "-multi" option, which
451 spawns the specified number of child processes to handle OCSP
452 requests. The "-timeout" option now also limits the OCSP
453 responder's patience to wait to receive the full client request
454 on a newly accepted connection. Child processes are respawned
455 as needed, and the CA index file is automatically reloaded
456 when changed. This makes it possible to run the "ocsp" responder
457 as a long-running service, making the OpenSSL CA somewhat more
458 feature-complete. In this mode, most diagnostic messages logged
459 after entering the event loop are logged via syslog(3) rather than
463 *) Added support for X448 and Ed448. Heavily based on original work by
467 *) Extend OSSL_STORE with capabilities to search and to narrow the set of
468 objects loaded. This adds the functions OSSL_STORE_expect() and
469 OSSL_STORE_find() as well as needed tools to construct searches and
470 get the search data out of them.
473 *) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
474 version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
475 that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
476 https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
479 *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
481 The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
482 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially
483 a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0
484 object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator
485 using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself
486 automatically using trusted system entropy sources.
488 Some of its new features are:
489 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
490 o The default RAND method makes use of a DRBG.
491 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
492 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
493 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
494 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
496 [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
498 *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
499 so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script
500 to display all sorts of configuration data.
503 *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure.
506 *) Added SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 algorithm support.
509 *) The last traces of Netware support, first removed in 1.1.0, have
513 *) Get rid of Makefile.shared, and in the process, make the processing
514 of certain files (rc.obj, or the .def/.map/.opt files produced from
515 the ordinal files) more visible and hopefully easier to trace and
516 debug (or make silent).
519 *) Make it possible to have environment variable assignments as
520 arguments to config / Configure.
523 *) Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support.
526 *) Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
527 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
528 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
529 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
531 *) Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
532 as documented in RFC6066.
533 Based on a patch from Tomasz Moń
534 [Filipe Raimundo da Silva]
536 *) Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
537 [ Jack Lloyd <jack.lloyd@ribose.com>,
538 Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@ribose.com>,
539 Erick Borsboom <erick.borsboom@ribose.com> ]
541 *) Reimplement -newreq-nodes and ERR_error_string_n; the
542 original author does not agree with the license change.
545 *) Add ARIA AEAD TLS support.
548 *) Some macro definitions to support VS6 have been removed. Visual
549 Studio 6 has not worked since 1.1.0
552 *) Add ERR_clear_last_mark(), to allow callers to clear the last mark
553 without clearing the errors.
556 *) Add "atfork" functions. If building on a system that without
557 pthreads, see doc/man3/OPENSSL_fork_prepare.pod for application
558 requirements. The RAND facility now uses/requires this.
564 *) The UI API becomes a permanent and integral part of libcrypto, i.e.
565 not possible to disable entirely. However, it's still possible to
566 disable the console reading UI method, UI_OpenSSL() (use UI_null()
569 To disable, configure with 'no-ui-console'. 'no-ui' is still
570 possible to use as an alias. Check at compile time with the
571 macro OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE. The macro OPENSSL_NO_UI is still
572 possible to check and is an alias for OPENSSL_NO_UI_CONSOLE.
575 *) Add a STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
576 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
577 objects. The main API is loosely based on a few stdio functions,
578 and includes OSSL_STORE_open, OSSL_STORE_load, OSSL_STORE_eof,
579 OSSL_STORE_error and OSSL_STORE_close.
580 The implementation uses backends called "loaders" to implement arbitrary
581 URI schemes. There is one built in "loader" for the 'file' scheme.
584 *) Add devcrypto engine. This has been implemented against cryptodev-linux,
585 then adjusted to work on FreeBSD 8.4 as well.
586 Enable by configuring with 'enable-devcryptoeng'. This is done by default
587 on BSD implementations, as cryptodev.h is assumed to exist on all of them.
590 *) Module names can prefixed with OSSL_ or OPENSSL_. This affects
591 util/mkerr.pl, which is adapted to allow those prefixes, leading to
592 error code calls like this:
594 OSSL_FOOerr(OSSL_FOO_F_SOMETHING, OSSL_FOO_R_WHATEVER);
596 With this change, we claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL in a manner
597 that can be encoded in C. For the foreseeable future, this will only
599 [Richard Levitte and Tim Hudson]
601 *) Removed BSD cryptodev engine.
604 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
605 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
606 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
607 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
610 *) In the UI interface, make it possible to duplicate the user data. This
611 can be used by engines that need to retain the data for a longer time
612 than just the call where this user data is passed.
615 *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
617 [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
619 *) Fragmented SSL/TLS alerts are no longer accepted. An alert message is 2
620 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
621 alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
622 it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
623 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
624 support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
625 record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
629 *) Add the ASN.1 types INT32, UINT32, INT64, UINT64 and variants prefixed
630 with Z. These are meant to replace LONG and ZLONG and to be size safe.
631 The use of LONG and ZLONG is discouraged and scheduled for deprecation
635 *) Add the 'z' and 'j' modifiers to BIO_printf() et al formatting string,
636 'z' is to be used for [s]size_t, and 'j' - with [u]int64_t.
637 [Richard Levitte, Andy Polyakov]
639 *) Add EC_KEY_get0_engine(), which does for EC_KEY what RSA_get0_engine()
643 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
644 platform rather than 'mingw'.
647 *) The functions X509_STORE_add_cert and X509_STORE_add_crl return
648 success if they are asked to add an object which already exists
649 in the store. This change cascades to other functions which load
650 certificates and CRLs.
653 *) x86_64 assembly pack: annotate code with DWARF CFI directives to
654 facilitate stack unwinding even from assembly subroutines.
657 *) Remove VAX C specific definitions of OPENSSL_EXPORT, OPENSSL_EXTERN.
658 Also remove OPENSSL_GLOBAL entirely, as it became a no-op.
661 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
662 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
663 which is the minimum version we support.
666 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
667 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
668 are no longer allowed.
671 *) Add support for ARIA
674 *) s_client will now send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension by
675 default unless the new "-noservername" option is used. The server name is
676 based on the host provided to the "-connect" option unless overridden by
680 *) Add support for SipHash
683 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
684 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
685 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
686 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
689 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
690 using the algorithm defined in
691 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
694 *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
695 [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
697 *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
700 *) The RSA "null" method, which was partially supported to avoid patent
701 issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
705 Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
707 *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
709 During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
710 malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
711 cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
712 key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
713 could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
715 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
719 *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
721 The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
722 a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
723 mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
724 recover the private key.
726 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
727 Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
731 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
732 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
733 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
736 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
737 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
740 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
741 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
742 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
743 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
745 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
747 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
750 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
751 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
754 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
755 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
758 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
759 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
760 are no longer allowed.
763 *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
765 Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
766 through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
767 signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
768 line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
769 at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
770 some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
771 and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
772 could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
773 OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
774 signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
775 OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
776 and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
777 the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
780 Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
782 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
784 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
785 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
786 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
787 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
788 so this is considered safe.
790 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
795 *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
797 Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
798 effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
799 byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
800 authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
801 security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
802 HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
804 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
809 *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
810 and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
811 things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
812 to that system and do the rest of the build there.
815 *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
817 OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
818 (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
819 changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
820 SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
821 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
823 Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
824 using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
825 accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
828 *) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
832 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
834 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
835 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
836 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
837 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
838 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
839 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
840 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
841 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
842 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
843 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
845 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
846 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
848 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
849 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
853 Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
855 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
857 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
858 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
859 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
860 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
861 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
862 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
863 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
864 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
865 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
866 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
867 key that is shared between multiple clients.
869 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
870 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
872 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
876 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
878 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
879 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
880 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
882 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
886 Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
888 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
889 platform rather than 'mingw'.
892 *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
893 VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
894 which is the minimum version we support.
897 Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
899 *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
901 During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
902 negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
903 this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
904 and servers are affected.
906 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
910 Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
912 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
914 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
915 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
916 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
918 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
922 *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
924 If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
925 exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
926 NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
929 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
933 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
935 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
936 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
937 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
938 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
939 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
940 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
941 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
942 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
943 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
944 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
945 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
946 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
947 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
949 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
953 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
955 *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
957 TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
958 a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
959 crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
961 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
965 *) CMS Null dereference
967 Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
968 dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
969 type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
970 structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
971 Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
974 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
978 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
980 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
981 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
982 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
983 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
984 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
985 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
986 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
987 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
988 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
989 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
990 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
991 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
992 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
993 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
995 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
996 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
997 providing reproducible case.
1001 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
1002 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
1005 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
1007 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
1009 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
1010 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
1011 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
1012 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
1013 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
1014 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
1016 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
1018 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
1022 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
1024 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
1026 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
1027 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
1028 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
1029 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
1030 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
1031 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
1032 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
1034 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
1038 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
1040 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
1041 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
1042 Denial Of Service attack.
1044 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
1048 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
1049 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
1051 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
1052 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
1053 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
1054 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
1055 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
1056 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
1057 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
1058 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
1059 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
1060 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
1061 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
1062 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
1063 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
1064 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
1065 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
1067 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
1068 that the connection fails
1070 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
1071 very little free memory
1073 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
1074 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
1075 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
1076 memory to service the multiple requests.
1078 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
1079 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
1080 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
1081 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
1082 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
1084 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
1085 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
1088 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
1089 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
1090 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
1091 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
1092 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
1093 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
1094 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
1097 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
1099 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
1100 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
1101 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
1102 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
1103 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
1107 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
1108 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
1109 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
1112 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
1113 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
1114 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
1115 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
1118 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
1119 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
1123 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
1124 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
1125 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
1126 no-ops and deprecated.
1129 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
1130 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
1132 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
1134 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
1135 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
1136 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
1139 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
1140 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
1141 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
1142 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
1143 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
1144 and the validity of object reference counter.
1145 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
1147 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
1148 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
1149 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
1150 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
1153 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
1156 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
1157 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
1158 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
1159 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
1161 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
1165 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
1166 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
1169 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
1172 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
1175 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
1176 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
1177 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
1178 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
1179 name and is used as is.
1182 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
1183 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
1184 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
1187 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
1188 the "no-shared" Configure option.
1191 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
1192 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
1196 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
1197 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
1198 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
1199 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
1200 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
1201 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
1202 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
1203 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
1204 COMP_zlib_cleanup().
1207 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
1208 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
1209 enabled with '--debug' builds.
1210 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
1212 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
1213 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1214 these have been added.
1217 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
1218 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
1219 functions for managing these have been added.
1222 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
1223 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
1224 these have been added.
1227 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
1228 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
1232 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
1235 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
1238 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
1239 it is always safe to #include a header now.
1242 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
1245 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
1248 *) Add support for HKDF.
1249 [Alessandro Ghedini]
1251 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
1254 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
1255 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
1256 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
1257 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
1258 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
1259 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
1260 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
1263 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
1264 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
1265 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
1268 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
1269 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
1270 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
1271 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
1272 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
1273 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
1274 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
1276 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1277 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1280 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
1283 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
1284 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
1285 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
1286 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
1287 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
1288 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
1292 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
1293 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
1296 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
1297 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
1298 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
1301 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
1302 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
1303 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
1304 implemented by other servers.
1307 *) Add X25519 support.
1308 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
1309 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
1310 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
1311 key generation and key derivation.
1313 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
1317 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
1318 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1319 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
1320 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
1321 seed, even if the seed is configured.
1323 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1324 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1325 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1326 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1327 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1328 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1329 that of a valid user.
1332 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
1333 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
1334 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
1335 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
1337 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
1338 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
1340 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
1341 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
1342 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
1343 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
1345 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
1346 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
1350 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
1351 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
1352 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
1353 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
1354 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
1355 of how OpenSSL was configured.
1357 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
1358 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
1359 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
1362 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
1365 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
1366 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
1367 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
1371 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
1372 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
1373 old #define's might need to be updated.
1374 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
1376 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
1379 *) New "unified" build system
1381 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
1382 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
1384 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
1385 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
1386 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
1388 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
1389 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
1390 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
1391 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
1394 With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
1395 and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
1396 on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
1397 cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
1398 libraries" in INSTALL.
1400 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
1403 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
1404 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
1405 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
1406 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
1409 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
1410 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
1412 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
1413 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
1414 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
1415 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
1416 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
1417 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
1418 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
1419 have been adapted accordingly.
1422 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
1426 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
1427 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
1428 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
1429 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
1432 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
1433 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
1434 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
1438 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
1439 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
1442 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
1443 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
1444 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
1446 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
1447 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
1448 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
1450 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
1451 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
1453 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
1454 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
1455 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
1456 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
1459 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
1460 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
1461 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
1462 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
1463 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
1467 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
1468 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
1469 straightforward and less interdependent.
1471 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
1472 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
1473 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
1475 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
1476 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
1477 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
1479 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
1480 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
1481 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
1482 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
1484 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
1485 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
1488 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
1489 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
1490 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
1491 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
1495 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
1497 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
1499 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
1500 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
1501 before trying to build now.*
1504 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
1508 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
1510 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
1511 the application's responsibility. The application provides
1512 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
1513 used to authenticate the peer.
1515 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
1516 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
1517 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
1518 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
1519 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
1522 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
1523 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
1524 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
1525 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
1526 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
1527 or the 1.1.0 releases.
1529 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
1530 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
1531 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
1532 support for the deprecated features from the library and
1533 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
1534 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
1535 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
1536 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
1539 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
1540 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
1541 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
1542 compile with later releases.
1544 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
1545 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
1546 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
1547 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
1548 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
1551 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
1552 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
1553 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
1554 MaxProtocol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
1555 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
1556 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
1557 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
1558 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
1561 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
1564 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
1565 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
1566 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
1569 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
1570 include the ec.h header file instead.
1573 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
1574 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
1575 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
1578 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
1579 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
1582 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
1583 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
1585 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
1586 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
1587 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
1590 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
1591 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
1592 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
1593 an already created structure.
1594 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
1595 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
1596 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
1597 for deprecated builds.
1600 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
1601 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
1602 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
1603 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
1604 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
1605 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
1606 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
1609 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
1610 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
1611 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
1612 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
1615 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
1616 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
1619 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
1620 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
1623 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
1624 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
1625 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
1626 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
1627 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
1628 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
1629 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
1633 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
1634 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
1635 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
1638 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
1641 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
1643 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
1645 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
1647 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
1648 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
1656 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
1657 set a mandatory field to NULL.
1659 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
1660 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
1661 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
1665 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
1668 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
1669 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
1670 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
1671 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
1674 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1675 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1676 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1677 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1680 *) Fix no-stdio build.
1681 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
1682 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
1684 *) New testing framework
1685 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
1686 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
1687 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
1688 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
1689 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
1690 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
1692 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
1694 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
1695 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
1699 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
1700 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
1701 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
1702 and others were changed. All are now documented.
1705 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1707 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1709 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
1710 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
1712 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
1713 original RSA_PSK patch.
1716 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
1717 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
1718 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
1719 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
1722 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
1723 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
1726 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
1727 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
1728 hasn't been working properly for a while.
1731 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
1732 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
1733 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
1734 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
1738 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
1739 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
1740 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
1741 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
1744 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
1745 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
1746 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
1747 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
1748 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
1749 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
1752 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
1753 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
1754 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
1755 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
1756 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
1757 header file has been removed.
1760 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
1761 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
1764 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
1765 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
1766 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
1768 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
1772 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
1775 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
1779 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
1782 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
1783 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
1784 initial patch which was a great help during development.
1787 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
1788 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
1789 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
1790 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
1793 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
1794 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
1795 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
1796 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
1797 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
1798 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
1801 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
1802 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
1803 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
1804 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
1807 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
1808 compatible client hello.
1811 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
1812 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
1813 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
1815 *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
1818 *) Removed old DES API.
1821 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
1827 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
1832 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
1835 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
1836 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
1837 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
1838 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
1839 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
1840 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
1841 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
1842 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
1843 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
1844 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
1845 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
1848 *) Cleaned up dead code
1849 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
1852 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
1853 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
1854 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
1857 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
1858 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
1859 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
1862 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
1863 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
1864 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
1866 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
1867 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
1868 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
1870 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1872 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1874 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1875 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1876 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1878 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1879 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1881 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1882 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1885 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1886 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1887 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1888 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1890 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1891 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1892 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1893 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1895 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1896 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1897 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1899 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1900 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1903 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
1905 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
1906 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
1908 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
1909 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
1911 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
1914 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
1918 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1919 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1920 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1921 algorithms and include tests cases.
1924 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
1928 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1929 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1932 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1933 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1935 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
1936 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
1939 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
1940 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
1944 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
1945 sign or verify all in one operation.
1948 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
1949 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
1950 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
1953 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
1956 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
1959 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
1960 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
1961 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
1962 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
1963 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
1966 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
1970 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
1971 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
1972 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
1975 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
1978 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
1979 POST to handle HMAC cases.
1982 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
1983 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
1986 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
1987 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
1988 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1991 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1992 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1993 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1994 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1995 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1996 requested amount of entropy.
1999 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
2000 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
2003 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
2004 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
2005 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
2009 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
2010 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
2011 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
2014 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
2015 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
2016 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
2017 will never use XTS mode.
2020 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
2021 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
2022 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
2023 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
2024 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
2025 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
2028 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
2029 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
2030 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
2031 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
2034 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
2035 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
2036 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
2039 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
2042 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
2045 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
2046 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
2049 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
2050 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
2053 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
2054 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
2057 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
2058 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
2059 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
2060 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
2061 and rename any affected symbols.
2064 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
2065 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
2068 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
2069 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
2070 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
2073 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2076 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
2077 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
2078 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
2081 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
2082 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
2085 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
2086 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
2087 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
2088 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
2089 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
2090 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
2094 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
2095 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
2096 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
2097 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
2098 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
2099 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
2100 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
2101 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
2104 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
2105 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
2108 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
2110 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2111 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
2113 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
2114 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
2115 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
2116 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
2117 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
2118 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
2120 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
2121 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
2122 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
2124 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
2126 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
2130 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
2131 Add CMAC pkey methods.
2134 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
2135 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
2136 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
2139 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
2140 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
2141 multi-process servers.
2144 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
2145 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
2146 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
2147 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
2148 RAND_METHOD structure.
2151 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
2152 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
2153 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
2154 whose return value is often ignored.
2157 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
2158 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
2159 validated when establishing a connection.
2160 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
2162 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
2164 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
2166 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
2167 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
2170 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
2171 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
2172 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
2173 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
2174 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
2177 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
2181 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
2183 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
2184 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
2185 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
2188 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
2189 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
2190 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
2191 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
2192 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
2193 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
2195 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2199 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
2201 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
2202 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
2203 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
2204 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
2205 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
2206 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
2207 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
2208 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
2209 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
2210 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
2211 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
2212 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
2213 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
2214 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
2215 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
2216 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
2218 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2222 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
2224 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
2225 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
2226 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
2228 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
2229 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
2230 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
2231 applications are not affected.
2233 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
2239 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
2240 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
2241 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
2243 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
2247 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
2248 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
2251 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
2255 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
2256 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
2259 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
2261 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
2262 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
2263 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
2266 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
2267 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
2268 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
2269 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
2270 will need to explicitly call either of:
2272 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2274 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
2276 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
2277 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
2278 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
2279 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
2280 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
2284 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
2286 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
2287 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
2288 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
2291 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
2296 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
2298 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
2300 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
2301 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
2302 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
2305 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
2306 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
2307 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
2308 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
2309 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
2310 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
2311 that of a valid user.
2315 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
2317 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
2318 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
2319 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
2320 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
2321 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
2322 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
2323 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
2324 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
2325 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
2326 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
2327 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
2329 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
2330 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
2331 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
2332 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
2333 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
2335 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
2339 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
2341 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
2342 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
2343 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
2345 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
2346 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
2347 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
2348 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
2349 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
2352 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
2353 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
2354 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
2355 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
2356 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
2357 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
2358 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
2359 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
2360 as command line arguments.
2362 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
2363 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
2364 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
2366 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
2370 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
2372 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
2373 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
2374 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
2375 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
2376 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
2378 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
2379 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
2380 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
2381 http://cachebleed.info.
2385 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
2386 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
2387 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
2388 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
2391 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
2392 *) DH small subgroups
2394 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
2395 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
2396 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
2397 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
2398 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
2399 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
2400 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
2401 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
2402 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
2403 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
2405 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
2406 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
2407 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
2408 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
2409 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
2411 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
2412 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
2413 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
2414 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
2416 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
2417 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
2419 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
2423 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
2425 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
2426 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
2427 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
2430 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
2431 and Sebastian Schinzel.
2435 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
2437 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
2439 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
2440 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
2441 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
2442 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
2443 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
2444 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
2445 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
2446 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
2447 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
2448 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
2449 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
2450 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
2452 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
2456 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
2458 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2459 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2460 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
2461 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
2462 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
2463 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
2464 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
2467 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
2471 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
2473 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
2474 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
2475 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
2476 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
2478 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
2483 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
2484 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
2485 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
2486 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
2489 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
2491 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
2493 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
2495 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
2497 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
2498 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
2499 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
2500 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
2501 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
2502 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
2504 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
2508 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
2510 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
2511 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
2515 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
2517 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
2519 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
2520 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
2523 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
2524 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
2525 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
2526 client authentication enabled.
2528 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
2532 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
2534 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
2535 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
2536 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
2539 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
2540 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
2541 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
2542 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
2543 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
2546 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
2547 independently by Hanno Böck.
2551 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
2553 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
2554 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
2555 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2557 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
2558 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
2559 servers are not affected.
2561 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2565 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
2567 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
2568 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
2569 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
2571 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
2575 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
2577 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
2578 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
2579 a double free of the ticket data.
2583 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
2584 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
2585 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
2588 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
2590 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
2592 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
2593 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
2594 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
2596 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
2599 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
2601 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
2603 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
2604 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
2605 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
2606 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
2607 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
2608 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
2609 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
2610 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
2612 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
2616 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
2618 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
2619 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
2620 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
2621 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
2622 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
2623 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
2624 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
2625 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
2628 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
2632 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
2634 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
2635 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
2636 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
2637 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2638 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2639 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2643 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
2645 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
2646 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
2647 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
2648 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
2649 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
2650 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
2651 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
2653 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
2657 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
2659 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
2660 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
2661 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
2663 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
2664 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
2665 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
2670 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
2672 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
2673 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
2674 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
2676 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
2677 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
2678 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
2680 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
2684 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
2686 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
2687 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
2688 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
2690 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
2691 (OpenSSL development team).
2695 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
2697 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
2698 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
2699 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
2703 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
2705 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
2706 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
2707 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
2708 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
2709 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
2710 SSL_client_methodv23)
2711 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
2712 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
2714 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
2715 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
2716 output may be predictable.
2718 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
2719 succeed on an unpatched platform:
2721 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
2725 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
2727 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
2728 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
2729 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
2730 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
2731 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
2732 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
2734 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
2739 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
2741 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
2742 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
2744 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
2748 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
2751 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
2753 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
2754 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
2755 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
2756 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
2757 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
2758 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
2761 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
2762 (other platforms pending).
2763 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
2765 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
2766 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
2769 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2770 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2771 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2774 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
2775 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
2776 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
2777 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
2780 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
2781 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
2783 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
2784 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
2785 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
2786 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
2787 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
2789 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
2792 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
2793 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
2794 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
2795 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
2797 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
2799 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
2801 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
2802 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
2803 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
2806 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
2809 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
2810 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
2811 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
2814 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
2815 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
2818 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
2819 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
2822 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
2823 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
2824 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
2825 algorithms and include tests cases.
2828 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
2830 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
2832 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
2833 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
2836 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
2837 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
2838 summary of the connection parameters.
2841 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
2842 of connection parameters.
2845 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
2846 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
2848 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
2849 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
2852 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
2855 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
2856 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
2859 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
2860 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
2863 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
2867 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
2868 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
2869 CRLs using the OCSP API.
2872 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
2875 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
2876 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
2879 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
2880 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
2881 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
2885 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
2886 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
2889 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
2893 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
2897 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
2898 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
2899 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
2900 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
2903 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
2904 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
2907 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
2908 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
2909 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
2913 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
2914 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
2915 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
2916 use the certificate.
2919 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
2922 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
2923 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
2924 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
2925 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
2926 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
2927 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
2928 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
2930 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
2931 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
2935 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
2936 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
2937 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
2940 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
2941 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
2942 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
2943 supported signature algorithms.
2946 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
2949 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
2950 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
2951 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
2952 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
2953 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
2954 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
2955 certificate and specify the whole chain.
2958 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
2959 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
2960 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
2961 to have similar checks in it.
2963 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
2964 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
2965 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
2966 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
2967 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
2970 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
2971 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
2972 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
2973 shared signature algorithms.
2976 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
2977 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
2981 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
2982 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
2983 it couldn't be removed.
2986 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
2987 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
2990 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2991 functions. Add manual page.
2992 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2994 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2995 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2999 *) Fix OCSP checking.
3000 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
3002 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
3003 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
3004 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
3005 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
3009 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
3010 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
3013 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
3014 platform support for Linux and Android.
3017 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
3020 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
3021 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
3022 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
3023 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
3024 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
3027 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
3028 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
3029 the new parameter format automatically.
3032 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
3033 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
3036 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
3039 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
3040 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
3041 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
3042 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
3043 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
3046 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
3047 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
3048 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
3049 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
3050 to set list of supported curves.
3053 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
3054 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
3055 to print out received values.
3058 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
3059 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
3060 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
3063 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
3064 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
3067 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
3068 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
3071 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
3075 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
3077 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
3078 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
3079 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
3081 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
3083 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
3084 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
3086 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
3088 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
3089 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
3090 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
3091 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
3095 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
3096 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
3097 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
3098 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
3099 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
3100 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
3104 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
3105 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
3106 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
3107 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
3111 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
3114 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
3115 reporting this issue.
3119 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
3120 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
3121 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
3122 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
3123 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
3124 INRIA or reporting this issue.
3128 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
3129 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
3130 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
3131 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
3132 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
3133 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
3134 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
3139 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
3140 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
3142 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
3143 and can vary with the CTX.
3146 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
3148 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
3149 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
3150 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
3151 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
3152 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
3154 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
3156 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
3157 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
3159 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
3161 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
3162 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
3163 errors for some broken certificates.
3165 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
3167 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
3169 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
3170 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
3172 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
3173 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
3174 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
3175 (negative or with leading zeroes).
3177 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
3178 of the OpenSSL core team.
3183 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
3184 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
3185 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
3186 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
3187 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
3188 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
3189 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
3190 the OpenSSL core team.
3194 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
3195 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
3196 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
3197 sanity and breaks all known clients.
3198 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
3200 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
3201 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
3202 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
3205 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
3206 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
3207 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3208 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
3209 announced in the initial ServerHello.
3211 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
3212 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
3213 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
3216 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
3218 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
3220 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
3221 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
3222 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
3223 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
3224 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
3225 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
3226 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
3228 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
3232 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
3234 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
3235 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
3236 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
3237 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
3238 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
3243 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
3245 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
3246 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
3247 configured to send them.
3249 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
3251 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
3252 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
3253 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
3255 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3257 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
3259 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
3260 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
3261 DigestInfo structures.
3263 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
3267 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
3269 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
3270 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
3271 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
3273 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
3274 Group for discovering this issue.
3278 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
3279 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
3280 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
3281 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
3282 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
3284 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
3285 researching this issue.
3289 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
3290 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
3291 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
3292 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
3294 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
3299 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
3300 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3301 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3305 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
3306 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
3307 Denial of Service attack.
3308 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
3312 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
3313 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
3314 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
3315 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
3320 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
3321 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
3322 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
3324 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
3329 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
3330 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
3331 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
3332 Denial of Service attack.
3334 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
3335 discovering and researching this issue.
3339 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
3340 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
3341 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
3342 output to the attacker.
3344 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
3346 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
3348 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
3349 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
3350 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
3353 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
3355 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
3356 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
3357 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
3359 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
3360 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
3361 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
3363 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
3364 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
3367 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
3369 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
3371 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
3372 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
3373 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
3374 code on a vulnerable client or server.
3376 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
3377 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
3379 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
3380 are subject to a denial of service attack.
3382 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
3383 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
3384 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
3386 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
3388 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3390 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
3391 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
3392 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3394 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
3395 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
3397 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
3399 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
3400 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
3403 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
3404 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
3405 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
3406 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
3408 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
3409 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
3410 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
3411 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
3413 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
3414 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
3415 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
3417 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
3419 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
3420 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
3421 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
3422 is at least 512 bytes long.
3424 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
3426 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
3428 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
3429 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
3430 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
3433 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
3434 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
3435 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
3438 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
3439 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
3440 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
3441 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
3442 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
3443 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
3444 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
3446 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
3448 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
3449 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
3450 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3452 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
3454 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
3456 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
3457 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
3458 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
3460 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3461 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3462 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
3463 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
3465 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3467 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
3468 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
3469 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
3470 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
3471 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
3475 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
3476 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
3479 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
3480 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3482 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
3483 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
3484 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
3485 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
3486 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
3488 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
3491 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
3495 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
3497 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
3498 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
3500 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
3501 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
3505 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
3506 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
3509 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
3513 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
3515 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
3516 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
3517 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
3518 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disabling
3519 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
3520 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
3521 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
3522 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
3523 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
3524 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
3527 *) In order to ensure interoperability SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
3528 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
3529 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
3530 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
3531 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
3532 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
3536 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
3538 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
3539 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
3540 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
3542 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
3543 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
3545 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
3547 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
3550 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
3551 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
3553 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
3554 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
3555 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
3556 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
3557 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
3558 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
3559 Most broken servers should now work.
3560 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
3561 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
3564 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
3567 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
3569 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
3570 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
3573 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
3574 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
3575 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
3576 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
3577 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
3580 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
3581 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
3582 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
3583 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
3584 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
3587 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
3588 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3590 *) Add support for SCTP.
3591 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3593 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3594 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3596 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
3598 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
3599 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
3600 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
3601 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
3602 - s390x: z196 support;
3603 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
3607 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
3608 (removal of unnecessary code)
3609 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
3611 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
3614 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
3617 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
3618 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
3619 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
3621 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
3623 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
3624 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
3625 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
3626 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
3627 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
3629 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
3630 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
3631 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
3633 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
3634 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
3635 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
3637 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
3638 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
3640 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3642 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
3643 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
3644 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
3647 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
3648 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
3652 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
3653 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
3654 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
3657 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
3658 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
3659 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
3660 the appropriate parameters.
3663 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
3664 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
3665 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
3666 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
3667 against a number of sample certificates.
3670 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
3671 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
3673 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
3674 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
3676 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
3677 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
3681 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
3685 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
3686 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
3687 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
3688 password based CMS).
3691 *) Session-handling fixes:
3692 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
3693 but also support Session Tickets.
3694 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
3695 presented a ticket with an expired session.
3696 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
3697 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
3698 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
3699 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3701 *) Fix PSK session representation.
3704 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
3706 This work was sponsored by Intel.
3709 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
3710 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
3711 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
3712 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
3713 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
3716 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
3717 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
3720 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
3721 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
3722 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
3725 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
3726 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
3727 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
3728 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
3731 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
3732 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
3733 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
3736 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
3737 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
3739 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
3742 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
3743 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
3746 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
3749 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
3750 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
3753 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
3754 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
3757 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
3760 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
3761 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
3762 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
3765 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3768 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
3771 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
3772 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
3775 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
3776 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
3777 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
3780 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
3783 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
3787 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
3788 FIPS modules versions.
3791 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
3792 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
3793 until after the certificate request message is received.
3796 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
3797 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
3798 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
3799 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
3802 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
3803 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
3804 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
3805 support yet and no support for client certificates.
3808 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
3809 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
3810 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
3811 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
3812 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
3813 and version checking.
3816 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
3817 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
3818 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
3819 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
3822 *) A long standing patch to add support for SRP from EdelWeb (Peter
3823 Sylvester and Christophe Renou) was integrated.
3824 [Christophe Renou <christophe.renou@edelweb.fr>, Peter Sylvester
3825 <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>, Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu>, and
3828 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
3831 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
3832 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
3833 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
3835 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
3836 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
3837 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
3840 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
3841 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
3843 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
3844 a few changes are required:
3846 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
3847 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
3848 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
3849 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
3850 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
3853 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
3855 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
3856 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
3857 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
3858 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
3859 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
3860 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
3861 an MMA defence is not necessary.
3862 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
3863 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
3866 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
3867 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
3868 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
3871 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
3873 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
3874 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
3875 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
3876 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
3879 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
3881 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
3882 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
3883 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
3884 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
3885 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
3886 paper describing this attack can be found at:
3887 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
3888 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
3889 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
3890 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
3891 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
3892 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
3893 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
3895 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
3897 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3899 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
3900 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
3901 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
3902 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3904 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
3905 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
3907 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
3908 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
3909 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
3910 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3912 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
3913 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
3915 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
3916 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3918 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
3919 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3921 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
3922 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
3923 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3925 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
3926 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
3927 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
3929 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
3930 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
3931 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
3932 the last update always remained unused).
3933 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
3935 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
3936 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
3938 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
3940 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
3941 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
3942 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
3944 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
3945 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
3946 [Adam Langley (Google)]
3948 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
3951 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
3952 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
3953 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
3956 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
3957 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
3959 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
3961 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
3963 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
3965 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
3966 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3968 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
3969 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
3973 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
3975 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
3976 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
3977 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
3980 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
3981 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
3982 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
3985 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
3987 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
3988 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
3989 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
3992 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
3996 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
3998 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
4000 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
4002 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
4004 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
4005 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
4006 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
4009 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
4012 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
4013 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
4014 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
4016 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
4017 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
4018 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
4021 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
4022 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
4025 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
4026 some responders need this.
4029 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
4031 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
4033 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
4034 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
4035 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
4038 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
4041 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
4042 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
4043 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
4044 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
4045 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
4046 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
4047 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
4048 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
4051 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
4052 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
4053 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
4054 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
4056 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
4057 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
4059 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
4063 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
4064 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
4065 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
4066 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
4067 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
4068 attempting to work them out.
4071 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
4072 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
4073 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
4074 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
4077 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
4078 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
4079 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
4080 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
4081 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
4084 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
4085 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
4092 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
4094 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
4098 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
4099 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
4101 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
4102 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
4104 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
4105 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
4106 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
4107 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
4108 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
4111 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
4112 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
4113 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
4116 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
4117 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
4120 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
4121 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
4123 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
4124 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
4127 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
4130 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
4131 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
4132 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
4136 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
4137 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
4138 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
4139 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
4140 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
4141 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
4144 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
4145 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
4147 This work was sponsored by Google.
4150 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
4151 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
4152 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
4153 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
4154 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
4155 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications won't
4156 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
4159 This work was sponsored by Google.
4162 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
4164 This work was sponsored by Google.
4167 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
4168 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
4169 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
4170 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
4172 This work was sponsored by Google.
4175 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
4176 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
4177 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
4178 CRL functionality in future.
4180 This work was sponsored by Google.
4183 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
4185 This work was sponsored by Google.
4188 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
4189 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
4191 This work was sponsored by Google.
4194 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
4195 and URI types are currently supported.
4197 This work was sponsored by Google.
4200 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
4201 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
4202 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
4203 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
4204 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
4205 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
4206 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
4207 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
4209 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
4210 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
4211 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
4213 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
4214 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
4215 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
4216 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
4218 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
4219 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
4220 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
4221 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
4222 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
4223 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
4224 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
4225 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
4227 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
4229 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
4230 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
4231 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
4233 This work was sponsored by Google.
4236 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
4239 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
4240 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
4241 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
4244 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
4245 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
4248 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
4249 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
4252 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
4253 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
4254 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
4255 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
4256 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
4257 content types and variants.
4260 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
4263 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
4264 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
4265 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
4266 files from the associated perl scripts.
4269 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
4270 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
4271 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
4273 *) s390x assembler pack.
4276 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
4280 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
4281 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
4282 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
4283 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
4284 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
4285 to use. For example, specify an option
4287 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527