5 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
9 *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
10 using the algorithm defined in
11 https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
14 Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [xx XXX xxxx]
16 *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
17 as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
20 Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
22 *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
24 The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
25 message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
26 store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
27 dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
28 write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
29 crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
31 This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
33 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
37 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
39 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
41 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
42 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
43 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
44 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
45 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
46 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
47 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
49 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
53 *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
55 OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
56 sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
57 Denial Of Service attack.
59 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
63 *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
64 dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
66 A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
67 message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
68 this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
69 peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
70 being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
71 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
72 the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
73 OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
74 to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
75 memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
76 place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
77 that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed conneciton in a timely
78 manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
79 again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
80 nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
82 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
83 that the connection fails
85 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
86 very little free memory
88 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
89 multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
90 connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
91 memory to service the multiple requests.
93 Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
94 transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
95 subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
96 increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
97 memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
99 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
100 (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
103 *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
104 had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
105 assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
106 support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
107 lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
108 security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
109 prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
112 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
114 *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments
115 and console input. Setting OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8 environment variable
116 (to any value) allows Windows user to access PKCS#12 file generated
117 with Windows CryptoAPI and protected with non-ASCII password, as well
118 as files generated under UTF-8 locale on Linux also protected with
122 *) To mitigate the SWEET32 attack (CVE-2016-2183), 3DES cipher suites
123 have been disabled by default and removed from DEFAULT, just like RC4.
124 See the RC4 item below to re-enable both.
127 *) The method for finding the storage location for the Windows RAND seed file
128 has changed. First we check %RANDFILE%. If that is not set then we check
129 the directories %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT% in that order. If
130 all else fails we fall back to C:\.
133 *) The EVP_EncryptUpdate() function has had its return type changed from void
134 to int. A return of 0 indicates and error while a return of 1 indicates
138 *) The flags RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME and
139 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME which previously provided the ability to switch
140 off the constant time implementation for RSA, DSA and DH have been made
141 no-ops and deprecated.
144 *) Windows RAND implementation was simplified to only get entropy by
145 calling CryptGenRandom(). Various other RAND-related tickets
147 [Joseph Wylie Yandle, Rich Salz]
149 *) The stack and lhash API's were renamed to start with OPENSSL_SK_
150 and OPENSSL_LH_, respectively. The old names are available
151 with API compatibility. They new names are now completely documented.
154 *) Unify TYPE_up_ref(obj) methods signature.
155 SSL_CTX_up_ref(), SSL_up_ref(), X509_up_ref(), EVP_PKEY_up_ref(),
156 X509_CRL_up_ref(), X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count() methods are now returning an
157 int (instead of void) like all others TYPE_up_ref() methods.
158 So now these methods also check the return value of CRYPTO_atomic_add(),
159 and the validity of object reference counter.
160 [fdasilvayy@gmail.com]
162 *) With Windows Visual Studio builds, the .pdb files are installed
163 alongside the installed libraries and executables. For a static
164 library installation, ossl_static.pdb is the associate compiler
165 generated .pdb file to be used when linking programs.
168 *) Remove openssl.spec. Packaging files belong with the packagers.
171 *) Automatic Darwin/OSX configuration has had a refresh, it will now
172 recognise x86_64 architectures automatically. You can still decide
173 to build for a different bitness with the environment variable
174 KERNEL_BITS (can be 32 or 64), for example:
176 KERNEL_BITS=32 ./config
180 *) Change default algorithms in pkcs8 utility to use PKCS#5 v2.0,
181 256 bit AES and HMAC with SHA256.
184 *) Remove support for MIPS o32 ABI on IRIX (and IRIX only).
187 *) Triple-DES ciphers have been moved from HIGH to MEDIUM.
190 *) To enable users to have their own config files and build file templates,
191 Configure looks in the directory indicated by the environment variable
192 OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR as well as the in-source Configurations/
193 directory. On VMS, OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR is expected to be a logical
194 name and is used as is.
197 *) The following datatypes were made opaque: X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX,
198 X509_STORE, X509_LOOKUP, and X509_LOOKUP_METHOD. The unused type
199 X509_CERT_FILE_CTX was removed.
202 *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
203 the "no-shared" Configure option.
206 *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
207 All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
211 *) Make various cleanup routines no-ops and mark them as deprecated. Most
212 global cleanup functions are no longer required because they are handled
213 via auto-deinit (see OPENSSL_init_crypto and OPENSSL_init_ssl man pages).
214 Explicitly de-initing can cause problems (e.g. where a library that uses
215 OpenSSL de-inits, but an application is still using it). The affected
216 functions are CONF_modules_free(), ENGINE_cleanup(), OBJ_cleanup(),
217 EVP_cleanup(), BIO_sock_cleanup(), CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(),
218 RAND_cleanup(), SSL_COMP_free_compression_methods(), ERR_free_strings() and
222 *) --strict-warnings no longer enables runtime debugging options
223 such as REF_DEBUG. Instead, debug options are automatically
224 enabled with '--debug' builds.
225 [Andy Polyakov, Emilia Käsper]
227 *) Made DH and DH_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DH objects
228 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
229 these have been added.
232 *) Made RSA and RSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing RSA
233 objects have been moved out of the public header files. New
234 functions for managing these have been added.
237 *) Made DSA and DSA_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing DSA objects
238 have been moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing
239 these have been added.
242 *) Made BIO and BIO_METHOD opaque. The structures for managing BIOs have been
243 moved out of the public header files. New functions for managing these
247 *) Removed no-rijndael as a config option. Rijndael is an old name for AES.
250 *) Removed the mk1mf build scripts.
253 *) Headers are now wrapped, if necessary, with OPENSSL_NO_xxx, so
254 it is always safe to #include a header now.
257 *) Removed the aged BC-32 config and all its supporting scripts
260 *) Removed support for Ultrix, Netware, and OS/2.
263 *) Add support for HKDF.
266 *) Add support for blake2b and blake2s
269 *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
270 EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
271 encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
272 ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
273 to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
274 into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
275 processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
278 *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
279 offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
280 AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
283 *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
284 set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
285 are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is
286 also possible to configure OpenSSL at compile time for "no-threads". The
287 old threading API should no longer be used. The functions have been
288 replaced with "no-op" compatibility macros.
289 [Alessandro Ghedini, Matt Caswell]
291 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
292 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
295 *) Add SSL_CIPHER queries for authentication and key-exchange.
298 *) Changes to the DEFAULT cipherlist:
299 - Prefer (EC)DHE handshakes over plain RSA.
300 - Prefer AEAD ciphers over legacy ciphers.
301 - Prefer ECDSA over RSA when both certificates are available.
302 - Prefer TLSv1.2 ciphers/PRF.
303 - Remove DSS, SEED, IDEA, CAMELLIA, and AES-CCM from the
307 *) Change the ECC default curve list to be this, in order: x25519,
308 secp256r1, secp521r1, secp384r1.
311 *) RC4 based libssl ciphersuites are now classed as "weak" ciphers and are
312 disabled by default. They can be re-enabled using the
313 enable-weak-ssl-ciphers option to Configure.
316 *) If the server has ALPN configured, but supports no protocols that the
317 client advertises, send a fatal "no_application_protocol" alert.
318 This behaviour is SHALL in RFC 7301, though it isn't universally
319 implemented by other servers.
322 *) Add X25519 support.
323 Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
324 for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
325 draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The coresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
326 key generation and key derivation.
328 TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
332 *) Deprecate SRP_VBASE_get_by_user.
333 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
334 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak (CVE-2016-0798),
335 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP
336 seed, even if the seed is configured.
338 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
339 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
340 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
341 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
342 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
343 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
344 that of a valid user.
347 *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
348 without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This
349 only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
350 will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
352 Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
353 the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
355 The only requirements for building dynamic engines are the
356 presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
357 code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
358 with "disable-dso" or "disable-pic".
360 The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
361 are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
365 *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
366 position independent code, it will always be applied on the
367 libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
368 object files. This means other libraries that use routines from
369 libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
370 of how OpenSSL was configured.
372 If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
373 or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will
374 also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
377 *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use.
380 *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
381 DESTDIR. That makes for less confusion on what this variable
382 is for. Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
386 *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
387 for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats. Code that uses the
388 old #define's might need to be updated.
389 [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
391 *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
394 *) New "unified" build system
396 The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
397 platforms we support. With it comes new support for VMS.
399 This system builds supports building in a different directory tree
400 than the source tree. It produces one Makefile (for unix family
401 or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
403 The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
404 small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
405 information for each directory with source to compile, and a
406 template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
409 We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
412 *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
413 OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
414 except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
415 OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
418 *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
419 "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.
421 *) Rewrite of BIO networking library. The BIO library lacked consistent
422 support of IPv6, and adding it required some more extensive
423 modifications. This introduces the BIO_ADDR and BIO_ADDRINFO types,
424 which hold all types of addresses and chains of address information.
425 It also introduces a new API, with functions like BIO_socket,
426 BIO_connect, BIO_listen, BIO_lookup and a rewrite of BIO_accept.
427 The source/sink BIOs BIO_s_connect, BIO_s_accept and BIO_s_datagram
428 have been adapted accordingly.
431 *) RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1 now accepts inputs with and without
435 *) CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is
436 compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression
437 by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by
438 using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression.
441 *) The signature of the session callback configured with
442 SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb was changed. The read-only input buffer
443 was explicitly marked as 'const unsigned char*' instead of
447 *) Always DPURIFY. Remove the use of uninitialized memory in the
448 RNG, and other conditional uses of DPURIFY. This makes -DPURIFY a no-op.
451 *) Removed many obsolete configuration items, including
452 DES_PTR, DES_RISC1, DES_RISC2, DES_INT
453 MD2_CHAR, MD2_INT, MD2_LONG
455 IDEA_SHORT, IDEA_LONG
456 RC2_SHORT, RC2_LONG, RC4_LONG, RC4_CHUNK, RC4_INDEX
457 [Rich Salz, with advice from Andy Polyakov]
459 *) Many BN internals have been moved to an internal header file.
460 [Rich Salz with help from Andy Polyakov]
462 *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed.
463 Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now
464 produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and
465 crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module
468 Also, the center of configuration information is no longer
469 Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in
470 configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash
471 table %config), the target data that comes from the target
472 configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in
476 *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options
477 --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more
478 straightforward and less interdependent.
480 --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP
481 where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are
482 going to be installed. The default is now /usr/local.
484 --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default
485 location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are
486 managed. This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets
488 If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the
489 values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will
490 be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.
491 The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.
493 Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be
494 installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.
497 *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up
498 to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.
499 See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains
500 support for GOST ciphersuites (these are only activated if a GOST engine
504 *) EGD is no longer supported by default; use enable-egd when
506 [Ben Kaduk and Rich Salz]
508 *) The distribution now has Makefile.in files, which are used to
509 create Makefile's when Configure is run. *Configure must be run
510 before trying to build now.*
513 *) The return value for SSL_CIPHER_description() for error conditions
517 *) Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication.
519 Obtaining and performing DNSSEC validation of TLSA records is
520 the application's responsibility. The application provides
521 the TLSA records of its choice to OpenSSL, and these are then
522 used to authenticate the peer.
524 The TLSA records need not even come from DNS. They can, for
525 example, be used to implement local end-entity certificate or
526 trust-anchor "pinning", where the "pin" data takes the form
527 of TLSA records, which can augment or replace verification
528 based on the usual WebPKI public certification authorities.
531 *) Revert default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED setting. Instead OpenSSL
532 continues to support deprecated interfaces in default builds.
533 However, applications are strongly advised to compile their
534 source files with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L, which hides
535 the declarations of all interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8, 1.0.0
536 or the 1.1.0 releases.
538 In environments in which all applications have been ported to
539 not use any deprecated interfaces OpenSSL's Configure script
540 should be used with the --api=1.1.0 option to entirely remove
541 support for the deprecated features from the library and
542 unconditionally disable them in the installed headers.
543 Essentially the same effect can be achieved with the "no-deprecated"
544 argument to Configure, except that this will always restrict
545 the build to just the latest API, rather than a fixed API
548 As applications are ported to future revisions of the API,
549 they should update their compile-time OPENSSL_API_COMPAT define
550 accordingly, but in most cases should be able to continue to
551 compile with later releases.
553 The OPENSSL_API_COMPAT versions for 1.0.0, and 0.9.8 are
554 0x10000000L and 0x00908000L, respectively. However those
555 versions did not support the OPENSSL_API_COMPAT feature, and
556 so applications are not typically tested for explicit support
557 of just the undeprecated features of either release.
560 *) Add support for setting the minimum and maximum supported protocol.
561 It can bet set via the SSL_set_min_proto_version() and
562 SSL_set_max_proto_version(), or via the SSL_CONF's MinProtocol and
563 MaxProtcol. It's recommended to use the new APIs to disable
564 protocols instead of disabling individual protocols using
565 SSL_set_options() or SSL_CONF's Protocol. This change also
566 removes support for disabling TLS 1.2 in the OpenSSL TLS
567 client at compile time by defining OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT.
570 *) Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl.
573 *) New EC_KEY_METHOD, this replaces the older ECDSA_METHOD and ECDH_METHOD
574 and integrates ECDSA and ECDH functionality into EC. Implementations can
575 now redirect key generation and no longer need to convert to or from
578 Note: the ecdsa.h and ecdh.h headers are now no longer needed and just
579 include the ec.h header file instead.
582 *) Remove support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers. This includes all the export
583 ciphers who are no longer supported and drops support the ephemeral RSA key
584 exchange. The LOW ciphers currently doesn't have any ciphers in it.
587 *) Made EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and HMAC_CTX
588 opaque. For HMAC_CTX, the following constructors and destructors
591 HMAC_CTX *HMAC_CTX_new(void);
592 void HMAC_CTX_free(HMAC_CTX *ctx);
594 For EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER, complete APIs to create, fill and
595 destroy such methods has been added. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) and
596 EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3) for documentation.
599 1) EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() and
600 HMAC_CTX_cleanup() were removed. HMAC_CTX_reset() and
601 EVP_MD_CTX_reset() should be called instead to reinitialise
602 an already created structure.
603 2) For consistency with the majority of our object creators and
604 destructors, EVP_MD_CTX_(create|destroy) were renamed to
605 EVP_MD_CTX_(new|free). The old names are retained as macros
606 for deprecated builds.
609 *) Added ASYNC support. Libcrypto now includes the async sub-library to enable
610 cryptographic operations to be performed asynchronously as long as an
611 asynchronous capable engine is used. See the ASYNC_start_job() man page for
612 further details. Libssl has also had this capability integrated with the
613 introduction of the new mode SSL_MODE_ASYNC and associated error
614 SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC. See the SSL_CTX_set_mode() and SSL_get_error() man
615 pages. This work was developed in partnership with Intel Corp.
618 *) SSL_{CTX_}set_ecdh_auto() has been removed and ECDH is support is
619 always enabled now. If you want to disable the support you should
620 exclude it using the list of supported ciphers. This also means that the
621 "-no_ecdhe" option has been removed from s_server.
624 *) SSL_{CTX}_set_tmp_ecdh() which can set 1 EC curve now internally calls
625 SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves() which can set a list.
628 *) Remove support for SSL_{CTX_}set_tmp_ecdh_callback(). You should set the
629 curve you want to support using SSL_{CTX_}set1_curves().
632 *) State machine rewrite. The state machine code has been significantly
633 refactored in order to remove much duplication of code and solve issues
634 with the old code (see ssl/statem/README for further details). This change
635 does have some associated API changes. Notably the SSL_state() function
636 has been removed and replaced by SSL_get_state which now returns an
637 "OSSL_HANDSHAKE_STATE" instead of an int. SSL_set_state() has been removed
638 altogether. The previous handshake states defined in ssl.h and ssl3.h have
642 *) All instances of the string "ssleay" in the public API were replaced
643 with OpenSSL (case-matching; e.g., OPENSSL_VERSION for #define's)
644 Some error codes related to internal RSA_eay API's were renamed.
647 *) The demo files in crypto/threads were moved to demo/threads.
650 *) Removed obsolete engines: 4758cca, aep, atalla, cswift, nuron, gmp,
652 [Matt Caswell, Rich Salz]
654 *) New ASN.1 embed macro.
656 New ASN.1 macro ASN1_EMBED. This is the same as ASN1_SIMPLE except the
657 structure is not allocated: it is part of the parent. That is instead of
665 This reduces memory fragmentation and make it impossible to accidentally
666 set a mandatory field to NULL.
668 This currently only works for some fields specifically a SEQUENCE, CHOICE,
669 or ASN1_STRING type which is part of a parent SEQUENCE. Since it is
670 equivalent to ASN1_SIMPLE it cannot be tagged, OPTIONAL, SET OF or
674 *) Remove EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY, a compile-time option that never compiled.
677 *) Removed DES and RC4 ciphersuites from DEFAULT. Also removed RC2 although
678 in 1.0.2 EXPORT was already removed and the only RC2 ciphersuite is also
679 an EXPORT one. COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT has been updated accordingly to add
680 DES and RC4 ciphersuites.
683 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
684 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
685 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
686 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
689 *) Fix no-stdio build.
690 [ David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> and also
691 Ivan Nestlerode <ivan.nestlerode@sonos.com> ]
693 *) New testing framework
694 The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
695 perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of
696 Test::More called OpenSSL::Test to do its work. All test scripts in
697 test/ have been rewritten into test recipes, and all direct calls to
698 executables in test/Makefile have become individual recipes using the
699 simplified testing OpenSSL::Test::Simple.
701 For documentation on our testing modules, do:
703 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm
704 perldoc test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test.pm
708 *) Revamped memory debug; only -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG and -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG_ABORT
709 are used; the latter aborts on memory leaks (usually checked on exit).
710 Some undocumented "set malloc, etc., hooks" functions were removed
711 and others were changed. All are now documented.
714 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
716 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
718 *) Rewrite PSK to support ECDHE_PSK, DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK. Add ciphersuites
719 from RFC4279, RFC4785, RFC5487, RFC5489.
721 Thanks to Christian J. Dietrich and Giuseppe D'Angelo for the
722 original RSA_PSK patch.
725 *) Dropped support for the SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED flag. This SSLeay
726 era flag was never set throughout the codebase (only read). Also removed
727 SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER which was only used if
728 SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED was also set.
731 *) Changed the default name options in the "ca", "crl", "req" and "x509"
732 to be "oneline" instead of "compat".
735 *) Remove SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG. This is SSLeay legacy, we're
736 not aware of clients that still exhibit this bug, and the workaround
737 hasn't been working properly for a while.
740 *) The return type of BIO_number_read() and BIO_number_written() as well as
741 the corresponding num_read and num_write members in the BIO structure has
742 changed from unsigned long to uint64_t. On platforms where an unsigned
743 long is 32 bits (e.g. Windows) these counters could overflow if >4Gb is
747 *) Given the pervasive nature of TLS extensions it is inadvisable to run
748 OpenSSL without support for them. It also means that maintaining
749 the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option within the code is very invasive (and probably
750 not well tested). Therefore the OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT option has been removed.
753 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
754 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
755 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
756 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
757 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
758 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
761 *) Version negotiation has been rewritten. In particular SSLv23_method(),
762 SSLv23_client_method() and SSLv23_server_method() have been deprecated,
763 and turned into macros which simply call the new preferred function names
764 TLS_method(), TLS_client_method() and TLS_server_method(). All new code
765 should use the new names instead. Also as part of this change the ssl23.h
766 header file has been removed.
769 *) Support for Kerberos ciphersuites in TLS (RFC2712) has been removed. This
770 code and the associated standard is no longer considered fit-for-purpose.
773 *) RT2547 was closed. When generating a private key, try to make the
774 output file readable only by the owner. This behavior change might
775 be noticeable when interacting with other software.
777 *) Documented all exdata functions. Added CRYPTO_free_ex_index.
781 *) Added HTTP GET support to the ocsp command.
784 *) Changed default digest for the dgst and enc commands from MD5 to
788 *) RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated. Users should use RAND_bytes instead.
791 *) Added support for TLS extended master secret from
792 draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03.txt. Thanks for Alfredo Pironti for an
793 initial patch which was a great help during development.
796 *) All libssl internal structures have been removed from the public header
797 files, and the OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN option has been removed (since it is
798 now redundant). Users should not attempt to access internal structures
799 directly. Instead they should use the provided API functions.
802 *) config has been changed so that by default OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is used.
803 Access to deprecated functions can be re-enabled by running config with
804 "enable-deprecated". In addition applications wishing to use deprecated
805 functions must define OPENSSL_USE_DEPRECATED. Note that this new behaviour
806 will, by default, disable some transitive includes that previously existed
807 in the header files (e.g. ec.h will no longer, by default, include bn.h)
810 *) Added support for OCB mode. OpenSSL has been granted a patent license
811 compatible with the OpenSSL license for use of OCB. Details are available
812 at https://www.openssl.org/source/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf. Support
813 for OCB can be removed by calling config with no-ocb.
816 *) SSLv2 support has been removed. It still supports receiving a SSLv2
817 compatible client hello.
820 *) Increased the minimal RSA keysize from 256 to 512 bits [Rich Salz],
821 done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
822 [Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
824 *) CA.sh has been removmed; use CA.pl instead.
827 *) Removed old DES API.
830 *) Remove various unsupported platforms:
836 Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
841 16-bit platforms such as WIN16
844 *) Clean up OPENSSL_NO_xxx #define's
845 Use setbuf() and remove OPENSSL_NO_SETVBUF_IONBF
846 Rename OPENSSL_SYSNAME_xxx to OPENSSL_SYS_xxx
847 OPENSSL_NO_EC{DH,DSA} merged into OPENSSL_NO_EC
848 OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD160, OPENSSL_NO_RIPEMD merged into OPENSSL_NO_RMD160
849 OPENSSL_NO_FP_API merged into OPENSSL_NO_STDIO
850 Remove OPENSSL_NO_BIO OPENSSL_NO_BUFFER OPENSSL_NO_CHAIN_VERIFY
851 OPENSSL_NO_EVP OPENSSL_NO_FIPS_ERR OPENSSL_NO_HASH_COMP
852 OPENSSL_NO_LHASH OPENSSL_NO_OBJECT OPENSSL_NO_SPEED OPENSSL_NO_STACK
853 OPENSSL_NO_X509 OPENSSL_NO_X509_VERIFY
854 Remove MS_STATIC; it's a relic from platforms <32 bits.
857 *) Cleaned up dead code
858 Remove all but one '#ifdef undef' which is to be looked at.
861 *) Clean up calling of xxx_free routines.
862 Just like free(), fix most of the xxx_free routines to accept
863 NULL. Remove the non-null checks from callers. Save much code.
866 *) Add secure heap for storage of private keys (when possible).
867 Add BIO_s_secmem(), CBIGNUM, etc.
868 Contributed by Akamai Technologies under our Corporate CLA.
871 *) Experimental support for a new, fast, unbiased prime candidate generator,
872 bn_probable_prime_dh_coprime(). Not currently used by any prime generator.
873 [Felix Laurie von Massenbach <felix@erbridge.co.uk>]
875 *) New output format NSS in the sess_id command line tool. This allows
876 exporting the session id and the master key in NSS keylog format.
877 [Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>]
879 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
881 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
883 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
884 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
885 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
887 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
888 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
890 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
891 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
894 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
895 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
896 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
897 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
899 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
900 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
901 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
902 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
904 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
905 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
906 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
908 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
909 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
912 *) Experimental encrypt-then-mac support.
914 Experimental support for encrypt then mac from
915 draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-02.txt
917 To enable it set the appropriate extension number (0x42 for the test
918 server) using e.g. -DTLSEXT_TYPE_encrypt_then_mac=0x42
920 For non-compliant peers (i.e. just about everything) this should have no
923 WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
927 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
928 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
929 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
930 algorithms and include tests cases.
933 *) Extend CMS code to support RSA-PSS signatures and RSA-OAEP for
937 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
938 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
941 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
942 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
944 *) New function ASN1_TIME_diff to calculate the difference between two
945 ASN1_TIME structures or one structure and the current time.
948 *) Update fips_test_suite to support multiple command line options. New
949 test to induce all self test errors in sequence and check expected
953 *) Add FIPS_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}_{sign,verify} functions which digest and
954 sign or verify all in one operation.
957 *) Add fips_algvs: a multicall fips utility incorporating all the algorithm
958 test programs and fips_test_suite. Includes functionality to parse
959 the minimal script output of fipsalgest.pl directly.
962 *) Add authorisation parameter to FIPS_module_mode_set().
965 *) Add FIPS selftest for ECDH algorithm using P-224 and B-233 curves.
968 *) Use separate DRBG fields for internal and external flags. New function
969 FIPS_drbg_health_check() to perform on demand health checking. Add
970 generation tests to fips_test_suite with reduced health check interval to
971 demonstrate periodic health checking. Add "nodh" option to
972 fips_test_suite to skip very slow DH test.
975 *) New function FIPS_get_cipherbynid() to lookup FIPS supported ciphers
979 *) More extensive health check for DRBG checking many more failure modes.
980 New function FIPS_selftest_drbg_all() to handle every possible DRBG
981 combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
984 *) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
987 *) Add support for HMAC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and
988 POST to handle HMAC cases.
991 *) Add functions FIPS_module_version() and FIPS_module_version_text()
992 to return numerical and string versions of the FIPS module number.
995 *) Rename FIPS_mode_set and FIPS_mode to FIPS_module_mode_set and
996 FIPS_module_mode. FIPS_mode and FIPS_mode_set will be implemented
997 outside the validated module in the FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1000 *) Minor change to DRBG entropy callback semantics. In some cases
1001 there is no multiple of the block length between min_len and
1002 max_len. Allow the callback to return more than max_len bytes
1003 of entropy but discard any extra: it is the callback's responsibility
1004 to ensure that the extra data discarded does not impact the
1005 requested amount of entropy.
1008 *) Add PRNG security strength checks to RSA, DSA and ECDSA using
1009 information in FIPS186-3, SP800-57 and SP800-131A.
1012 *) CCM support via EVP. Interface is very similar to GCM case except we
1013 must supply all data in one chunk (i.e. no update, final) and the
1014 message length must be supplied if AAD is used. Add algorithm test
1018 *) Initial version of POST overhaul. Add POST callback to allow the status
1019 of POST to be monitored and/or failures induced. Modify fips_test_suite
1020 to use callback. Always run all selftests even if one fails.
1023 *) XTS support including algorithm test driver in the fips_gcmtest program.
1024 Note: this does increase the maximum key length from 32 to 64 bytes but
1025 there should be no binary compatibility issues as existing applications
1026 will never use XTS mode.
1029 *) Extensive reorganisation of FIPS PRNG behaviour. Remove all dependencies
1030 to OpenSSL RAND code and replace with a tiny FIPS RAND API which also
1031 performs algorithm blocking for unapproved PRNG types. Also do not
1032 set PRNG type in FIPS_mode_set(): leave this to the application.
1033 Add default OpenSSL DRBG handling: sets up FIPS PRNG and seeds with
1034 the standard OpenSSL PRNG: set additional data to a date time vector.
1037 *) Rename old X9.31 PRNG functions of the form FIPS_rand* to FIPS_x931*.
1038 This shouldn't present any incompatibility problems because applications
1039 shouldn't be using these directly and any that are will need to rethink
1040 anyway as the X9.31 PRNG is now deprecated by FIPS 140-2
1043 *) Extensive self tests and health checking required by SP800-90 DRBG.
1044 Remove strength parameter from FIPS_drbg_instantiate and always
1045 instantiate at maximum supported strength.
1048 *) Add ECDH code to fips module and fips_ecdhvs for primitives only testing.
1051 *) New algorithm test program fips_dhvs to handle DH primitives only testing.
1054 *) New function DH_compute_key_padded() to compute a DH key and pad with
1055 leading zeroes if needed: this complies with SP800-56A et al.
1058 *) Initial implementation of SP800-90 DRBGs for Hash and CTR. Not used by
1059 anything, incomplete, subject to change and largely untested at present.
1062 *) Modify fipscanisteronly build option to only build the necessary object
1063 files by filtering FIPS_EX_OBJ through a perl script in crypto/Makefile.
1066 *) Add experimental option FIPSSYMS to give all symbols in
1067 fipscanister.o and FIPS or fips prefix. This will avoid
1068 conflicts with future versions of OpenSSL. Add perl script
1069 util/fipsas.pl to preprocess assembly language source files
1070 and rename any affected symbols.
1073 *) Add selftest checks and algorithm block of non-fips algorithms in
1074 FIPS mode. Remove DES2 from selftests.
1077 *) Add ECDSA code to fips module. Add tiny fips_ecdsa_check to just
1078 return internal method without any ENGINE dependencies. Add new
1079 tiny fips sign and verify functions.
1082 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
1085 *) New build option "fipscanisteronly". This only builds fipscanister.o
1086 and (currently) associated fips utilities. Uses the file Makefile.fips
1087 instead of Makefile.org as the prototype.
1090 *) Add some FIPS mode restrictions to GCM. Add internal IV generator.
1091 Update fips_gcmtest to use IV generator.
1094 *) Initial, experimental EVP support for AES-GCM. AAD can be input by
1095 setting output buffer to NULL. The *Final function must be
1096 called although it will not retrieve any additional data. The tag
1097 can be set or retrieved with a ctrl. The IV length is by default 12
1098 bytes (96 bits) but can be set to an alternative value. If the IV
1099 length exceeds the maximum IV length (currently 16 bytes) it cannot be
1103 *) New flag in ciphers: EVP_CIPH_FLAG_CUSTOM_CIPHER. This means the
1104 underlying do_cipher function handles all cipher semantics itself
1105 including padding and finalisation. This is useful if (for example)
1106 an ENGINE cipher handles block padding itself. The behaviour of
1107 do_cipher is subtly changed if this flag is set: the return value
1108 is the number of characters written to the output buffer (zero is
1109 no longer an error code) or a negative error code. Also if the
1110 input buffer is NULL and length 0 finalisation should be performed.
1113 *) If a candidate issuer certificate is already part of the constructed
1114 path ignore it: new debug notification X509_V_ERR_PATH_LOOP for this case.
1117 *) Improve forward-security support: add functions
1119 void SSL_CTX_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1120 void SSL_set_not_resumable_session_callback(SSL *ssl, int (*cb)(SSL *ssl, int is_forward_secure))
1122 for use by SSL/TLS servers; the callback function will be called whenever a
1123 new session is created, and gets to decide whether the session may be
1124 cached to make it resumable (return 0) or not (return 1). (As by the
1125 SSL/TLS protocol specifications, the session_id sent by the server will be
1126 empty to indicate that the session is not resumable; also, the server will
1127 not generate RFC 4507 (RFC 5077) session tickets.)
1129 A simple reasonable callback implementation is to return is_forward_secure.
1130 This parameter will be set to 1 or 0 depending on the ciphersuite selected
1131 by the SSL/TLS server library, indicating whether it can provide forward
1133 [Emilia Käsper <emilia.kasper@esat.kuleuven.be> (Google)]
1135 *) New -verify_name option in command line utilities to set verification
1139 *) Initial CMAC implementation. WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, API MAY CHANGE.
1140 Add CMAC pkey methods.
1143 *) Experimental renegotiation in s_server -www mode. If the client
1144 browses /reneg connection is renegotiated. If /renegcert it is
1145 renegotiated requesting a certificate.
1148 *) Add an "external" session cache for debugging purposes to s_server. This
1149 should help trace issues which normally are only apparent in deployed
1150 multi-process servers.
1153 *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where
1154 return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(),
1155 BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they
1156 can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the
1157 RAND_METHOD structure.
1160 *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of
1161 a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This
1162 is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h
1163 whose return value is often ignored.
1166 *) New -noct, -requestct, -requirect and -ctlogfile options for s_client.
1167 These allow SCTs (signed certificate timestamps) to be requested and
1168 validated when establishing a connection.
1169 [Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com>]
1171 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
1173 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
1175 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
1176 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
1179 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
1180 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
1181 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
1182 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
1183 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
1186 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
1190 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
1192 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
1193 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
1194 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
1197 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarily used by
1198 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
1199 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
1200 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
1201 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
1202 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
1204 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1208 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
1210 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
1211 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
1212 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
1213 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
1214 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
1215 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
1216 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
1217 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
1218 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
1219 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
1220 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
1221 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
1222 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
1223 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
1224 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
1225 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
1227 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1231 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
1233 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
1234 a short invalid encoding can cause allocation of large amounts of memory
1235 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
1237 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
1238 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
1239 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
1240 applications are not affected.
1242 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
1248 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
1249 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
1250 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
1252 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
1256 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
1257 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
1260 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
1264 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
1265 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
1268 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
1270 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
1271 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
1272 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
1275 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
1276 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
1277 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
1278 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
1279 will need to explicitly call either of:
1281 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1283 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
1285 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
1286 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
1287 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
1288 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
1289 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
1293 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
1295 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
1296 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
1297 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
1300 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
1305 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
1307 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
1309 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
1310 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
1311 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
1314 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
1315 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
1316 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
1317 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
1318 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
1319 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
1320 that of a valid user.
1324 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
1326 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
1327 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
1328 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
1329 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
1330 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
1331 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
1332 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
1333 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
1334 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
1335 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
1336 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
1338 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
1339 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
1340 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
1341 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
1342 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
1344 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
1348 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
1350 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
1351 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
1352 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
1354 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
1355 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
1356 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
1357 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
1358 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
1361 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
1362 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
1363 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
1364 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
1365 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
1366 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
1367 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
1368 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
1369 as command line arguments.
1371 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
1372 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
1373 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
1375 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
1379 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
1381 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
1382 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
1383 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
1384 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
1385 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
1387 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
1388 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
1389 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
1390 http://cachebleed.info.
1394 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
1395 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
1396 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
1397 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
1400 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
1401 *) DH small subgroups
1403 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
1404 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
1405 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
1406 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
1407 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
1408 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
1409 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
1410 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
1411 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
1412 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
1414 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
1415 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
1416 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
1417 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
1418 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
1420 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
1421 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
1422 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
1423 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
1425 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
1426 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
1428 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
1432 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
1434 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
1435 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
1436 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
1439 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
1440 and Sebastian Schinzel.
1444 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
1446 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
1448 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
1449 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
1450 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
1451 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
1452 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
1453 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
1454 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
1455 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
1456 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
1457 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
1458 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
1459 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
1461 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
1465 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
1467 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1468 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1469 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
1470 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
1471 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
1472 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
1473 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
1476 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
1480 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
1482 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
1483 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
1484 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
1485 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
1487 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
1492 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
1493 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
1494 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
1495 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
1498 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
1500 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
1502 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
1504 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
1506 During certificate verification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
1507 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
1508 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
1509 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
1510 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
1511 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
1513 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
1517 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
1519 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
1520 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
1524 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
1526 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
1528 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
1529 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
1532 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
1533 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
1534 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
1535 client authentication enabled.
1537 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
1541 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
1543 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
1544 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
1545 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
1548 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
1549 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
1550 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
1551 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
1552 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
1555 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
1556 independently by Hanno Böck.
1560 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
1562 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
1563 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
1564 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1566 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
1567 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
1568 servers are not affected.
1570 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1574 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
1576 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
1577 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
1578 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
1580 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
1584 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
1586 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
1587 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
1588 a double free of the ticket data.
1592 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
1593 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
1594 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
1597 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
1599 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
1601 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
1602 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
1603 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
1605 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
1608 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
1610 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
1612 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
1613 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
1614 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
1615 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
1616 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
1617 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
1618 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
1619 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
1621 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
1625 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
1627 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
1628 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
1629 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
1630 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
1631 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
1632 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
1633 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
1634 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
1637 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
1641 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
1643 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
1644 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
1645 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
1646 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1647 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1648 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1652 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
1654 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
1655 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
1656 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
1657 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
1658 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
1659 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
1660 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
1662 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
1666 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
1668 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
1669 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
1670 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
1672 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
1673 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
1674 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
1679 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
1681 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
1682 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
1683 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1685 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
1686 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
1687 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
1689 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1693 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
1695 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
1696 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
1697 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
1699 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
1700 (OpenSSL development team).
1704 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
1706 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
1707 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
1708 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
1712 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
1714 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
1715 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
1716 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
1717 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
1718 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
1719 SSL_client_methodv23)
1720 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
1721 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
1723 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
1724 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
1725 output may be predictable.
1727 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
1728 succeed on an unpatched platform:
1730 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
1734 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
1736 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
1737 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
1738 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
1739 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
1740 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
1741 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
1743 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
1748 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
1750 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
1751 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
1753 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
1757 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
1760 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
1762 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
1763 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
1764 So far those who have to target multiple platforms would compromise
1765 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
1766 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
1767 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
1770 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
1771 (other platforms pending).
1772 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
1774 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
1775 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
1778 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
1779 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
1780 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
1783 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
1784 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
1785 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
1786 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
1789 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
1790 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
1792 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
1793 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
1794 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
1795 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
1796 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
1798 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
1801 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
1802 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
1803 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
1804 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
1806 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
1808 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
1810 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
1811 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
1812 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
1815 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
1818 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
1819 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
1820 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
1823 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1824 this fixes a limitation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1827 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1828 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1831 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1832 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1833 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1834 algorithms and include tests cases.
1837 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
1839 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
1841 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
1842 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
1845 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
1846 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
1847 summary of the connection parameters.
1850 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
1851 of connection parameters.
1854 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
1855 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
1857 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
1858 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
1861 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
1864 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
1865 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
1868 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
1869 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
1872 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
1876 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
1877 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
1878 CRLs using the OCSP API.
1881 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
1884 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
1885 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
1888 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
1889 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
1890 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
1894 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
1895 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
1898 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
1902 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
1906 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
1907 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
1908 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
1909 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
1912 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
1913 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
1916 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
1917 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
1918 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
1922 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
1923 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
1924 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
1925 use the certificate.
1928 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
1931 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
1932 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
1933 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distinct stores for certificate chain
1934 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
1935 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returning
1936 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
1937 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
1939 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
1940 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
1944 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
1945 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
1946 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
1949 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
1950 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
1951 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
1952 supported signature algorithms.
1955 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
1958 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
1959 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
1960 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
1961 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
1962 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
1963 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
1964 certificate and specify the whole chain.
1967 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
1968 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
1969 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
1970 to have similar checks in it.
1972 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
1973 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
1974 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
1975 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
1976 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
1979 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
1980 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
1981 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
1982 shared signature algorithms.
1985 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
1986 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
1990 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
1991 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
1992 it couldn't be removed.
1995 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
1996 verification. New verify options supporting checking in openssl utility.
1999 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
2000 functions. Add manual page.
2001 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
2003 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
2004 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
2008 *) Fix OCSP checking.
2009 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
2011 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
2012 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
2013 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
2014 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
2018 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
2019 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
2022 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
2023 platform support for Linux and Android.
2026 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
2029 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
2030 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
2031 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
2032 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
2033 (often lower performance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
2036 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
2037 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
2038 the new parameter format automatically.
2041 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
2042 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
2045 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
2048 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
2049 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
2050 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
2051 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
2052 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
2055 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
2056 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
2057 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
2058 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
2059 to set list of supported curves.
2062 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
2063 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
2064 to print out received values.
2067 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
2068 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
2069 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
2072 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
2073 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
2076 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
2077 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
2080 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
2084 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
2086 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
2087 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
2088 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
2090 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
2092 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
2093 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
2095 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
2097 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
2098 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
2099 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
2100 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
2104 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
2105 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
2106 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
2107 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
2108 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
2109 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
2113 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
2114 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
2115 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
2116 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
2120 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
2123 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
2124 reporting this issue.
2128 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
2129 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
2130 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
2131 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
2132 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
2133 INRIA or reporting this issue.
2137 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
2138 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
2139 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
2140 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
2141 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
2142 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
2143 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
2148 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
2149 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
2151 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
2152 and can vary with the CTX.
2155 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
2157 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
2158 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
2159 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
2160 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
2161 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
2163 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
2165 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
2166 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
2168 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
2170 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
2171 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
2172 errors for some broken certificates.
2174 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
2176 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
2178 Re-encode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
2179 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
2181 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
2182 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
2183 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
2184 (negative or with leading zeroes).
2186 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
2187 of the OpenSSL core team.
2192 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
2193 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
2194 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
2195 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
2196 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
2197 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
2198 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
2199 the OpenSSL core team.
2203 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
2204 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
2205 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
2206 sanity and breaks all known clients.
2207 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
2209 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
2210 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
2211 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
2214 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
2215 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
2216 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2217 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
2218 announced in the initial ServerHello.
2220 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
2221 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
2222 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
2225 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
2227 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
2229 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
2230 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
2231 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
2232 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
2233 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
2234 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
2235 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
2237 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
2241 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
2243 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
2244 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
2245 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
2246 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
2247 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
2252 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
2254 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
2255 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
2256 configured to send them.
2258 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
2260 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
2261 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
2262 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
2264 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2266 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
2268 Re-encode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
2269 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
2270 DigestInfo structures.
2272 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
2276 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
2278 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
2279 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
2280 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
2282 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
2283 Group for discovering this issue.
2287 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
2288 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
2289 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
2290 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
2291 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
2293 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
2294 researching this issue.
2298 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
2299 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
2300 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
2301 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
2303 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
2308 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
2309 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2310 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2314 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
2315 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
2316 Denial of Service attack.
2317 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
2321 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
2322 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
2323 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
2324 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
2329 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
2330 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
2331 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
2333 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
2338 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
2339 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
2340 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
2341 Denial of Service attack.
2343 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
2344 discovering and researching this issue.
2348 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
2349 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
2350 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
2351 output to the attacker.
2353 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
2355 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
2357 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
2358 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
2359 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
2362 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
2364 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
2365 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
2366 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
2368 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
2369 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
2370 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
2372 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
2373 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
2376 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
2378 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
2380 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
2381 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
2382 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
2383 code on a vulnerable client or server.
2385 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
2386 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
2388 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
2389 are subject to a denial of service attack.
2391 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
2392 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
2393 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
2395 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
2397 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2399 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
2400 in i2d_ECPrivateKey.
2401 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2403 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
2404 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
2406 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
2408 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
2409 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
2412 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
2413 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
2414 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
2415 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
2417 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
2418 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
2419 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
2420 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
2422 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
2423 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
2424 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
2426 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
2428 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
2429 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
2430 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
2431 is at least 512 bytes long.
2433 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
2435 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
2437 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
2438 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
2439 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
2442 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
2443 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
2444 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
2447 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
2448 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
2449 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
2450 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
2451 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
2452 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
2453 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
2455 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
2457 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
2458 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
2459 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2461 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
2463 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
2465 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
2466 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
2467 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
2469 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2470 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2471 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
2472 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
2474 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
2476 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
2477 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
2478 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
2479 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
2480 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
2484 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
2485 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
2488 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
2489 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2491 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
2492 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
2493 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
2494 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
2495 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
2497 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
2500 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
2504 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
2506 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
2507 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
2509 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
2510 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
2514 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
2515 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
2518 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
2522 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
2524 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
2525 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
2526 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
2527 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disablng
2528 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
2529 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
2530 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
2531 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
2532 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
2533 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
2536 *) In order to ensure interoperabilty SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
2537 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
2538 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
2539 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
2540 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
2541 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
2545 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
2547 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
2548 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
2549 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
2551 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
2552 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
2554 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
2556 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
2559 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
2560 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
2562 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
2563 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
2564 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
2565 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
2566 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
2567 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
2568 Most broken servers should now work.
2569 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
2570 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
2573 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
2576 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
2578 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
2579 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
2582 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
2583 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
2584 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
2585 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
2586 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
2589 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
2590 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
2591 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum permitted
2592 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
2593 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
2596 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
2597 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2599 *) Add support for SCTP.
2600 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2602 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2603 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2605 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
2607 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
2608 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
2609 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
2610 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
2611 - s390x: z196 support;
2612 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
2616 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
2617 (removal of unnecessary code)
2618 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
2620 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
2623 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
2626 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
2627 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
2628 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
2630 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
2632 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
2633 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
2634 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
2635 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
2636 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
2638 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
2639 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
2640 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
2642 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
2643 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
2644 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
2646 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
2647 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
2649 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2651 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
2652 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
2653 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
2656 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
2657 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
2661 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
2662 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
2663 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
2666 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
2667 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
2668 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
2669 the appropriate parameters.
2672 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
2673 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
2674 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
2675 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
2676 against a number of sample certificates.
2679 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
2680 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
2682 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
2683 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
2685 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
2686 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
2690 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
2694 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
2695 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
2696 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
2697 password based CMS).
2700 *) Session-handling fixes:
2701 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
2702 but also support Session Tickets.
2703 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
2704 presented a ticket with an expired session.
2705 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
2706 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
2707 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
2708 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2710 *) Fix PSK session representation.
2713 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
2715 This work was sponsored by Intel.
2718 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
2719 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
2720 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
2721 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to include GCM and
2722 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
2725 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
2726 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
2729 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
2730 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
2731 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
2734 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
2735 as unset and return the appropriate default but do *not* set the default.
2736 This means we can return the appropriate method in applications that
2737 switch between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
2740 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
2741 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
2742 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
2745 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
2746 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
2748 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
2751 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
2752 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
2755 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2758 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
2759 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
2762 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
2763 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
2766 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
2769 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
2770 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
2771 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
2774 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2777 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2780 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
2781 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
2784 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
2785 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
2786 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
2789 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
2792 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
2796 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
2797 FIPS modules versions.
2800 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
2801 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
2802 until after the certificate request message is received.
2805 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
2806 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
2807 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
2808 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
2811 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
2812 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
2813 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
2814 support yet and no support for client certificates.
2817 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
2818 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
2819 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
2820 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
2821 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
2822 and version checking.
2825 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
2826 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
2827 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
2828 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
2832 [Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
2834 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
2837 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
2838 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
2839 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2841 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
2842 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
2843 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
2846 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
2847 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
2849 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
2850 a few changes are required:
2852 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
2853 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
2854 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
2855 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
2856 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
2859 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
2861 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
2862 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
2863 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
2864 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
2865 old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
2866 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
2867 an MMA defence is not necessary.
2868 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
2869 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
2872 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
2873 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
2874 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
2877 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
2879 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
2880 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
2881 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
2882 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
2885 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
2887 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
2888 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
2889 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
2890 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
2891 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
2892 paper describing this attack can be found at:
2893 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
2894 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2895 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2896 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
2897 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
2898 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
2899 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
2901 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
2903 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2905 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
2906 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
2907 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
2908 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2910 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
2911 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
2913 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
2914 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
2915 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
2916 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
2918 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2919 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2921 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
2922 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2924 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
2925 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2927 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
2928 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
2929 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2931 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
2932 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
2933 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
2935 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
2936 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
2937 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
2938 the last update always remained unused).
2939 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2941 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
2942 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
2944 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
2946 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
2947 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
2948 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
2950 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
2951 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
2952 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2954 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
2957 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
2958 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
2959 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
2962 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
2963 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
2965 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
2967 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
2969 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
2971 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
2972 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2974 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
2975 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
2979 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
2981 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
2982 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
2983 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
2986 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
2987 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
2988 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
2991 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
2993 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
2994 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
2995 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
2998 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
3002 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
3004 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
3006 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
3008 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
3010 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
3011 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
3012 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
3015 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
3018 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
3019 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
3020 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
3022 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
3023 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
3024 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
3027 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
3028 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
3031 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
3032 some responders need this.
3035 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
3037 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3039 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
3040 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
3041 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
3044 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
3047 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
3048 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
3049 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
3050 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
3051 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
3052 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
3053 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
3054 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
3057 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
3058 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
3059 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
3060 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3062 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
3063 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
3065 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
3069 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
3070 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
3071 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
3072 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
3073 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
3074 attempting to work them out.
3077 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
3078 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
3079 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
3080 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
3083 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
3084 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
3085 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
3086 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
3087 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
3090 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
3091 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
3098 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
3100 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
3104 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
3105 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3107 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
3108 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
3110 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
3111 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
3112 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
3113 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
3114 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
3117 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
3118 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
3119 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
3122 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
3123 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
3126 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
3127 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
3129 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
3130 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
3133 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
3136 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
3137 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
3138 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
3142 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
3143 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
3144 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
3145 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
3146 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
3147 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
3150 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
3151 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
3153 This work was sponsored by Google.
3156 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
3157 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
3158 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
3159 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
3160 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
3161 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications won't
3162 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
3165 This work was sponsored by Google.
3168 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
3170 This work was sponsored by Google.
3173 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
3174 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
3175 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
3176 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
3178 This work was sponsored by Google.
3181 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
3182 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
3183 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
3184 CRL functionality in future.
3186 This work was sponsored by Google.
3189 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
3191 This work was sponsored by Google.
3194 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
3195 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
3197 This work was sponsored by Google.
3200 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
3201 and URI types are currently supported.
3203 This work was sponsored by Google.
3206 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
3207 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
3208 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
3209 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
3210 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
3211 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
3212 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
3213 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
3215 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
3216 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
3217 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
3219 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
3220 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
3221 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
3222 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
3224 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
3225 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
3226 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
3227 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
3228 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
3229 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
3230 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
3231 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
3233 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
3235 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
3236 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
3237 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
3239 This work was sponsored by Google.
3242 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
3245 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3246 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
3247 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
3250 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
3251 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
3254 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
3255 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
3258 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
3259 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
3260 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
3261 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
3262 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
3263 content types and variants.
3266 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
3269 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
3270 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
3271 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
3272 files from the associated perl scripts.
3275 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
3276 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
3277 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3279 *) s390x assembler pack.
3282 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
3286 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
3287 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
3288 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
3289 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
3290 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
3291 to use. For example, specify an option
3293 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
3295 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
3296 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
3297 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
3298 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
3299 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
3300 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
3302 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
3303 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
3304 an interal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
3305 return non-zero for success.
3307 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
3310 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
3311 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
3315 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
3318 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
3319 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
3320 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
3321 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
3322 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
3323 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
3324 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
3325 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
3326 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
3328 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
3329 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
3330 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
3331 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
3332 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
3333 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
3335 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
3336 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
3337 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
3338 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
3339 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
3340 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
3344 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
3347 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
3349 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
3350 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
3351 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
3354 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
3355 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
3358 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
3359 protection in servers so again support should be possible
3360 with no application modification.
3362 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
3363 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
3365 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
3366 or server extensions to be examined.
3368 This work was sponsored by Google.
3371 *) Final changes to avoid use of pointer pointer casts in OpenSSL.
3372 OpenSSL should now compile cleanly on gcc 4.2
3373 [Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>, Steve Henson]
3375 *) Update SSL library to use new EVP_PKEY MAC API. Include generic MAC
3376 support including streaming MAC support: this is required for GOST
3377 ciphersuite support.
3378 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>, Steve Henson]
3380 *) Add option -stream to use PKCS#7 streaming in smime utility. New
3381 function i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream() and PEM_write_PKCS7_bio_stream()
3382 to output in BER and PEM format.
3385 *) Experimental support for use of HMAC via EVP_PKEY interface. This
3386 allows HMAC to be handled via the EVP_DigestSign*() interface. The
3387 EVP_PKEY "key" in this case is the HMAC key, potentially allowing
3388 ENGINE support for HMAC keys which are unextractable. New -mac and
3389 -macopt options to dgst utility.
3392 *) New option -sigopt to dgst utility. Update dgst to use
3393 EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}*. These two changes make it possible to use
3394 alternative signing parameters such as X9.31 or PSS in the dgst
3398 *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
3399 the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
3400 ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
3401 removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
3402 the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
3403 that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
3404 in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
3405 than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
3408 This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
3409 the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
3410 order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
3411 most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
3413 Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
3414 funcionality) such that between otherwise identical
3415 cihpersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
3419 *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
3420 arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
3421 to process the rule string. Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
3422 (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
3423 remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
3424 This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
3425 in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
3426 that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
3427 [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
3429 *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
3430 processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
3431 "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
3432 "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
3433 (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
3434 away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
3435 change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
3436 affect applications.) This give us more bits for each of these
3437 categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
3438 AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
3439 and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
3442 Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
3443 0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
3444 out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
3446 With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
3447 so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
3451 *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
3452 Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
3453 larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
3456 *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
3457 it yet and it is largely untested.
3460 *) Add support for the ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
3463 *) Initial incomplete changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL
3464 some compilers (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use. Safestack is
3465 reimplemented. Update ASN1 to avoid use of legacy functions.
3468 *) Win32/64 targets are linked with Winsock2.
3471 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
3472 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
3473 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
3474 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
3477 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
3478 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
3479 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
3480 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
3481 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
3484 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
3485 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
3488 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
3489 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
3490 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
3491 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
3494 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
3495 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
3496 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
3497 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
3500 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
3501 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
3504 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
3505 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
3506 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
3507 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
3510 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
3511 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
3512 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
3515 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
3519 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
3520 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
3523 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
3524 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
3525 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
3529 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
3530 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
3531 to free up any added signature OIDs.
3534 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
3535 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
3536 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
3537 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
3540 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
3541 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
3542 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
3543 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
3544 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
3545 the array representation useful in a more general context.
3548 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
3549 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
3550 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
3551 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
3552 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
3554 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
3555 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
3556 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
3557 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
3558 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
3561 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
3562 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
3563 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
3564 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case:
3566 kECDHr - ECDH cert, signed with RSA
3567 kECDHe - ECDH cert, signed with ECDSA
3568 kECDH - ECDH cert (signed with either RSA or ECDSA)
3569 kEECDH - ephemeral ECDH
3570 ECDH - ECDH cert or ephemeral ECDH
3576 AECDH - anonymous ECDH
3577 EECDH - non-anonymous ephemeral ECDH (equivalent to "kEECDH:-AECDH")
3581 *) Add additional S/MIME capabilities for AES and GOST ciphers if supported.
3582 Use correct micalg parameters depending on digest(s) in signed message.
3585 *) Add engine support for EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. Add functions to process
3586 an ENGINE asn1 method. Support ENGINE lookups in the ASN1 code.
3589 *) Initial engine support for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. New functions to permit
3590 an engine to register a method. Add ENGINE lookups for methods and
3591 functional reference processing.
3594 *) New functions EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify)*. These are enchance versions of
3595 EVP_{Sign,Verify}* which allow an application to customise the signature
3599 *) New -resign option to smime utility. This adds one or more signers
3600 to an existing PKCS#7 signedData structure. Also -md option to use an
3601 alternative message digest algorithm for signing.
3604 *) Tidy up PKCS#7 routines and add new functions to make it easier to
3605 create PKCS7 structures containing multiple signers. Update smime
3606 application to support multiple signers.
3609 *) New -macalg option to pkcs12 utility to allow setting of an alternative
3613 *) Initial support for PKCS#5 v2.0 PRFs other than default SHA1 HMAC.
3614 Reorganize PBE internals to lookup from a static table using NIDs,
3615 add support for HMAC PBE OID translation. Add a EVP_CIPHER ctrl:
3616 EVP_CTRL_PBE_PRF_NID this allows a cipher to specify an alternative
3617 PRF which will be automatically used with PBES2.
3620 *) Replace the algorithm specific calls to generate keys in "req" with the
3624 *) Update PKCS#7 enveloped data routines to use new API. This is now
3625 supported by any public key method supporting the encrypt operation. A
3626 ctrl is added to allow the public key algorithm to examine or modify
3627 the PKCS#7 RecipientInfo structure if it needs to: for RSA this is
3631 *) Add a ctrl to asn1 method to allow a public key algorithm to express
3632 a default digest type to use. In most cases this will be SHA1 but some
3633 algorithms (such as GOST) need to specify an alternative digest. The
3634 return value indicates how strong the preference is 1 means optional and
3635 2 is mandatory (that is it is the only supported type). Modify
3636 ASN1_item_sign() to accept a NULL digest argument to indicate it should
3637 use the default md. Update openssl utilities to use the default digest
3638 type for signing if it is not explicitly indicated.
3641 *) Use OID cross reference table in ASN1_sign() and ASN1_verify(). New
3642 EVP_MD flag EVP_MD_FLAG_PKEY_METHOD_SIGNATURE. This uses the relevant
3643 signing method from the key type. This effectively removes the link
3644 between digests and public key types.
3647 *) Add an OID cross reference table and utility functions. Its purpose is to
3648 translate between signature OIDs such as SHA1WithrsaEncryption and SHA1,
3649 rsaEncryption. This will allow some of the algorithm specific hackery
3650 needed to use the correct OID to be removed.
3653 *) Remove algorithm specific dependencies when setting PKCS7_SIGNER_INFO
3654 structures for PKCS7_sign(). They are now set up by the relevant public
3658 *) Add provisional EC pkey method with support for ECDSA and ECDH.
3661 *) Add support for key derivation (agreement) in the API, DH method and
3665 *) Add DSA pkey method and DH pkey methods, extend DH ASN1 method to support
3666 public and private key formats. As a side effect these add additional
3667 command line functionality not previously available: DSA signatures can be
3668 generated and verified using pkeyutl and DH key support and generation in
3673 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
3675 *) New make target "install_html_docs" installs HTML renditions of the
3677 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
3679 *) New utility "genpkey" this is analogous to "genrsa" etc except it can
3680 generate keys for any algorithm. Extend and update EVP_PKEY_METHOD to
3681 support key and parameter generation and add initial key generation
3682 functionality for RSA.
3685 *) Add functions for main EVP_PKEY_method operations. The undocumented
3686 functions EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt} have been renamed to
3687 EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt}_old.
3690 *) Initial definitions for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. This will be a high level public
3691 key API, doesn't do much yet.
3694 *) New function EVP_PKEY_asn1_get0_info() to retrieve information about
3695 public key algorithms. New option to openssl utility:
3696 "list-public-key-algorithms" to print out info.
3699 *) Implement the Supported Elliptic Curves Extension for
3700 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
3703 *) Don't free up OIDs in OBJ_cleanup() if they are in use by EVP_MD or
3704 EVP_CIPHER structures to avoid later problems in EVP_cleanup().
3707 *) New utilities pkey and pkeyparam. These are similar to algorithm specific
3708 utilities such as rsa, dsa, dsaparam etc except they process any key
3712 *) Transfer public key printing routines to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. New
3713 functions EVP_PKEY_print_public(), EVP_PKEY_print_private(),
3714 EVP_PKEY_print_param() to print public key data from an EVP_PKEY
3718 *) Initial support for pluggable public key ASN1.
3719 De-spaghettify the public key ASN1 handling. Move public and private
3720 key ASN1 handling to a new EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD structure. Relocate
3721 algorithm specific handling to a single module within the relevant
3722 algorithm directory. Add functions to allow (near) opaque processing
3723 of public and private key structures.
3726 *) Implement the Supported Point Formats Extension for
3727 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
3730 *) Add initial support for RFC 4279 PSK TLS ciphersuites. Add members
3731 for the psk identity [hint] and the psk callback functions to the
3732 SSL_SESSION, SSL and SSL_CTX structure.
3735 PSK-RC4-SHA, PSK-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA, PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA,
3739 SSL_CTX_use_psk_identity_hint
3740 SSL_get_psk_identity_hint
3741 SSL_get_psk_identity
3742 SSL_use_psk_identity_hint
3744 [Mika Kousa and Pasi Eronen of Nokia Corporation]
3746 *) Add RFC 3161 compliant time stamp request creation, response generation
3747 and response verification functionality.
3748 [Zoltán Glózik <zglozik@opentsa.org>, The OpenTSA Project]
3750 *) Add initial support for TLS extensions, specifically for the server_name
3751 extension so far. The SSL_SESSION, SSL_CTX, and SSL data structures now
3752 have new members for a host name. The SSL data structure has an
3753 additional member SSL_CTX *initial_ctx so that new sessions can be
3754 stored in that context to allow for session resumption, even after the
3755 SSL has been switched to a new SSL_CTX in reaction to a client's
3756 server_name extension.
3758 New functions (subject to change):
3760 SSL_get_servername()
3761 SSL_get_servername_type()
3764 New CTRL codes and macros (subject to change):
3766 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_CB
3767 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback()
3768 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_ARG
3769 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg()
3770 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME - SSL_set_tlsext_host_name()
3772 openssl s_client has a new '-servername ...' option.
3774 openssl s_server has new options '-servername_host ...', '-cert2 ...',
3775 '-key2 ...', '-servername_fatal' (subject to change). This allows
3776 testing the HostName extension for a specific single host name ('-cert'
3777 and '-key' remain fallbacks for handshakes without HostName
3778 negotiation). If the unrecognized_name alert has to be sent, this by
3779 default is a warning; it becomes fatal with the '-servername_fatal'
3782 [Peter Sylvester, Remy Allais, Christophe Renou]
3784 *) Whirlpool hash implementation is added.
3787 *) BIGNUM code on 64-bit SPARCv9 targets is switched from bn(64,64) to
3788 bn(64,32). Because of instruction set limitations it doesn't have
3789 any negative impact on performance. This was done mostly in order
3790 to make it possible to share assembler modules, such as bn_mul_mont
3791 implementations, between 32- and 64-bit builds without hassle.
3794 *) Move code previously exiled into file crypto/ec/ec2_smpt.c
3795 to ec2_smpl.c, and no longer require the OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP
3799 *) New candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation, bn_mul_mont,
3800 dedicated Montgomery multiplication procedure, is introduced.
3801 BN_MONT_CTX is modified to allow bn_mul_mont to reach for higher
3802 "64-bit" performance on certain 32-bit targets.
3805 *) New option SSL_OP_NO_COMP to disable use of compression selectively
3806 in SSL structures. New SSL ctrl to set maximum send fragment size.
3807 Save memory by seeting the I/O buffer sizes dynamically instead of
3808 using the maximum available value.
3811 *) New option -V for 'openssl ciphers'. This prints the ciphersuite code
3812 in addition to the text details.
3815 *) Very, very preliminary EXPERIMENTAL support for printing of general
3816 ASN1 structures. This currently produces rather ugly output and doesn't
3817 handle several customised structures at all.
3820 *) Integrated support for PVK file format and some related formats such
3821 as MS PUBLICKEYBLOB and PRIVATEKEYBLOB. Command line switches to support
3822 these in the 'rsa' and 'dsa' utilities.
3825 *) Support for PKCS#1 RSAPublicKey format on rsa utility command line.
3828 *) Remove the ancient ASN1_METHOD code. This was only ever used in one
3829 place for the (very old) "NETSCAPE" format certificates which are now
3830 handled using new ASN1 code equivalents.
3833 *) Let the TLSv1_method() etc. functions return a 'const' SSL_METHOD
3834 pointer and make the SSL_METHOD parameter in SSL_CTX_new,
3835 SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version and SSL_set_ssl_method 'const'.
3838 *) Modify CRL distribution points extension code to print out previously
3839 unsupported fields. Enhance extension setting code to allow setting of
3843 *) Add print and set support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension.
3846 *) Change 'Configure' script to enable Camellia by default.
3849 Changes between 0.9.8m and 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]
3851 *) When rejecting SSL/TLS records due to an incorrect version number, never
3852 update s->server with a new major version number. As of
3853 - OpenSSL 0.9.8m if 'short' is a 16-bit type,
3854 - OpenSSL 0.9.8f if 'short' is longer than 16 bits,
3855 the previous behavior could result in a read attempt at NULL when
3856 receiving specific incorrect SSL/TLS records once record payload
3857 protection is active. (CVE-2010-0740)
3858 [Bodo Moeller, Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org>]
3860 *) Fix for CVE-2010-0433 where some kerberos enabled versions of OpenSSL
3861 could be crashed if the relevant tables were not present (e.g. chrooted).
3862 [Tomas Hoger <thoger@redhat.com>]
3864 Changes between 0.9.8l and 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]
3866 *) Always check bn_wexpend() return values for failure. (CVE-2009-3245)
3867 [Martin Olsson, Neel Mehta]
3869 *) Fix X509_STORE locking: Every 'objs' access requires a lock (to
3870 accommodate for stack sorting, always a write lock!).
3873 *) On some versions of WIN32 Heap32Next is very slow. This can cause
3874 excessive delays in the RAND_poll(): over a minute. As a workaround
3875 include a time check in the inner Heap32Next loop too.
3878 *) The code that handled flushing of data in SSL/TLS originally used the
3879 BIO_CTRL_INFO ctrl to see if any data was pending first. This caused
3880 the problem outlined in PR#1949. The fix suggested there however can
3881 trigger problems with buggy BIO_CTRL_WPENDING (e.g. some versions
3882 of Apache). So instead simplify the code to flush unconditionally.
3883 This should be fine since flushing with no data to flush is a no op.
3886 *) Handle TLS versions 2.0 and later properly and correctly use the
3887 highest version of TLS/SSL supported. Although TLS >= 2.0 is some way
3888 off ancient servers have a habit of sticking around for a while...
3891 *) Modify compression code so it frees up structures without using the
3892 ex_data callbacks. This works around a problem where some applications
3893 call CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data() before application exit (e.g. when
3894 restarting) then use compression (e.g. SSL with compression) later.
3895 This results in significant per-connection memory leaks and
3896 has caused some security issues including CVE-2008-1678 and
3900 *) Constify crypto/cast (i.e., <openssl/cast.h>): a CAST_KEY doesn't
3901 change when encrypting or decrypting.
3904 *) Add option SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT which will allow clients to
3905 connect and renegotiate with servers which do not support RI.
3906 Until RI is more widely deployed this option is enabled by default.
3909 *) Add "missing" ssl ctrls to clear options and mode.
3912 *) If client attempts to renegotiate and doesn't support RI respond with
3913 a no_renegotiation alert as required by RFC5746. Some renegotiating
3914 TLS clients will continue a connection gracefully when they receive
3915 the alert. Unfortunately OpenSSL mishandled this alert and would hang
3916 waiting for a server hello which it will never receive. Now we treat a
3917 received no_renegotiation alert as a fatal error. This is because
3918 applications requesting a renegotiation might well expect it to succeed
3919 and would have no code in place to handle the server denying it so the
3920 only safe thing to do is to terminate the connection.
3923 *) Add ctrl macro SSL_get_secure_renegotiation_support() which returns 1 if
3924 peer supports secure renegotiation and 0 otherwise. Print out peer
3925 renegotiation support in s_client/s_server.
3928 *) Replace the highly broken and deprecated SPKAC certification method with
3929 the updated NID creation version. This should correctly handle UTF8.
3932 *) Implement RFC5746. Re-enable renegotiation but require the extension
3933 as needed. Unfortunately, SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION
3934 turns out to be a bad idea. It has been replaced by
3935 SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION which can be set with
3936 SSL_CTX_set_options(). This is really not recommended unless you
3937 know what you are doing.
3938 [Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>, Ben Laurie, Steve Henson]
3940 *) Fixes to stateless session resumption handling. Use initial_ctx when
3941 issuing and attempting to decrypt tickets in case it has changed during
3942 servername handling. Use a non-zero length session ID when attempting
3943 stateless session resumption: this makes it possible to determine if
3944 a resumption has occurred immediately after receiving server hello
3945 (several places in OpenSSL subtly assume this) instead of later in
3949 *) The functions ENGINE_ctrl(), OPENSSL_isservice(),
3950 CMS_get1_RecipientRequest() and RAND_bytes() can return <=0 on error
3951 fixes for a few places where the return code is not checked
3953 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3955 *) Add --strict-warnings option to Configure script to include devteam
3956 warnings in other configurations.
3959 *) Add support for --libdir option and LIBDIR variable in makefiles. This
3960 makes it possible to install openssl libraries in locations which
3961 have names other than "lib", for example "/usr/lib64" which some
3963 [Steve Henson, based on patch from Jeremy Utley]
3965 *) Don't allow the use of leading 0x80 in OIDs. This is a violation of
3966 X690 8.9.12 and can produce some misleading textual output of OIDs.
3967 [Steve Henson, reported by Dan Kaminsky]
3969 *) Delete MD2 from algorithm tables. This follows the recommendation in
3970 several standards that it is not used in new applications due to
3971 several cryptographic weaknesses. For binary compatibility reasons
3972 the MD2 API is still compiled in by default.
3975 *) Add compression id to {d2i,i2d}_SSL_SESSION so it is correctly saved
3979 *) Rename uni2asc and asc2uni functions to OPENSSL_uni2asc and
3980 OPENSSL_asc2uni conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name
3982 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3984 *) Fix the server certificate chain building code to use X509_verify_cert(),
3985 it used to have an ad-hoc builder which was unable to cope with anything
3986 other than a simple chain.
3987 [David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Steve Henson]
3989 *) Don't check self signed certificate signatures in X509_verify_cert()
3990 by default (a flag can override this): it just wastes time without
3991 adding any security. As a useful side effect self signed root CAs
3992 with non-FIPS digests are now usable in FIPS mode.
3995 *) In dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message() the check if the current message
3996 is already buffered was missing. For every new message was memory
3997 allocated, allowing an attacker to perform an denial of service attack
3998 with sending out of seq handshake messages until there is no memory
3999 left. Additionally every future messege was buffered, even if the
4000 sequence number made no sense and would be part of another handshake.
4001 So only messages with sequence numbers less than 10 in advance will be
4002 buffered. (CVE-2009-1378)
4003 [Robin Seggelmann, discovered by Daniel Mentz]
4005 *) Records are buffered if they arrive with a future epoch to be
4006 processed after finishing the corresponding handshake. There is
4007 currently no limitation to this buffer allowing an attacker to perform
4008 a DOS attack with sending records with future epochs until there is no
4009 memory left. This patch adds the pqueue_size() function to determine
4010 the size of a buffer and limits the record buffer to 100 entries.
4012 [Robin Seggelmann, discovered by Daniel Mentz]
4014 *) Keep a copy of frag->msg_header.frag_len so it can be used after the
4015 parent structure is freed. (CVE-2009-1379)
4018 *) Handle non-blocking I/O properly in SSL_shutdown() call.
4019 [Darryl Miles <darryl-mailinglists@netbauds.net>]
4022 [Ilya O. <vrghost@gmail.com>]
4024 Changes between 0.9.8k and 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]
4026 *) Disable renegotiation completely - this fixes a severe security
4027 problem (CVE-2009-3555) at the cost of breaking all
4028 renegotiation. Renegotiation can be re-enabled by setting
4029 SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION in s3->flags at
4030 run-time. This is really not recommended unless you know what
4034 Changes between 0.9.8j and 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]
4036 *) Don't set val to NULL when freeing up structures, it is freed up by
4037 underlying code. If sizeof(void *) > sizeof(long) this can result in
4038 zeroing past the valid field. (CVE-2009-0789)
4039 [Paolo Ganci <Paolo.Ganci@AdNovum.CH>]
4041 *) Fix bug where return value of CMS_SignerInfo_verify_content() was not
4042 checked correctly. This would allow some invalid signed attributes to
4043 appear to verify correctly. (CVE-2009-0591)
4044 [Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com>]
4046 *) Reject UniversalString and BMPString types with invalid lengths. This
4047 prevents a crash in ASN1_STRING_print_ex() which assumes the strings have
4048 a legal length. (CVE-2009-0590)
4051 *) Set S/MIME signing as the default purpose rather than setting it
4052 unconditionally. This allows applications to override it at the store
4056 *) Permit restricted recursion of ASN1 strings. This is needed in practice
4057 to handle some structures.
4060 *) Improve efficiency of mem_gets: don't search whole buffer each time
4062 [Jeremy Shapiro <jnshapir@us.ibm.com>]
4064 *) New -hex option for openssl rand.
4067 *) Print out UTF8String and NumericString when parsing ASN1.
4070 *) Support NumericString type for name components.
4073 *) Allow CC in the environment to override the automatically chosen
4074 compiler. Note that nothing is done to ensure flags work with the
4078 Changes between 0.9.8i and 0.9.8j [07 Jan 2009]
4080 *) Properly check EVP_VerifyFinal() and similar return values
4082 [Ben Laurie, Bodo Moeller, Google Security Team]
4084 *) Enable TLS extensions by default.
4087 *) Allow the CHIL engine to be loaded, whether the application is
4088 multithreaded or not. (This does not release the developer from the
4089 obligation to set up the dynamic locking callbacks.)
4090 [Sander Temme <sander@temme.net>]
4092 *) Use correct exit code if there is an error in dgst command.
4093 [Steve Henson; problem pointed out by Roland Dirlewanger]
4095 *) Tweak Configure so that you need to say "experimental-jpake" to enable
4096 JPAKE, and need to use -DOPENSSL_EXPERIMENTAL_JPAKE in applications.
4099 *) Add experimental JPAKE support, including demo authentication in
4100 s_client and s_server.
4103 *) Set the comparison function in v3_addr_canonize().
4104 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
4106 *) Add support for XMPP STARTTLS in s_client.
4107 [Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>]
4109 *) Change the server-side SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG behavior
4110 to ensure that even with this option, only ciphersuites in the
4111 server's preference list will be accepted. (Note that the option
4112 applies only when resuming a session, so the earlier behavior was
4113 just about the algorithm choice for symmetric cryptography.)
4116 Changes between 0.9.8h and 0.9.8i [15 Sep 2008]
4118 *) Fix NULL pointer dereference if a DTLS server received
4119 ChangeCipherSpec as first record (CVE-2009-1386).
4122 *) Fix a state transition in s3_srvr.c and d1_srvr.c
4123 (was using SSL3_ST_CW_CLNT_HELLO_B, should be ..._ST_SW_SRVR_...).
4126 *) The fix in 0.9.8c that supposedly got rid of unsafe
4127 double-checked locking was incomplete for RSA blinding,
4128 addressing just one layer of what turns out to have been
4129 doubly unsafe triple-checked locking.
4131 So now fix this for real by retiring the MONT_HELPER macro
4132 in crypto/rsa/rsa_eay.c.
4134 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Marius Schilder]
4136 *) Various precautionary measures:
4138 - Avoid size_t integer overflow in HASH_UPDATE (md32_common.h).
4140 - Avoid a buffer overflow in d2i_SSL_SESSION() (ssl_asn1.c).
4141 (NB: This would require knowledge of the secret session ticket key
4142 to exploit, in which case you'd be SOL either way.)
4144 - Change bn_nist.c so that it will properly handle input BIGNUMs
4145 outside the expected range.
4147 - Enforce the 'num' check in BN_div() (bn_div.c) for non-BN_DEBUG
4150 [Neel Mehta, Bodo Moeller]
4152 *) Allow engines to be "soft loaded" - i.e. optionally don't die if
4153 the load fails. Useful for distros.
4154 [Ben Laurie and the FreeBSD team]
4156 *) Add support for Local Machine Keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
4159 *) Fix BN_GF2m_mod_arr() top-bit cleanup code.
4162 *) Expand ENGINE to support engine supplied SSL client certificate functions.
4164 This work was sponsored by Logica.
4167 *) Add CryptoAPI ENGINE to support use of RSA and DSA keys held in Windows
4168 keystores. Support for SSL/TLS client authentication too.
4169 Not compiled unless enable-capieng specified to Configure.
4171 This work was sponsored by Logica.
4174 *) Fix bug in X509_ATTRIBUTE creation: don't set attribute using
4175 ASN1_TYPE_set1 if MBSTRING flag set. This bug would crash certain
4176 attribute creation routines such as certificate requests and PKCS#12
4180 Changes between 0.9.8g and 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]
4182 *) Fix flaw if 'Server Key exchange message' is omitted from a TLS
4183 handshake which could lead to a cilent crash as found using the
4184 Codenomicon TLS test suite (CVE-2008-1672)
4185 [Steve Henson, Mark Cox]
4187 *) Fix double free in TLS server name extensions which could lead to
4188 a remote crash found by Codenomicon TLS test suite (CVE-2008-0891)
4191 *) Clear error queue in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file()
4193 Clear the error queue to ensure that error entries left from
4194 older function calls do not interfere with the correct operation.
4195 [Lutz Jaenicke, Erik de Castro Lopo]
4197 *) Remove root CA certificates of commercial CAs:
4199 The OpenSSL project does not recommend any specific CA and does not
4200 have any policy with respect to including or excluding any CA.
4201 Therefore it does not make any sense to ship an arbitrary selection
4202 of root CA certificates with the OpenSSL software.
4205 *) RSA OAEP patches to fix two separate invalid memory reads.
4206 The first one involves inputs when 'lzero' is greater than
4207 'SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH' (it would read about SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH bytes
4208 before the beginning of from). The second one involves inputs where
4209 the 'db' section contains nothing but zeroes (there is a one-byte
4210 invalid read after the end of 'db').
4211 [Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com>]
4213 *) Partial backport from 0.9.9-dev:
4215 Introduce bn_mul_mont (dedicated Montgomery multiplication
4216 procedure) as a candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation.
4217 While 0.9.9-dev uses assembler for various architectures, only
4218 x86_64 is available by default here in the 0.9.8 branch, and
4219 32-bit x86 is available through a compile-time setting.
4221 To try the 32-bit x86 assembler implementation, use Configure
4222 option "enable-montasm" (which exists only for this backport).
4224 As "enable-montasm" for 32-bit x86 disclaims code stability
4225 anyway, in this constellation we activate additional code
4226 backported from 0.9.9-dev for further performance improvements,
4227 namely BN_from_montgomery_word. (To enable this otherwise,
4228 e.g. x86_64, try "-DMONT_FROM_WORD___NON_DEFAULT_0_9_8_BUILD".)
4230 [Andy Polyakov (backport partially by Bodo Moeller)]
4232 *) Add TLS session ticket callback. This allows an application to set
4233 TLS ticket cipher and HMAC keys rather than relying on hardcoded fixed
4234 values. This is useful for key rollover for example where several key
4235 sets may exist with different names.
4238 *) Reverse ENGINE-internal logic for caching default ENGINE handles.
4239 This was broken until now in 0.9.8 releases, such that the only way
4240 a registered ENGINE could be used (assuming it initialises
4241 successfully on the host) was to explicitly set it as the default
4242 for the relevant algorithms. This is in contradiction with 0.9.7
4243 behaviour and the documentation. With this fix, when an ENGINE is
4244 registered into a given algorithm's table of implementations, the
4245 'uptodate' flag is reset so that auto-discovery will be used next
4246 time a new context for that algorithm attempts to select an
4248 [Ian Lister (tweaked by Geoff Thorpe)]
4250 *) Backport of CMS code to OpenSSL 0.9.8. This differs from the 0.9.9
4251 implementation in the following ways:
4253 Lack of EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD means algorithm parameters have to be
4256 Lack of BER streaming support means one pass streaming processing is
4257 only supported if data is detached: setting the streaming flag is
4258 ignored for embedded content.
4260 CMS support is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled
4261 with the enable-cms configuration option.
4264 *) Update the GMP engine glue to do direct copies between BIGNUM and
4265 mpz_t when openssl and GMP use the same limb size. Otherwise the
4266 existing "conversion via a text string export" trick is still used.
4267 [Paul Sheer <paulsheer@gmail.com>]
4269 *) Zlib compression BIO. This is a filter BIO which compressed and
4270 uncompresses any data passed through it.
4273 *) Add AES_wrap_key() and AES_unwrap_key() functions to implement
4274 RFC3394 compatible AES key wrapping.
4277 *) Add utility functions to handle ASN1 structures. ASN1_STRING_set0():
4278 sets string data without copying. X509_ALGOR_set0() and
4279 X509_ALGOR_get0(): set and retrieve X509_ALGOR (AlgorithmIdentifier)
4280 data. Attribute function X509at_get0_data_by_OBJ(): retrieves data
4281 from an X509_ATTRIBUTE structure optionally checking it occurs only
4282 once. ASN1_TYPE_set1(): set and ASN1_TYPE structure copying supplied
4286 *) Fix BN flag handling in RSA_eay_mod_exp() and BN_MONT_CTX_set()
4287 to get the expected BN_FLG_CONSTTIME behavior.
4288 [Bodo Moeller (Google)]
4292 - fixed wrong usage of ioctlsocket() when build for LIBC BSD sockets