5 This is a high-level summary of the most important changes.
6 For a full list of changes, see the git commit log; for example,
7 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/ and pick the appropriate
10 Changes between 1.0.2s and 1.0.2t [xx XXX xxxx]
12 *) Document issue with installation paths in diverse Windows builds
14 '/usr/local/ssl' is an unsafe prefix for location to install OpenSSL
15 binaries and run-time config file.
19 Changes between 1.0.2r and 1.0.2s [28 May 2019]
21 *) Change the default RSA, DSA and DH size to 2048 bit instead of 1024.
22 This changes the size when using the genpkey app when no size is given. It
23 fixes an omission in earlier changes that changed all RSA, DSA and DH
24 generation apps to use 2048 bits by default.
27 *) Add FIPS support for Android Arm 64-bit
29 Support for Android Arm 64-bit was added to the OpenSSL FIPS Object
30 Module in Version 2.0.10. For some reason, the corresponding target
31 'android64-aarch64' was missing OpenSSL 1.0.2, whence it could not be
32 built with FIPS support on Android Arm 64-bit. This omission has been
36 Changes between 1.0.2q and 1.0.2r [26 Feb 2019]
38 *) 0-byte record padding oracle
40 If an application encounters a fatal protocol error and then calls
41 SSL_shutdown() twice (once to send a close_notify, and once to receive one)
42 then OpenSSL can respond differently to the calling application if a 0 byte
43 record is received with invalid padding compared to if a 0 byte record is
44 received with an invalid MAC. If the application then behaves differently
45 based on that in a way that is detectable to the remote peer, then this
46 amounts to a padding oracle that could be used to decrypt data.
48 In order for this to be exploitable "non-stitched" ciphersuites must be in
49 use. Stitched ciphersuites are optimised implementations of certain
50 commonly used ciphersuites. Also the application must call SSL_shutdown()
51 twice even if a protocol error has occurred (applications should not do
52 this but some do anyway).
54 This issue was discovered by Juraj Somorovsky, Robert Merget and Nimrod
55 Aviram, with additional investigation by Steven Collison and Andrew
56 Hourselt. It was reported to OpenSSL on 10th December 2018.
60 *) Move strictness check from EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() to EVP_PKEY_asn1_add0().
63 Changes between 1.0.2p and 1.0.2q [20 Nov 2018]
65 *) Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar multiplication
67 OpenSSL ECC scalar multiplication, used in e.g. ECDSA and ECDH, has been
68 shown to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel attack.
69 An attacker with sufficient access to mount local timing attacks during
70 ECDSA signature generation could recover the private key.
72 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th October 2018 by Alejandro
73 Cabrera Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Cesar Pereida Garcia and
78 *) Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation
80 The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
81 timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
82 algorithm to recover the private key.
84 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 16th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
88 *) Resolve a compatibility issue in EC_GROUP handling with the FIPS Object
89 Module, accidentally introduced while backporting security fixes from the
90 development branch and hindering the use of ECC in FIPS mode.
93 Changes between 1.0.2o and 1.0.2p [14 Aug 2018]
95 *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
97 During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
98 malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
99 cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
100 key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
101 could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
103 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
107 *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
109 The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
110 a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
111 mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
112 recover the private key.
114 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
115 Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
119 *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
120 parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
121 pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
124 *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
125 length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
128 *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
129 being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
130 For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
131 The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
133 [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
135 *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
138 *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
139 attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
142 *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
143 now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
146 *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
147 compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
148 are no longer allowed.
151 Changes between 1.0.2n and 1.0.2o [27 Mar 2018]
153 *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
155 Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
156 in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
157 excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
158 are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
159 so this is considered safe.
161 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
166 Changes between 1.0.2m and 1.0.2n [7 Dec 2017]
168 *) Read/write after SSL object in error state
170 OpenSSL 1.0.2 (starting from version 1.0.2b) introduced an "error state"
171 mechanism. The intent was that if a fatal error occurred during a handshake
172 then OpenSSL would move into the error state and would immediately fail if
173 you attempted to continue the handshake. This works as designed for the
174 explicit handshake functions (SSL_do_handshake(), SSL_accept() and
175 SSL_connect()), however due to a bug it does not work correctly if
176 SSL_read() or SSL_write() is called directly. In that scenario, if the
177 handshake fails then a fatal error will be returned in the initial function
178 call. If SSL_read()/SSL_write() is subsequently called by the application
179 for the same SSL object then it will succeed and the data is passed without
180 being decrypted/encrypted directly from the SSL/TLS record layer.
182 In order to exploit this issue an application bug would have to be present
183 that resulted in a call to SSL_read()/SSL_write() being issued after having
184 already received a fatal error.
186 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google).
190 *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
192 There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
193 used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
194 Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
195 defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
196 Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
197 work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
198 offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
199 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
200 would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
201 no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
203 This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
204 like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
206 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
207 was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
211 Changes between 1.0.2l and 1.0.2m [2 Nov 2017]
213 *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
215 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
216 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
217 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
218 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
219 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
220 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
221 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
222 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
223 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
224 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
225 key that is shared between multiple clients.
227 This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
228 like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
230 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
234 *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
236 If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
237 OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
238 would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
240 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
244 Changes between 1.0.2k and 1.0.2l [25 May 2017]
246 *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
247 platform rather than 'mingw'.
250 Changes between 1.0.2j and 1.0.2k [26 Jan 2017]
252 *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
254 If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
255 cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
256 perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
258 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
262 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
264 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
265 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
266 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
267 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
268 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
269 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
270 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
271 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
272 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
273 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
274 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
275 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
276 similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
278 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
282 *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
284 There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
285 multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
286 longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
287 and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
288 question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
289 of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
290 transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
291 erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
292 Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
293 presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
294 detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
295 multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
296 share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
297 Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
299 This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
300 initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
301 providing reproducible case.
305 *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
306 or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
307 prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
308 sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
311 Changes between 1.0.2i and 1.0.2j [26 Sep 2016]
313 *) Missing CRL sanity check
315 A bug fix which included a CRL sanity check was added to OpenSSL 1.1.0
316 but was omitted from OpenSSL 1.0.2i. As a result any attempt to use
317 CRLs in OpenSSL 1.0.2i will crash with a null pointer exception.
319 This issue only affects the OpenSSL 1.0.2i
323 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.0.2i [22 Sep 2016]
325 *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
327 A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
328 extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
329 large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
330 memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
331 Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
332 configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
333 the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
335 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
339 *) In order to mitigate the SWEET32 attack, the DES ciphers were moved from
342 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan
347 *) OOB write in MDC2_Update()
349 An overflow can occur in MDC2_Update() either if called directly or
350 through the EVP_DigestUpdate() function using MDC2. If an attacker
351 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous
352 call to EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check
353 can overflow resulting in a heap corruption.
355 The amount of data needed is comparable to SIZE_MAX which is impractical
358 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
362 *) Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS
364 If a server uses SHA512 for TLS session ticket HMAC it is vulnerable to a
365 DoS attack where a malformed ticket will result in an OOB read which will
368 The use of SHA512 in TLS session tickets is comparatively rare as it requires
369 a custom server callback and ticket lookup mechanism.
371 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
375 *) OOB write in BN_bn2dec()
377 The function BN_bn2dec() does not check the return value of BN_div_word().
378 This can cause an OOB write if an application uses this function with an
379 overly large BIGNUM. This could be a problem if an overly large certificate
380 or CRL is printed out from an untrusted source. TLS is not affected because
381 record limits will reject an oversized certificate before it is parsed.
383 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
387 *) OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio()
389 The function TS_OBJ_print_bio() misuses OBJ_obj2txt(): the return value is
390 the total length the OID text representation would use and not the amount
391 of data written. This will result in OOB reads when large OIDs are
394 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
398 *) Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour
400 Avoid some undefined pointer arithmetic
402 A common idiom in the codebase is to check limits in the following manner:
405 Where "p" points to some malloc'd data of SIZE bytes and
408 "len" here could be from some externally supplied data (e.g. from a TLS
411 The rules of C pointer arithmetic are such that "p + len" is only well
412 defined where len <= SIZE. Therefore the above idiom is actually
415 For example this could cause problems if some malloc implementation
416 provides an address for "p" such that "p + len" actually overflows for
417 values of len that are too big and therefore p + len < limit.
419 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken
423 *) Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing
425 Operations in the DSA signing algorithm should run in constant time in
426 order to avoid side channel attacks. A flaw in the OpenSSL DSA
427 implementation means that a non-constant time codepath is followed for
428 certain operations. This has been demonstrated through a cache-timing
429 attack to be sufficient for an attacker to recover the private DSA key.
431 This issue was reported by César Pereida (Aalto University), Billy Brumley
432 (Tampere University of Technology), and Yuval Yarom (The University of
437 *) DTLS buffered message DoS
439 In a DTLS connection where handshake messages are delivered out-of-order
440 those messages that OpenSSL is not yet ready to process will be buffered
441 for later use. Under certain circumstances, a flaw in the logic means that
442 those messages do not get removed from the buffer even though the handshake
443 has been completed. An attacker could force up to approx. 15 messages to
444 remain in the buffer when they are no longer required. These messages will
445 be cleared when the DTLS connection is closed. The default maximum size for
446 a message is 100k. Therefore the attacker could force an additional 1500k
447 to be consumed per connection. By opening many simulataneous connections an
448 attacker could cause a DoS attack through memory exhaustion.
450 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Quan Luo.
454 *) DTLS replay protection DoS
456 A flaw in the DTLS replay attack protection mechanism means that records
457 that arrive for future epochs update the replay protection "window" before
458 the MAC for the record has been validated. This could be exploited by an
459 attacker by sending a record for the next epoch (which does not have to
460 decrypt or have a valid MAC), with a very large sequence number. This means
461 that all subsequent legitimate packets are dropped causing a denial of
462 service for a specific DTLS connection.
464 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OCAP audit team.
468 *) Certificate message OOB reads
470 In OpenSSL 1.0.2 and earlier some missing message length checks can result
471 in OOB reads of up to 2 bytes beyond an allocated buffer. There is a
472 theoretical DoS risk but this has not been observed in practice on common
475 The messages affected are client certificate, client certificate request
476 and server certificate. As a result the attack can only be performed
477 against a client or a server which enables client authentication.
479 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
483 Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
485 *) Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check
487 A MITM attacker can use a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic
488 when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support
491 This issue was introduced as part of the fix for Lucky 13 padding
492 attack (CVE-2013-0169). The padding check was rewritten to be in
493 constant time by making sure that always the same bytes are read and
494 compared against either the MAC or padding bytes. But it no longer
495 checked that there was enough data to have both the MAC and padding
498 This issue was reported by Juraj Somorovsky using TLS-Attacker.
502 *) Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow
504 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function which is used for
505 Base64 encoding of binary data. If an attacker is able to supply very large
506 amounts of input data then a length check can overflow resulting in a heap
509 Internally to OpenSSL the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function is primarly used by
510 the PEM_write_bio* family of functions. These are mainly used within the
511 OpenSSL command line applications, so any application which processes data
512 from an untrusted source and outputs it as a PEM file should be considered
513 vulnerable to this issue. User applications that call these APIs directly
514 with large amounts of untrusted data may also be vulnerable.
516 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
520 *) Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow
522 An overflow can occur in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. If an attacker
523 is able to supply very large amounts of input data after a previous call to
524 EVP_EncryptUpdate() with a partial block then a length check can overflow
525 resulting in a heap corruption. Following an analysis of all OpenSSL
526 internal usage of the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function all usage is one of two
527 forms. The first form is where the EVP_EncryptUpdate() call is known to be
528 the first called function after an EVP_EncryptInit(), and therefore that
529 specific call must be safe. The second form is where the length passed to
530 EVP_EncryptUpdate() can be seen from the code to be some small value and
531 therefore there is no possibility of an overflow. Since all instances are
532 one of these two forms, it is believed that there can be no overflows in
533 internal code due to this problem. It should be noted that
534 EVP_DecryptUpdate() can call EVP_EncryptUpdate() in certain code paths.
535 Also EVP_CipherUpdate() is a synonym for EVP_EncryptUpdate(). All instances
536 of these calls have also been analysed too and it is believed there are no
537 instances in internal usage where an overflow could occur.
539 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
543 *) Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation
545 When ASN.1 data is read from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio()
546 a short invalid encoding can casuse allocation of large amounts of memory
547 potentially consuming excessive resources or exhausting memory.
549 Any application parsing untrusted data through d2i BIO functions is
550 affected. The memory based functions such as d2i_X509() are *not* affected.
551 Since the memory based functions are used by the TLS library, TLS
552 applications are not affected.
554 This issue was reported by Brian Carpenter.
560 ASN1 Strings that are over 1024 bytes can cause an overread in applications
561 using the X509_NAME_oneline() function on EBCDIC systems. This could result
562 in arbitrary stack data being returned in the buffer.
564 This issue was reported by Guido Vranken.
568 *) Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
569 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
572 *) Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from the
576 *) Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. When the
577 methods are enabled and ssl2 is disabled the methods return NULL.
580 Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
582 * Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
583 Builds that are not configured with "enable-weak-ssl-ciphers" will not
584 provide any "EXPORT" or "LOW" strength ciphers.
587 * Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers. SSLv2
588 is by default disabled at build-time. Builds that are not configured with
589 "enable-ssl2" will not support SSLv2. Even if "enable-ssl2" is used,
590 users who want to negotiate SSLv2 via the version-flexible SSLv23_method()
591 will need to explicitly call either of:
593 SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
595 SSL_clear_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
597 as appropriate. Even if either of those is used, or the application
598 explicitly uses the version-specific SSLv2_method() or its client and
599 server variants, SSLv2 ciphers vulnerable to exhaustive search key
600 recovery have been removed. Specifically, the SSLv2 40-bit EXPORT
601 ciphers, and SSLv2 56-bit DES are no longer available.
605 *) Fix a double-free in DSA code
607 A double free bug was discovered when OpenSSL parses malformed DSA private
608 keys and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption for applications
609 that receive DSA private keys from untrusted sources. This scenario is
612 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley(Google/BoringSSL) using
617 *) Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak.
619 Add a new method SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user that handles the seed properly.
621 SRP_VBASE_get_by_user had inconsistent memory management behaviour.
622 In order to fix an unavoidable memory leak, SRP_VBASE_get_by_user
623 was changed to ignore the "fake user" SRP seed, even if the seed
626 Users should use SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user instead. Note that in
627 SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user, caller must free the returned value. Note
628 also that even though configuring the SRP seed attempts to hide
629 invalid usernames by continuing the handshake with fake
630 credentials, this behaviour is not constant time and no strong
631 guarantees are made that the handshake is indistinguishable from
632 that of a valid user.
636 *) Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
638 In the BN_hex2bn function the number of hex digits is calculated using an
639 int value |i|. Later |bn_expand| is called with a value of |i * 4|. For
640 large values of |i| this can result in |bn_expand| not allocating any
641 memory because |i * 4| is negative. This can leave the internal BIGNUM data
642 field as NULL leading to a subsequent NULL ptr deref. For very large values
643 of |i|, the calculation |i * 4| could be a positive value smaller than |i|.
644 In this case memory is allocated to the internal BIGNUM data field, but it
645 is insufficiently sized leading to heap corruption. A similar issue exists
646 in BN_dec2bn. This could have security consequences if BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn
647 is ever called by user applications with very large untrusted hex/dec data.
648 This is anticipated to be a rare occurrence.
650 All OpenSSL internal usage of these functions use data that is not expected
651 to be untrusted, e.g. config file data or application command line
652 arguments. If user developed applications generate config file data based
653 on untrusted data then it is possible that this could also lead to security
654 consequences. This is also anticipated to be rare.
656 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
660 *) Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
662 The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a "%s" format string in
663 the BIO_*printf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a
664 string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings.
666 Additionally the internal |doapr_outch| function can attempt to write to an
667 OOB memory location (at an offset from the NULL pointer) in the event of a
668 memory allocation failure. In 1.0.2 and below this could be caused where
669 the size of a buffer to be allocated is greater than INT_MAX. E.g. this
670 could be in processing a very long "%s" format string. Memory leaks can
673 The first issue may mask the second issue dependent on compiler behaviour.
674 These problems could enable attacks where large amounts of untrusted data
675 is passed to the BIO_*printf functions. If applications use these functions
676 in this way then they could be vulnerable. OpenSSL itself uses these
677 functions when printing out human-readable dumps of ASN.1 data. Therefore
678 applications that print this data could be vulnerable if the data is from
679 untrusted sources. OpenSSL command line applications could also be
680 vulnerable where they print out ASN.1 data, or if untrusted data is passed
681 as command line arguments.
683 Libssl is not considered directly vulnerable. Additionally certificates etc
684 received via remote connections via libssl are also unlikely to be able to
685 trigger these issues because of message size limits enforced within libssl.
687 This issue was reported to OpenSSL Guido Vranken.
691 *) Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
693 A side-channel attack was found which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on
694 the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture which could lead to the recovery
695 of RSA keys. The ability to exploit this issue is limited as it relies on
696 an attacker who has control of code in a thread running on the same
697 hyper-threaded core as the victim thread which is performing decryptions.
699 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Yuval Yarom, The University of
700 Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin, Technion and Tel Aviv University, and
701 Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania with more information at
702 http://cachebleed.info.
706 *) Change the req app to generate a 2048-bit RSA/DSA key by default,
707 if no keysize is specified with default_bits. This fixes an
708 omission in an earlier change that changed all RSA/DSA key generation
709 apps to use 2048 bits by default.
712 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
714 *) DH small subgroups
716 Historically OpenSSL only ever generated DH parameters based on "safe"
717 primes. More recently (in version 1.0.2) support was provided for
718 generating X9.42 style parameter files such as those required for RFC 5114
719 support. The primes used in such files may not be "safe". Where an
720 application is using DH configured with parameters based on primes that are
721 not "safe" then an attacker could use this fact to find a peer's private
722 DH exponent. This attack requires that the attacker complete multiple
723 handshakes in which the peer uses the same private DH exponent. For example
724 this could be used to discover a TLS server's private DH exponent if it's
725 reusing the private DH exponent or it's using a static DH ciphersuite.
727 OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in
728 TLS. It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server
729 reuses the same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and
730 would be vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular
731 applications do set this option and would therefore not be at risk.
733 The fix for this issue adds an additional check where a "q" parameter is
734 available (as is the case in X9.42 based parameters). This detects the
735 only known attack, and is the only possible defense for static DH
736 ciphersuites. This could have some performance impact.
738 Additionally the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option has been switched on by
739 default and cannot be disabled. This could have some performance impact.
741 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Antonio Sanso (Adobe).
745 *) SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers
747 A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on
748 the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have
749 been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via
752 This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th December 2015 by Nimrod Aviram
753 and Sebastian Schinzel.
757 *) Reject DH handshakes with parameters shorter than 1024 bits.
760 Changes between 1.0.2d and 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
762 *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
764 There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
765 procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
766 against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
767 perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
768 feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
769 deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
770 of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
771 likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
772 additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
773 private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
774 key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
775 default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites.
777 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Hanno Böck.
781 *) Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
783 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
784 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
785 algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. Since these
786 routines are used to verify certificate signature algorithms this can be
787 used to crash any certificate verification operation and exploited in a
788 DoS attack. Any application which performs certificate verification is
789 vulnerable including OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client
792 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Loïc Jonas Etienne (Qnective AG).
796 *) X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak
798 When presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure OpenSSL will leak
799 memory. This structure is used by the PKCS#7 and CMS routines so any
800 application which reads PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources is
801 affected. SSL/TLS is not affected.
803 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) using
808 *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
809 This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
810 though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
811 legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
814 *) In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
815 use a random seed, as already documented.
816 [Rich Salz and Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>]
818 Changes between 1.0.2c and 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
820 *) Alternate chains certificate forgery
822 During certificate verfification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an
823 alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain
824 fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an
825 attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be
826 bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf
827 certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.
829 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin
834 *) Race condition handling PSK identify hint
836 If PSK identity hints are received by a multi-threaded client then
837 the values are wrongly updated in the parent SSL_CTX structure. This can
838 result in a race condition potentially leading to a double free of the
843 Changes between 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
845 *) Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility. The previous version introduced an ABI
846 incompatibility in the handling of HMAC. The previous ABI has now been
849 Changes between 1.0.2a and 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
851 *) Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
853 When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop
854 if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial
857 This can be used to perform denial of service against any
858 system which processes public keys, certificate requests or
859 certificates. This includes TLS clients and TLS servers with
860 client authentication enabled.
862 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joseph Barr-Pixton.
866 *) Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
868 X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME
869 string and can read a few bytes out of bounds. In addition,
870 X509_cmp_time accepts an arbitrary number of fractional seconds in the
873 An attacker can use this to craft malformed certificates and CRLs of
874 various sizes and potentially cause a segmentation fault, resulting in
875 a DoS on applications that verify certificates or CRLs. TLS clients
876 that verify CRLs are affected. TLS clients and servers with client
877 authentication enabled may be affected if they use custom verification
880 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Swiecki (Google), and
881 independently by Hanno Böck.
885 *) PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent
887 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing inner EncryptedContent
888 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs
889 with missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
891 Applications that decrypt PKCS#7 data or otherwise parse PKCS#7
892 structures from untrusted sources are affected. OpenSSL clients and
893 servers are not affected.
895 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
899 *) CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
901 When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop
902 if presented with an unknown hash function OID. This can be used to perform
903 denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using
905 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Johannes Bauer.
909 *) Race condition handling NewSessionTicket
911 If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when attempting to
912 reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur potentially leading to
913 a double free of the ticket data.
917 *) Removed support for the two export grade static DH ciphersuites
918 EXP-DH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA and EXP-DH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA. These two ciphersuites
919 were newly added (along with a number of other static DH ciphersuites) to
920 1.0.2. However the two export ones have *never* worked since they were
921 introduced. It seems strange in any case to be adding new export
922 ciphersuites, and given "logjam" it also does not seem correct to fix them.
925 *) Only support 256-bit or stronger elliptic curves with the
926 'ecdh_auto' setting (server) or by default (client). Of supported
927 curves, prefer P-256 (both).
930 *) Reject DH handshakes with parameters shorter than 768 bits.
931 [Kurt Roeckx and Emilia Kasper]
933 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
935 *) ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix
937 If a client connects to an OpenSSL 1.0.2 server and renegotiates with an
938 invalid signature algorithms extension a NULL pointer dereference will
939 occur. This can be exploited in a DoS attack against the server.
941 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by David Ramos of Stanford
944 [Stephen Henson and Matt Caswell]
946 *) Multiblock corrupted pointer fix
948 OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
949 feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
950 NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
951 OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
952 using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
953 socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
954 However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
955 fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.
957 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Daniel Danner and Rainer Mueller.
961 *) Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix
963 The DTLSv1_listen function is intended to be stateless and processes the
964 initial ClientHello from many peers. It is common for user code to loop
965 over the call to DTLSv1_listen until a valid ClientHello is received with
966 an associated cookie. A defect in the implementation of DTLSv1_listen means
967 that state is preserved in the SSL object from one invocation to the next
968 that can lead to a segmentation fault. Errors processing the initial
969 ClientHello can trigger this scenario. An example of such an error could be
970 that a DTLS1.0 only client is attempting to connect to a DTLS1.2 only
973 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Per Allansson.
977 *) Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix
979 The function ASN1_TYPE_cmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is
980 made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1_TYPE_cmp is used to check
981 certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any
982 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
983 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
984 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
988 *) Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix
990 The signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer
991 dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS
992 algorithm and invalid parameters. Since these routines are used to verify
993 certificate signature algorithms this can be used to crash any
994 certificate verification operation and exploited in a DoS attack. Any
995 application which performs certificate verification is vulnerable including
996 OpenSSL clients and servers which enable client authentication.
998 This issue was was reported to OpenSSL by Brian Carpenter.
1002 *) ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix
1004 Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause
1005 memory corruption via an invalid write. Such reuse is and has been
1006 strongly discouraged and is believed to be rare.
1008 Applications that parse structures containing CHOICE or ANY DEFINED BY
1009 components may be affected. Certificate parsing (d2i_X509 and related
1010 functions) are however not affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are
1015 *) PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix
1017 The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo
1018 correctly. An attacker can craft malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with
1019 missing content and trigger a NULL pointer dereference on parsing.
1021 Applications that verify PKCS#7 signatures, decrypt PKCS#7 data or
1022 otherwise parse PKCS#7 structures from untrusted sources are
1023 affected. OpenSSL clients and servers are not affected.
1025 This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Michal Zalewski (Google).
1029 *) DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix
1031 A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert (i.e., an abort) in
1032 servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending
1033 a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message.
1035 This issue was discovered by Sean Burford (Google) and Emilia Käsper
1036 (OpenSSL development team).
1040 *) Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix
1042 If client auth is used then a server can seg fault in the event of a DHE
1043 ciphersuite being selected and a zero length ClientKeyExchange message
1044 being sent by the client. This could be exploited in a DoS attack.
1048 *) Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix
1050 Under certain conditions an OpenSSL 1.0.2 client can complete a handshake
1051 with an unseeded PRNG. The conditions are:
1052 - The client is on a platform where the PRNG has not been seeded
1053 automatically, and the user has not seeded manually
1054 - A protocol specific client method version has been used (i.e. not
1055 SSL_client_methodv23)
1056 - A ciphersuite is used that does not require additional random data from
1057 the PRNG beyond the initial ClientHello client random (e.g. PSK-RC4-SHA).
1059 If the handshake succeeds then the client random that has been used will
1060 have been generated from a PRNG with insufficient entropy and therefore the
1061 output may be predictable.
1063 For example using the following command with an unseeded openssl will
1064 succeed on an unpatched platform:
1066 openssl s_client -psk 1a2b3c4d -tls1_2 -cipher PSK-RC4-SHA
1070 *) Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix
1072 A malformed EC private key file consumed via the d2i_ECPrivateKey function
1073 could cause a use after free condition. This, in turn, could cause a double
1074 free in several private key parsing functions (such as d2i_PrivateKey
1075 or EVP_PKCS82PKEY) and could lead to a DoS attack or memory corruption
1076 for applications that receive EC private keys from untrusted
1077 sources. This scenario is considered rare.
1079 This issue was discovered by the BoringSSL project and fixed in their
1084 *) X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix
1086 The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if
1087 the certificate key is invalid. This function is rarely used in practice.
1089 This issue was discovered by Brian Carpenter.
1093 *) Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
1096 Changes between 1.0.1l and 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]
1098 *) Change RSA and DH/DSA key generation apps to generate 2048-bit
1102 *) Facilitate "universal" ARM builds targeting range of ARM ISAs, e.g.
1103 ARMv5 through ARMv8, as opposite to "locking" it to single one.
1104 So far those who have to target multiple plaforms would compromise
1105 and argue that binary targeting say ARMv5 would still execute on
1106 ARMv8. "Universal" build resolves this compromise by providing
1107 near-optimal performance even on newer platforms.
1110 *) Accelerated NIST P-256 elliptic curve implementation for x86_64
1111 (other platforms pending).
1112 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp), Andy Polyakov]
1114 *) Add support for the SignedCertificateTimestampList certificate and
1115 OCSP response extensions from RFC6962.
1118 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
1119 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
1120 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
1123 *) Initial support for PowerISA 2.0.7, first implemented in POWER8.
1124 This covers AES, SHA256/512 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most
1125 common cases are optimized and there still is room for further
1126 improvements. Vector Permutation AES for Altivec is also added.
1129 *) Add support for little-endian ppc64 Linux target.
1130 [Marcelo Cerri (IBM)]
1132 *) Initial support for AMRv8 ISA crypto extensions. This covers AES,
1133 SHA1, SHA256 and GHASH. "Initial" means that most common cases
1134 are optimized and there still is room for further improvements.
1135 Both 32- and 64-bit modes are supported.
1136 [Andy Polyakov, Ard Biesheuvel (Linaro)]
1138 *) Improved ARMv7 NEON support.
1141 *) Support for SPARC Architecture 2011 crypto extensions, first
1142 implemented in SPARC T4. This covers AES, DES, Camellia, SHA1,
1143 SHA256/512, MD5, GHASH and modular exponentiation.
1144 [Andy Polyakov, David Miller]
1146 *) Accelerated modular exponentiation for Intel processors, a.k.a.
1148 [Shay Gueron & Vlad Krasnov (Intel Corp)]
1150 *) Support for new and upcoming Intel processors, including AVX2,
1151 BMI and SHA ISA extensions. This includes additional "stitched"
1152 implementations, AESNI-SHA256 and GCM, and multi-buffer support
1155 This work was sponsored by Intel Corp.
1158 *) Support for DTLS 1.2. This adds two sets of DTLS methods: DTLS_*_method()
1159 supports both DTLS 1.2 and 1.0 and should use whatever version the peer
1160 supports and DTLSv1_2_*_method() which supports DTLS 1.2 only.
1163 *) Use algorithm specific chains in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():
1164 this fixes a limiation in previous versions of OpenSSL.
1167 *) Extended RSA OAEP support via EVP_PKEY API. Options to specify digest,
1168 MGF1 digest and OAEP label.
1171 *) Add EVP support for key wrapping algorithms, to avoid problems with
1172 existing code the flag EVP_CIPHER_CTX_WRAP_ALLOW has to be set in
1173 the EVP_CIPHER_CTX or an error is returned. Add AES and DES3 wrap
1174 algorithms and include tests cases.
1177 *) Add functions to allocate and set the fields of an ECDSA_METHOD
1179 [Douglas E. Engert, Steve Henson]
1181 *) New functions OPENSSL_gmtime_diff and ASN1_TIME_diff to find the
1182 difference in days and seconds between two tm or ASN1_TIME structures.
1185 *) Add -rev test option to s_server to just reverse order of characters
1186 received by client and send back to server. Also prints an abbreviated
1187 summary of the connection parameters.
1190 *) New option -brief for s_client and s_server to print out a brief summary
1191 of connection parameters.
1194 *) Add callbacks for arbitrary TLS extensions.
1195 [Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> and Ben Laurie]
1197 *) New option -crl_download in several openssl utilities to download CRLs
1198 from CRLDP extension in certificates.
1201 *) New options -CRL and -CRLform for s_client and s_server for CRLs.
1204 *) New function X509_CRL_diff to generate a delta CRL from the difference
1205 of two full CRLs. Add support to "crl" utility.
1208 *) New functions to set lookup_crls function and to retrieve
1209 X509_STORE from X509_STORE_CTX.
1212 *) Print out deprecated issuer and subject unique ID fields in
1216 *) Extend OCSP I/O functions so they can be used for simple general purpose
1217 HTTP as well as OCSP. New wrapper function which can be used to download
1218 CRLs using the OCSP API.
1221 *) Delegate command line handling in s_client/s_server to SSL_CONF APIs.
1224 *) SSL_CONF* functions. These provide a common framework for application
1225 configuration using configuration files or command lines.
1228 *) SSL/TLS tracing code. This parses out SSL/TLS records using the
1229 message callback and prints the results. Needs compile time option
1230 "enable-ssl-trace". New options to s_client and s_server to enable
1234 *) New ctrl and macro to retrieve supported points extensions.
1235 Print out extension in s_server and s_client.
1238 *) New functions to retrieve certificate signature and signature
1242 *) Add functions to retrieve and manipulate the raw cipherlist sent by a
1246 *) New Suite B modes for TLS code. These use and enforce the requirements
1247 of RFC6460: restrict ciphersuites, only permit Suite B algorithms and
1248 only use Suite B curves. The Suite B modes can be set by using the
1249 strings "SUITEB128", "SUITEB192" or "SUITEB128ONLY" for the cipherstring.
1252 *) New chain verification flags for Suite B levels of security. Check
1253 algorithms are acceptable when flags are set in X509_verify_cert.
1256 *) Make tls1_check_chain return a set of flags indicating checks passed
1257 by a certificate chain. Add additional tests to handle client
1258 certificates: checks for matching certificate type and issuer name
1262 *) If an attempt is made to use a signature algorithm not in the peer
1263 preference list abort the handshake. If client has no suitable
1264 signature algorithms in response to a certificate request do not
1265 use the certificate.
1268 *) If server EC tmp key is not in client preference list abort handshake.
1271 *) Add support for certificate stores in CERT structure. This makes it
1272 possible to have different stores per SSL structure or one store in
1273 the parent SSL_CTX. Include distint stores for certificate chain
1274 verification and chain building. New ctrl SSL_CTRL_BUILD_CERT_CHAIN
1275 to build and store a certificate chain in CERT structure: returing
1276 an error if the chain cannot be built: this will allow applications
1277 to test if a chain is correctly configured.
1279 Note: if the CERT based stores are not set then the parent SSL_CTX
1280 store is used to retain compatibility with existing behaviour.
1284 *) New function ssl_set_client_disabled to set a ciphersuite disabled
1285 mask based on the current session, check mask when sending client
1286 hello and checking the requested ciphersuite.
1289 *) New ctrls to retrieve and set certificate types in a certificate
1290 request message. Print out received values in s_client. If certificate
1291 types is not set with custom values set sensible values based on
1292 supported signature algorithms.
1295 *) Support for distinct client and server supported signature algorithms.
1298 *) Add certificate callback. If set this is called whenever a certificate
1299 is required by client or server. An application can decide which
1300 certificate chain to present based on arbitrary criteria: for example
1301 supported signature algorithms. Add very simple example to s_server.
1302 This fixes many of the problems and restrictions of the existing client
1303 certificate callback: for example you can now clear an existing
1304 certificate and specify the whole chain.
1307 *) Add new "valid_flags" field to CERT_PKEY structure which determines what
1308 the certificate can be used for (if anything). Set valid_flags field
1309 in new tls1_check_chain function. Simplify ssl_set_cert_masks which used
1310 to have similar checks in it.
1312 Add new "cert_flags" field to CERT structure and include a "strict mode".
1313 This enforces some TLS certificate requirements (such as only permitting
1314 certificate signature algorithms contained in the supported algorithms
1315 extension) which some implementations ignore: this option should be used
1316 with caution as it could cause interoperability issues.
1319 *) Update and tidy signature algorithm extension processing. Work out
1320 shared signature algorithms based on preferences and peer algorithms
1321 and print them out in s_client and s_server. Abort handshake if no
1322 shared signature algorithms.
1325 *) Add new functions to allow customised supported signature algorithms
1326 for SSL and SSL_CTX structures. Add options to s_client and s_server
1330 *) New function SSL_certs_clear() to delete all references to certificates
1331 from an SSL structure. Before this once a certificate had been added
1332 it couldn't be removed.
1335 *) Integrate hostname, email address and IP address checking with certificate
1336 verification. New verify options supporting checking in opensl utility.
1339 *) Fixes and wildcard matching support to hostname and email checking
1340 functions. Add manual page.
1341 [Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security Team)]
1343 *) New functions to check a hostname email or IP address against a
1344 certificate. Add options x509 utility to print results of checks against
1348 *) Fix OCSP checking.
1349 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> and Ben Laurie]
1351 *) Initial experimental support for explicitly trusted non-root CAs.
1352 OpenSSL still tries to build a complete chain to a root but if an
1353 intermediate CA has a trust setting included that is used. The first
1354 setting is used: whether to trust (e.g., -addtrust option to the x509
1358 *) Add -trusted_first option which attempts to find certificates in the
1359 trusted store even if an untrusted chain is also supplied.
1362 *) MIPS assembly pack updates: support for MIPS32r2 and SmartMIPS ASE,
1363 platform support for Linux and Android.
1366 *) Support for linux-x32, ILP32 environment in x86_64 framework.
1369 *) Experimental multi-implementation support for FIPS capable OpenSSL.
1370 When in FIPS mode the approved implementations are used as normal,
1371 when not in FIPS mode the internal unapproved versions are used instead.
1372 This means that the FIPS capable OpenSSL isn't forced to use the
1373 (often lower perfomance) FIPS implementations outside FIPS mode.
1376 *) Transparently support X9.42 DH parameters when calling
1377 PEM_read_bio_DHparameters. This means existing applications can handle
1378 the new parameter format automatically.
1381 *) Initial experimental support for X9.42 DH parameter format: mainly
1382 to support use of 'q' parameter for RFC5114 parameters.
1385 *) Add DH parameters from RFC5114 including test data to dhtest.
1388 *) Support for automatic EC temporary key parameter selection. If enabled
1389 the most preferred EC parameters are automatically used instead of
1390 hardcoded fixed parameters. Now a server just has to call:
1391 SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1) and the server will automatically
1392 support ECDH and use the most appropriate parameters.
1395 *) Enhance and tidy EC curve and point format TLS extension code. Use
1396 static structures instead of allocation if default values are used.
1397 New ctrls to set curves we wish to support and to retrieve shared curves.
1398 Print out shared curves in s_server. New options to s_server and s_client
1399 to set list of supported curves.
1402 *) New ctrls to retrieve supported signature algorithms and
1403 supported curve values as an array of NIDs. Extend openssl utility
1404 to print out received values.
1407 *) Add new APIs EC_curve_nist2nid and EC_curve_nid2nist which convert
1408 between NIDs and the more common NIST names such as "P-256". Enhance
1409 ecparam utility and ECC method to recognise the NIST names for curves.
1412 *) Enhance SSL/TLS certificate chain handling to support different
1413 chains for each certificate instead of one chain in the parent SSL_CTX.
1416 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuite client authentication: where both
1417 server and client use DH certificates with common parameters.
1420 *) Support for fixed DH ciphersuites: those requiring DH server
1424 *) New function i2d_re_X509_tbs for re-encoding the TBS portion of
1426 Note: Related 1.0.2-beta specific macros X509_get_cert_info,
1427 X509_CINF_set_modified, X509_CINF_get_issuer, X509_CINF_get_extensions and
1428 X509_CINF_get_signature were reverted post internal team review.
1430 Changes between 1.0.1k and 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
1432 *) Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
1433 [Matt Caswell and Richard Levitte]
1435 Changes between 1.0.1j and 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
1437 *) Fix DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record. A carefully crafted DTLS
1438 message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer
1439 dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. Thanks to
1440 Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. for reporting this issue.
1444 *) Fix DTLS memory leak in dtls1_buffer_record. A memory leak can occur in the
1445 dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this
1446 could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same
1447 sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited
1448 by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion.
1449 Thanks to Chris Mueller for reporting this issue.
1453 *) Fix issue where no-ssl3 configuration sets method to NULL. When openssl is
1454 built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello is received the ssl
1455 method would be set to NULL which could later result in a NULL pointer
1456 dereference. Thanks to Frank Schmirler for reporting this issue.
1460 *) Abort handshake if server key exchange message is omitted for ephemeral
1463 Thanks to Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA for
1464 reporting this issue.
1468 *) Remove non-export ephemeral RSA code on client and server. This code
1469 violated the TLS standard by allowing the use of temporary RSA keys in
1470 non-export ciphersuites and could be used by a server to effectively
1471 downgrade the RSA key length used to a value smaller than the server
1472 certificate. Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at
1473 INRIA or reporting this issue.
1477 *) Fixed issue where DH client certificates are accepted without verification.
1478 An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client authentication
1479 without the certificate verify message. This effectively allows a client to
1480 authenticate without the use of a private key. This only affects servers
1481 which trust a client certificate authority which issues certificates
1482 containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and hardly ever encountered.
1483 Thanks for Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA or reporting
1488 *) Ensure that the session ID context of an SSL is updated when its
1489 SSL_CTX is updated via SSL_set_SSL_CTX.
1491 The session ID context is typically set from the parent SSL_CTX,
1492 and can vary with the CTX.
1495 *) Fix various certificate fingerprint issues.
1497 By using non-DER or invalid encodings outside the signed portion of a
1498 certificate the fingerprint can be changed without breaking the signature.
1499 Although no details of the signed portion of the certificate can be changed
1500 this can cause problems with some applications: e.g. those using the
1501 certificate fingerprint for blacklists.
1503 1. Reject signatures with non zero unused bits.
1505 If the BIT STRING containing the signature has non zero unused bits reject
1506 the signature. All current signature algorithms require zero unused bits.
1508 2. Check certificate algorithm consistency.
1510 Check the AlgorithmIdentifier inside TBS matches the one in the
1511 certificate signature. NB: this will result in signature failure
1512 errors for some broken certificates.
1514 Thanks to Konrad Kraszewski from Google for reporting this issue.
1516 3. Check DSA/ECDSA signatures use DER.
1518 Reencode DSA/ECDSA signatures and compare with the original received
1519 signature. Return an error if there is a mismatch.
1521 This will reject various cases including garbage after signature
1522 (thanks to Antti Karjalainen and Tuomo Untinen from the Codenomicon CROSS
1523 program for discovering this case) and use of BER or invalid ASN.1 INTEGERs
1524 (negative or with leading zeroes).
1526 Further analysis was conducted and fixes were developed by Stephen Henson
1527 of the OpenSSL core team.
1532 *) Correct Bignum squaring. Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect
1533 results on some platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random
1534 with a very low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any
1535 way, though its exact impact is difficult to determine. Thanks to Pieter
1536 Wuille (Blockstream) who reported this issue and also suggested an initial
1537 fix. Further analysis was conducted by the OpenSSL development team and
1538 Adam Langley of Google. The final fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
1539 the OpenSSL core team.
1543 *) Do not resume sessions on the server if the negotiated protocol
1544 version does not match the session's version. Resuming with a different
1545 version, while not strictly forbidden by the RFC, is of questionable
1546 sanity and breaks all known clients.
1547 [David Benjamin, Emilia Käsper]
1549 *) Tighten handling of the ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) message: reject
1550 early CCS messages during renegotiation. (Note that because
1551 renegotiation is encrypted, this early CCS was not exploitable.)
1554 *) Tighten client-side session ticket handling during renegotiation:
1555 ensure that the client only accepts a session ticket if the server sends
1556 the extension anew in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
1557 reuse the old extension state and thus accept a session ticket if one was
1558 announced in the initial ServerHello.
1560 Similarly, ensure that the client requires a session ticket if one
1561 was advertised in the ServerHello. Previously, a TLS client would
1562 ignore a missing NewSessionTicket message.
1565 Changes between 1.0.1i and 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
1567 *) SRTP Memory Leak.
1569 A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who
1570 sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail
1571 to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be
1572 exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects OpenSSL
1573 1.0.1 server implementations for both SSL/TLS and DTLS regardless of
1574 whether SRTP is used or configured. Implementations of OpenSSL that
1575 have been compiled with OPENSSL_NO_SRTP defined are not affected.
1577 The fix was developed by the OpenSSL team.
1581 *) Session Ticket Memory Leak.
1583 When an OpenSSL SSL/TLS/DTLS server receives a session ticket the
1584 integrity of that ticket is first verified. In the event of a session
1585 ticket integrity check failing, OpenSSL will fail to free memory
1586 causing a memory leak. By sending a large number of invalid session
1587 tickets an attacker could exploit this issue in a Denial Of Service
1592 *) Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete.
1594 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers
1595 could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be
1596 configured to send them.
1598 [Akamai and the OpenSSL team]
1600 *) Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
1601 Client applications doing fallback retries should call
1602 SSL_set_mode(s, SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV).
1604 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1606 *) Add additional DigestInfo checks.
1608 Reencode DigestInto in DER and check against the original when
1609 verifying RSA signature: this will reject any improperly encoded
1610 DigestInfo structures.
1612 Note: this is a precautionary measure and no attacks are currently known.
1616 Changes between 1.0.1h and 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
1618 *) Fix SRP buffer overrun vulnerability. Invalid parameters passed to the
1619 SRP code can be overrun an internal buffer. Add sanity check that
1620 g, A, B < N to SRP code.
1622 Thanks to Sean Devlin and Watson Ladd of Cryptography Services, NCC
1623 Group for discovering this issue.
1627 *) A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate
1628 TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message
1629 is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a
1630 downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a
1631 higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records.
1633 Thanks to David Benjamin and Adam Langley (Google) for discovering and
1634 researching this issue.
1638 *) OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject
1639 to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client
1640 with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH
1641 ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages.
1643 Thanks to Felix Gröbert (Google) for discovering and researching this
1648 *) By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl
1649 to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
1650 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
1654 *) An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst
1655 processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a
1656 Denial of Service attack.
1657 Thanks to Adam Langley for discovering and researching this issue.
1661 *) An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash
1662 whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This
1663 can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack.
1664 Thanks to Adam Langley and Wan-Teh Chang for discovering and researching
1669 *) If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed
1670 session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write
1671 up to 255 bytes to freed memory.
1673 Thanks to Gabor Tyukasz (LogMeIn Inc) for discovering and researching this
1678 *) A malicious server can crash an OpenSSL client with a null pointer
1679 dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not
1680 properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a
1681 Denial of Service attack.
1683 Thanks to Joonas Kuorilehto and Riku Hietamäki (Codenomicon) for
1684 discovering and researching this issue.
1688 *) A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as
1689 X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information
1690 from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing
1691 output to the attacker.
1693 Thanks to Ivan Fratric (Google) for discovering this issue.
1695 [Emilia Käsper, and Steve Henson]
1697 *) Fix ec_GFp_simple_points_make_affine (thus, EC_POINTs_mul etc.)
1698 for corner cases. (Certain input points at infinity could lead to
1699 bogus results, with non-infinity inputs mapped to infinity too.)
1702 Changes between 1.0.1g and 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
1704 *) Fix for SSL/TLS MITM flaw. An attacker using a carefully crafted
1705 handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL
1706 SSL/TLS clients and servers.
1708 Thanks to KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) for discovering and
1709 researching this issue. (CVE-2014-0224)
1710 [KIKUCHI Masashi, Steve Henson]
1712 *) Fix DTLS recursion flaw. By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an
1713 OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing
1716 Thanks to Imre Rad (Search-Lab Ltd.) for discovering this issue.
1718 [Imre Rad, Steve Henson]
1720 *) Fix DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability. A buffer overrun attack can
1721 be triggered by sending invalid DTLS fragments to an OpenSSL DTLS
1722 client or server. This is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary
1723 code on a vulnerable client or server.
1725 Thanks to Jüri Aedla for reporting this issue. (CVE-2014-0195)
1726 [Jüri Aedla, Steve Henson]
1728 *) Fix bug in TLS code where clients enable anonymous ECDH ciphersuites
1729 are subject to a denial of service attack.
1731 Thanks to Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratric at Google for discovering
1732 this issue. (CVE-2014-3470)
1733 [Felix Gröbert, Ivan Fratric, Steve Henson]
1735 *) Harmonize version and its documentation. -f flag is used to display
1737 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1739 *) Fix eckey_priv_encode so it immediately returns an error upon a failure
1740 in i2d_ECPrivateKey. Thanks to Ted Unangst for feedback on this issue.
1741 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1743 *) Fix some double frees. These are not thought to be exploitable.
1744 [mancha <mancha1@zoho.com>]
1746 Changes between 1.0.1f and 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
1748 *) A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
1749 can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or
1752 Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
1753 Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> for
1754 preparing the fix (CVE-2014-0160)
1755 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller]
1757 *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
1758 ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
1759 by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
1760 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
1762 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
1763 flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
1764 [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
1766 *) TLS pad extension: draft-agl-tls-padding-03
1768 Workaround for the "TLS hang bug" (see FAQ and PR#2771): if the
1769 TLS client Hello record length value would otherwise be > 255 and
1770 less that 512 pad with a dummy extension containing zeroes so it
1771 is at least 512 bytes long.
1773 [Adam Langley, Steve Henson]
1775 Changes between 1.0.1e and 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
1777 *) Fix for TLS record tampering bug. A carefully crafted invalid
1778 handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception.
1779 Thanks to Anton Johansson for reporting this issues.
1782 *) Keep original DTLS digest and encryption contexts in retransmission
1783 structures so we can use the previous session parameters if they need
1784 to be resent. (CVE-2013-6450)
1787 *) Add option SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which
1788 avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be
1789 Safari on OS X. Safari on OS X 10.8..10.8.3 advertises support for
1790 several ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers, but fails to negotiate them. The bug
1791 is fixed in OS X 10.8.4, but Apple have ruled out both hot fixing
1792 10.8..10.8.3 and forcing users to upgrade to 10.8.4 or newer.
1793 [Rob Stradling, Adam Langley]
1795 Changes between 1.0.1d and 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]
1797 *) Correct fix for CVE-2013-0169. The original didn't work on AES-NI
1798 supporting platforms or when small records were transferred.
1799 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
1801 Changes between 1.0.1c and 1.0.1d [5 Feb 2013]
1803 *) Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.
1805 This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by
1806 Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found
1807 at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
1809 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
1810 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
1811 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and
1812 Emilia Käsper for the initial patch.
1814 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
1816 *) Fix flaw in AESNI handling of TLS 1.2 and 1.1 records for CBC mode
1817 ciphersuites which can be exploited in a denial of service attack.
1818 Thanks go to and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for discovering
1819 and detecting this bug and to Wolfgang Ettlinger
1820 <wolfgang.ettlinger@gmail.com> for independently discovering this issue.
1824 *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
1825 This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
1828 *) Make openssl verify return errors.
1829 [Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1831 *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
1832 the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
1833 so it returns the certificate actually sent.
1834 See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836.
1835 [Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>]
1837 *) Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.
1840 *) Don't use TLS 1.0 record version number in initial client hello
1844 Changes between 1.0.1b and 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]
1846 *) Sanity check record length before skipping explicit IV in TLS
1847 1.2, 1.1 and DTLS to fix DoS attack.
1849 Thanks to Codenomicon for discovering this issue using Fuzz-o-Matic
1850 fuzzing as a service testing platform.
1854 *) Initialise tkeylen properly when encrypting CMS messages.
1855 Thanks to Solar Designer of Openwall for reporting this issue.
1858 *) In FIPS mode don't try to use composite ciphers as they are not
1862 Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]
1864 *) OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and
1865 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately
1866 mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting
1867 SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disablng
1868 TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to
1869 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against
1870 OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
1871 will need to be recompiled as a result. Letting be results in
1872 inability to disable specifically TLS 1.1 and in client context,
1873 in unlike event, limit maximum offered version to TLS 1.0 [see below].
1876 *) In order to ensure interoperabilty SSL_OP_NO_protocolX does not
1877 disable just protocol X, but all protocols above X *if* there are
1878 protocols *below* X still enabled. In more practical terms it means
1879 that if application wants to disable TLS1.0 in favor of TLS1.1 and
1880 above, it's not sufficient to pass SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1, one has to pass
1881 SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2. This applies to
1885 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]
1887 *) Check for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio
1888 BUF_mem_grow and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Refuse attempts to shrink buffer
1889 in CRYPTO_realloc_clean.
1891 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this
1892 issue and to Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org> for fixing it.
1894 [Adam Langley (Google), Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team]
1896 *) Don't allow TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0, 1.1 connections.
1899 *) Workarounds for some broken servers that "hang" if a client hello
1900 record length exceeds 255 bytes.
1902 1. Do not use record version number > TLS 1.0 in initial client
1903 hello: some (but not all) hanging servers will now work.
1904 2. If we set OPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH this will truncate
1905 the number of ciphers sent in the client hello. This should be
1906 set to an even number, such as 50, for example by passing:
1907 -DOPENSSL_MAX_TLS1_2_CIPHER_LENGTH=50 to config or Configure.
1908 Most broken servers should now work.
1909 3. If all else fails setting OPENSSL_NO_TLS1_2_CLIENT will disable
1910 TLS 1.2 client support entirely.
1913 *) Fix SEGV in Vector Permutation AES module observed in OpenSSH.
1916 Changes between 1.0.0h and 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]
1918 *) Add compatibility with old MDC2 signatures which use an ASN1 OCTET
1919 STRING form instead of a DigestInfo.
1922 *) The format used for MDC2 RSA signatures is inconsistent between EVP
1923 and the RSA_sign/RSA_verify functions. This was made more apparent when
1924 OpenSSL used RSA_sign/RSA_verify for some RSA signatures in particular
1925 those which went through EVP_PKEY_METHOD in 1.0.0 and later. Detect
1926 the correct format in RSA_verify so both forms transparently work.
1929 *) Some servers which support TLS 1.0 can choke if we initially indicate
1930 support for TLS 1.2 and later renegotiate using TLS 1.0 in the RSA
1931 encrypted premaster secret. As a workaround use the maximum pemitted
1932 client version in client hello, this should keep such servers happy
1933 and still work with previous versions of OpenSSL.
1936 *) Add support for TLS/DTLS heartbeats.
1937 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
1939 *) Add support for SCTP.
1940 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
1942 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
1943 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
1945 *) Extensive assembler packs updates, most notably:
1947 - x86[_64]: AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ, RDRAND support;
1948 - x86[_64]: SSSE3 support (SHA1, vector-permutation AES);
1949 - x86_64: bit-sliced AES implementation;
1950 - ARM: NEON support, contemporary platforms optimizations;
1951 - s390x: z196 support;
1952 - *: GHASH and GF(2^m) multiplication implementations;
1956 *) Make TLS-SRP code conformant with RFC 5054 API cleanup
1957 (removal of unnecessary code)
1958 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>]
1960 *) Add TLS key material exporter from RFC 5705.
1963 *) Add DTLS-SRTP negotiation from RFC 5764.
1966 *) Add Next Protocol Negotiation,
1967 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00. Can be
1968 disabled with a no-npn flag to config or Configure. Code donated
1970 [Adam Langley <agl@google.com> and Ben Laurie]
1972 *) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
1973 NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
1974 typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
1975 required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
1976 Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.
1978 Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
1979 line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
1980 "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:
1982 EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
1983 EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
1984 EC_GFp_nistp521_method()
1986 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
1987 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
1989 [Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
1991 *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
1992 all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
1993 header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
1996 *) New -sigopt option to the ca, req and x509 utilities. Additional
1997 signature parameters can be passed using this option and in
2001 *) Add RSA PSS signing function. This will generate and set the
2002 appropriate AlgorithmIdentifiers for PSS based on those in the
2003 corresponding EVP_MD_CTX structure. No application support yet.
2006 *) Support for companion algorithm specific ASN1 signing routines.
2007 New function ASN1_item_sign_ctx() signs a pre-initialised
2008 EVP_MD_CTX structure and sets AlgorithmIdentifiers based on
2009 the appropriate parameters.
2012 *) Add new algorithm specific ASN1 verification initialisation function
2013 to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD: this is not in EVP_PKEY_METHOD since the ASN1
2014 handling will be the same no matter what EVP_PKEY_METHOD is used.
2015 Add a PSS handler to support verification of PSS signatures: checked
2016 against a number of sample certificates.
2019 *) Add signature printing for PSS. Add PSS OIDs.
2020 [Steve Henson, Martin Kaiser <lists@kaiser.cx>]
2022 *) Add algorithm specific signature printing. An individual ASN1 method
2023 can now print out signatures instead of the standard hex dump.
2025 More complex signatures (e.g. PSS) can print out more meaningful
2026 information. Include DSA version that prints out the signature
2030 *) Password based recipient info support for CMS library: implementing
2034 *) Split password based encryption into PBES2 and PBKDF2 functions. This
2035 neatly separates the code into cipher and PBE sections and is required
2036 for some algorithms that split PBES2 into separate pieces (such as
2037 password based CMS).
2040 *) Session-handling fixes:
2041 - Fix handling of connections that are resuming with a session ID,
2042 but also support Session Tickets.
2043 - Fix a bug that suppressed issuing of a new ticket if the client
2044 presented a ticket with an expired session.
2045 - Try to set the ticket lifetime hint to something reasonable.
2046 - Make tickets shorter by excluding irrelevant information.
2047 - On the client side, don't ignore renewed tickets.
2048 [Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2050 *) Fix PSK session representation.
2053 *) Add RC4-MD5 and AESNI-SHA1 "stitched" implementations.
2055 This work was sponsored by Intel.
2058 *) Add GCM support to TLS library. Some custom code is needed to split
2059 the IV between the fixed (from PRF) and explicit (from TLS record)
2060 portions. This adds all GCM ciphersuites supported by RFC5288 and
2061 RFC5289. Generalise some AES* cipherstrings to inlclude GCM and
2062 add a special AESGCM string for GCM only.
2065 *) Expand range of ctrls for AES GCM. Permit setting invocation
2066 field on decrypt and retrieval of invocation field only on encrypt.
2069 *) Add HMAC ECC ciphersuites from RFC5289. Include SHA384 PRF support.
2070 As required by RFC5289 these ciphersuites cannot be used if for
2071 versions of TLS earlier than 1.2.
2074 *) For FIPS capable OpenSSL interpret a NULL default public key method
2075 as unset and return the appopriate default but do *not* set the default.
2076 This means we can return the appopriate method in applications that
2077 swicth between FIPS and non-FIPS modes.
2080 *) Redirect HMAC and CMAC operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. If an
2081 ENGINE is used then we cannot handle that in the FIPS module so we
2082 keep original code iff non-FIPS operations are allowed.
2085 *) Add -attime option to openssl utilities.
2086 [Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Ben Laurie and Steve Henson]
2088 *) Redirect DSA and DH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode.
2091 *) Redirect ECDSA and ECDH operations to FIPS module in FIPS mode. Also use
2092 FIPS EC methods unconditionally for now.
2095 *) New build option no-ec2m to disable characteristic 2 code.
2098 *) Backport libcrypto audit of return value checking from 1.1.0-dev; not
2099 all cases can be covered as some introduce binary incompatibilities.
2102 *) Redirect RSA operations to FIPS module including keygen,
2103 encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify. Block use of non FIPS RSA methods.
2106 *) Add similar low level API blocking to ciphers.
2109 *) Low level digest APIs are not approved in FIPS mode: any attempt
2110 to use these will cause a fatal error. Applications that *really* want
2111 to use them can use the private_* version instead.
2114 *) Redirect cipher operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2117 *) Redirect digest operations to FIPS module for FIPS builds.
2120 *) Update build system to add "fips" flag which will link in fipscanister.o
2121 for static and shared library builds embedding a signature if needed.
2124 *) Output TLS supported curves in preference order instead of numerical
2125 order. This is currently hardcoded for the highest order curves first.
2126 This should be configurable so applications can judge speed vs strength.
2129 *) Add TLS v1.2 server support for client authentication.
2132 *) Add support for FIPS mode in ssl library: disable SSLv3, non-FIPS ciphers
2136 *) Functions FIPS_mode_set() and FIPS_mode() which call the underlying
2137 FIPS modules versions.
2140 *) Add TLS v1.2 client side support for client authentication. Keep cache
2141 of handshake records longer as we don't know the hash algorithm to use
2142 until after the certificate request message is received.
2145 *) Initial TLS v1.2 client support. Add a default signature algorithms
2146 extension including all the algorithms we support. Parse new signature
2147 format in client key exchange. Relax some ECC signing restrictions for
2148 TLS v1.2 as indicated in RFC5246.
2151 *) Add server support for TLS v1.2 signature algorithms extension. Switch
2152 to new signature format when needed using client digest preference.
2153 All server ciphersuites should now work correctly in TLS v1.2. No client
2154 support yet and no support for client certificates.
2157 *) Initial TLS v1.2 support. Add new SHA256 digest to ssl code, switch
2158 to SHA256 for PRF when using TLS v1.2 and later. Add new SHA256 based
2159 ciphersuites. At present only RSA key exchange ciphersuites work with
2160 TLS v1.2. Add new option for TLS v1.2 replacing the old and obsolete
2161 SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK flags with SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2. New TLSv1.2 methods
2162 and version checking.
2165 *) New option OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN. If an application can be compiled
2166 with this defined it will not be affected by any changes to ssl internal
2167 structures. Add several utility functions to allow openssl application
2168 to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
2171 *) A long standing patch to add support for SRP from EdelWeb (Peter
2172 Sylvester and Christophe Renou) was integrated.
2173 [Christophe Renou <christophe.renou@edelweb.fr>, Peter Sylvester
2174 <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>, Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu>, and
2177 *) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
2180 *) Permit abbreviated handshakes when renegotiating using the function
2181 SSL_renegotiate_abbreviated().
2182 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>]
2184 *) Add call to ENGINE_register_all_complete() to
2185 ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(), so some implementations get used
2186 automatically instead of needing explicit application support.
2189 *) Add support for TLS key exporter as described in RFC5705.
2190 [Robin Seggelmann <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de>, Steve Henson]
2192 *) Initial TLSv1.1 support. Since TLSv1.1 is very similar to TLS v1.0 only
2193 a few changes are required:
2195 Add SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 flag.
2196 Add TLSv1_1 methods.
2197 Update version checking logic to handle version 1.1.
2198 Add explicit IV handling (ported from DTLS code).
2199 Add command line options to s_client/s_server.
2202 Changes between 1.0.0g and 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]
2204 *) Fix MMA (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) weakness
2205 in CMS and PKCS7 code. When RSA decryption fails use a random key for
2206 content decryption and always return the same error. Note: this attack
2207 needs on average 2^20 messages so it only affects automated senders. The
2208 old behaviour can be reenabled in the CMS code by setting the
2209 CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag: this is useful for debugging and testing where
2210 an MMA defence is not necessary.
2211 Thanks to Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering
2212 this issue. (CVE-2012-0884)
2215 *) Fix CVE-2011-4619: make sure we really are receiving a
2216 client hello before rejecting multiple SGC restarts. Thanks to
2217 Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com> for discovering this bug.
2220 Changes between 1.0.0f and 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]
2222 *) Fix for DTLS DoS issue introduced by fix for CVE-2011-4109.
2223 Thanks to Antonio Martin, Enterprise Secure Access Research and
2224 Development, Cisco Systems, Inc. for discovering this bug and
2225 preparing a fix. (CVE-2012-0050)
2228 Changes between 1.0.0e and 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]
2230 *) Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson have discovered an extension
2231 of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption
2232 which enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against
2233 the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. Their attack exploits timing
2234 differences arising during decryption processing. A research
2235 paper describing this attack can be found at:
2236 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf
2237 Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information
2238 Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
2239 (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and to Robin Seggelmann
2240 <seggelmann@fh-muenster.de> and Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
2241 for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4108)
2242 [Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tuexen]
2244 *) Clear bytes used for block padding of SSL 3.0 records.
2246 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2248 *) Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS. Thanks to George
2249 Kadianakis <desnacked@gmail.com> for discovering this issue and
2250 Adam Langley for preparing the fix. (CVE-2011-4619)
2251 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2253 *) Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE. (CVE-2012-0027)
2254 [Andrey Kulikov <amdeich@gmail.com>]
2256 *) Prevent malformed RFC3779 data triggering an assertion failure.
2257 Thanks to Andrew Chi, BBN Technologies, for discovering the flaw
2258 and Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> for fixing it. (CVE-2011-4577)
2259 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
2261 *) Improved PRNG seeding for VOS.
2262 [Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>]
2264 *) Fix ssl_ciph.c set-up race.
2265 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2267 *) Fix spurious failures in ecdsatest.c.
2268 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2270 *) Fix the BIO_f_buffer() implementation (which was mixing different
2271 interpretations of the '..._len' fields).
2272 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2274 *) Fix handling of BN_BLINDING: now BN_BLINDING_invert_ex (rather than
2275 BN_BLINDING_invert_ex) calls BN_BLINDING_update, ensuring that concurrent
2276 threads won't reuse the same blinding coefficients.
2278 This also avoids the need to obtain the CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA_BLINDING
2279 lock to call BN_BLINDING_invert_ex, and avoids one use of
2280 BN_BLINDING_update for each BN_BLINDING structure (previously,
2281 the last update always remained unused).
2282 [Emilia Käsper (Google)]
2284 *) In ssl3_clear, preserve s3->init_extra along with s3->rbuf.
2285 [Bob Buckholz (Google)]
2287 Changes between 1.0.0d and 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]
2289 *) Fix bug where CRLs with nextUpdate in the past are sometimes accepted
2290 by initialising X509_STORE_CTX properly. (CVE-2011-3207)
2291 [Kaspar Brand <ossl@velox.ch>]
2293 *) Fix SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites, in particular
2294 for multi-threaded use of ECDH. (CVE-2011-3210)
2295 [Adam Langley (Google)]
2297 *) Fix x509_name_ex_d2i memory leak on bad inputs.
2300 *) Remove hard coded ecdsaWithSHA1 signature tests in ssl code and check
2301 signature public key algorithm by using OID xref utilities instead.
2302 Before this you could only use some ECC ciphersuites with SHA1 only.
2305 *) Add protection against ECDSA timing attacks as mentioned in the paper
2306 by Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri, see:
2308 http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf
2310 [Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri]
2312 Changes between 1.0.0c and 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]
2314 *) Fix parsing of OCSP stapling ClientHello extension. CVE-2011-0014
2315 [Neel Mehta, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
2317 *) Fix bug in string printing code: if *any* escaping is enabled we must
2318 escape the escape character (backslash) or the resulting string is
2322 Changes between 1.0.0b and 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]
2324 *) Disable code workaround for ancient and obsolete Netscape browsers
2325 and servers: an attacker can use it in a ciphersuite downgrade attack.
2326 Thanks to Martin Rex for discovering this bug. CVE-2010-4180
2329 *) Fixed J-PAKE implementation error, originally discovered by
2330 Sebastien Martini, further info and confirmation from Stefan
2331 Arentz and Feng Hao. Note that this fix is a security fix. CVE-2010-4252
2334 Changes between 1.0.0a and 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]
2336 *) Fix extension code to avoid race conditions which can result in a buffer
2337 overrun vulnerability: resumed sessions must not be modified as they can
2338 be shared by multiple threads. CVE-2010-3864
2341 *) Fix WIN32 build system to correctly link an ENGINE directory into
2345 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.0a [01 Jun 2010]
2347 *) Check return value of int_rsa_verify in pkey_rsa_verifyrecover
2349 [Steve Henson, Peter-Michael Hager <hager@dortmund.net>]
2351 Changes between 0.9.8n and 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]
2353 *) Add "missing" function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy(). This copies a cipher
2354 context. The operation can be customised via the ctrl mechanism in
2355 case ENGINEs want to include additional functionality.
2358 *) Tolerate yet another broken PKCS#8 key format: private key value negative.
2361 *) Add new -subject_hash_old and -issuer_hash_old options to x509 utility to
2362 output hashes compatible with older versions of OpenSSL.
2363 [Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]
2365 *) Fix compression algorithm handling: if resuming a session use the
2366 compression algorithm of the resumed session instead of determining
2367 it from client hello again. Don't allow server to change algorithm.
2370 *) Add load_crls() function to apps tidying load_certs() too. Add option
2371 to verify utility to allow additional CRLs to be included.
2374 *) Update OCSP request code to permit adding custom headers to the request:
2375 some responders need this.
2378 *) The function EVP_PKEY_sign() returns <=0 on error: check return code
2380 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
2382 *) Update verify callback code in apps/s_cb.c and apps/verify.c, it
2383 needlessly dereferenced structures, used obsolete functions and
2384 didn't handle all updated verify codes correctly.
2387 *) Disable MD2 in the default configuration.
2390 *) In BIO_pop() and BIO_push() use the ctrl argument (which was NULL) to
2391 indicate the initial BIO being pushed or popped. This makes it possible
2392 to determine whether the BIO is the one explicitly called or as a result
2393 of the ctrl being passed down the chain. Fix BIO_pop() and SSL BIOs so
2394 it handles reference counts correctly and doesn't zero out the I/O bio
2395 when it is not being explicitly popped. WARNING: applications which
2396 included workarounds for the old buggy behaviour will need to be modified
2397 or they could free up already freed BIOs.
2400 *) Extend the uni2asc/asc2uni => OPENSSL_uni2asc/OPENSSL_asc2uni
2401 renaming to all platforms (within the 0.9.8 branch, this was
2402 done conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name clash).
2403 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
2405 *) Add ECDHE and PSK support to DTLS.
2406 [Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>]
2408 *) Add CHECKED_STACK_OF macro to safestack.h, otherwise safestack can't
2412 *) Add "missing" function EVP_MD_flags() (without this the only way to
2413 retrieve a digest flags is by accessing the structure directly. Update
2414 EVP_MD_do_all*() and EVP_CIPHER_do_all*() to include the name a digest
2415 or cipher is registered as in the "from" argument. Print out all
2416 registered digests in the dgst usage message instead of manually
2417 attempting to work them out.
2420 *) If no SSLv2 ciphers are used don't use an SSLv2 compatible client hello:
2421 this allows the use of compression and extensions. Change default cipher
2422 string to remove SSLv2 ciphersuites. This effectively avoids ancient SSLv2
2423 by default unless an application cipher string requests it.
2426 *) Alter match criteria in PKCS12_parse(). It used to try to use local
2427 key ids to find matching certificates and keys but some PKCS#12 files
2428 don't follow the (somewhat unwritten) rules and this strategy fails.
2429 Now just gather all certificates together and the first private key
2430 then look for the first certificate that matches the key.
2433 *) Support use of registered digest and cipher names for dgst and cipher
2434 commands instead of having to add each one as a special case. So now
2441 openssl dgst -sha256 foo
2443 and this works for ENGINE based algorithms too.
2447 *) Update Gost ENGINE to support parameter files.
2448 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
2450 *) Support GeneralizedTime in ca utility.
2451 [Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>, Steve Henson]
2453 *) Enhance the hash format used for certificate directory links. The new
2454 form uses the canonical encoding (meaning equivalent names will work
2455 even if they aren't identical) and uses SHA1 instead of MD5. This form
2456 is incompatible with the older format and as a result c_rehash should
2457 be used to rebuild symbolic links.
2460 *) Make PKCS#8 the default write format for private keys, replacing the
2461 traditional format. This form is standardised, more secure and doesn't
2462 include an implicit MD5 dependency.
2465 *) Add a $gcc_devteam_warn option to Configure. The idea is that any code
2466 committed to OpenSSL should pass this lot as a minimum.
2469 *) Add session ticket override functionality for use by EAP-FAST.
2470 [Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]
2472 *) Modify HMAC functions to return a value. Since these can be implemented
2473 in an ENGINE errors can occur.
2476 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch_ex.
2479 *) Type-checked OBJ_bsearch. Also some constification necessitated
2480 by type-checking. Still to come: TXT_DB, bsearch(?),
2481 OBJ_bsearch_ex, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE, ASN1_STRING,
2485 *) New function OPENSSL_gmtime_adj() to add a specific number of days and
2486 seconds to a tm structure directly, instead of going through OS
2487 specific date routines. This avoids any issues with OS routines such
2488 as the year 2038 bug. New *_adj() functions for ASN1 time structures
2489 and X509_time_adj_ex() to cover the extended range. The existing
2490 X509_time_adj() is still usable and will no longer have any date issues.
2493 *) Delta CRL support. New use deltas option which will attempt to locate
2494 and search any appropriate delta CRLs available.
2496 This work was sponsored by Google.
2499 *) Support for CRLs partitioned by reason code. Reorganise CRL processing
2500 code and add additional score elements. Validate alternate CRL paths
2501 as part of the CRL checking and indicate a new error "CRL path validation
2502 error" in this case. Applications wanting additional details can use
2503 the verify callback and check the new "parent" field. If this is not
2504 NULL CRL path validation is taking place. Existing applications wont
2505 see this because it requires extended CRL support which is off by
2508 This work was sponsored by Google.
2511 *) Support for freshest CRL extension.
2513 This work was sponsored by Google.
2516 *) Initial indirect CRL support. Currently only supported in the CRLs
2517 passed directly and not via lookup. Process certificate issuer
2518 CRL entry extension and lookup CRL entries by bother issuer name
2519 and serial number. Check and process CRL issuer entry in IDP extension.
2521 This work was sponsored by Google.
2524 *) Add support for distinct certificate and CRL paths. The CRL issuer
2525 certificate is validated separately in this case. Only enabled if
2526 an extended CRL support flag is set: this flag will enable additional
2527 CRL functionality in future.
2529 This work was sponsored by Google.
2532 *) Add support for policy mappings extension.
2534 This work was sponsored by Google.
2537 *) Fixes to pathlength constraint, self issued certificate handling,
2538 policy processing to align with RFC3280 and PKITS tests.
2540 This work was sponsored by Google.
2543 *) Support for name constraints certificate extension. DN, email, DNS
2544 and URI types are currently supported.
2546 This work was sponsored by Google.
2549 *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather
2550 than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and
2551 replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This
2552 mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in
2553 either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long',
2554 mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it
2555 can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno"
2556 as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads.
2558 Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use
2559 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call
2560 either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer().
2562 Note that ERR_remove_state() is now deprecated, because it is tied
2563 to the assumption that thread IDs are numeric. ERR_remove_state(0)
2564 to free the current thread's error state should be replaced by
2565 ERR_remove_thread_state(NULL).
2567 (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(),
2568 CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in
2569 OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an
2570 application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that
2571 was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might
2572 have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the
2573 intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the
2574 case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use
2576 [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller]
2578 *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a
2579 simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and
2580 the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain.
2582 This work was sponsored by Google.
2585 *) Removed effectively defunct crypto/store from the build.
2588 *) Revamp of STACK to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
2589 TXT_DB, bsearch(?), OBJ_bsearch, qsort, CRYPTO_EX_DATA, ASN1_VALUE,
2590 ASN1_STRING, CONF_VALUE.
2593 *) Add a new SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode flag to release unused buffer
2594 RAM on SSL connections. This option can save about 34k per idle SSL.
2597 *) Revamp of LHASH to provide stronger type-checking. Still to come:
2598 STACK, TXT_DB, bsearch, qsort.
2601 *) Initial support for Cryptographic Message Syntax (aka CMS) based
2602 on RFC3850, RFC3851 and RFC3852. New cms directory and cms utility,
2603 support for data, signedData, compressedData, digestedData and
2604 encryptedData, envelopedData types included. Scripts to check against
2605 RFC4134 examples draft and interop and consistency checks of many
2606 content types and variants.
2609 *) Add options to enc utility to support use of zlib compression BIO.
2612 *) Extend mk1mf to support importing of options and assembly language
2613 files from Configure script, currently only included in VC-WIN32.
2614 The assembly language rules can now optionally generate the source
2615 files from the associated perl scripts.
2618 *) Implement remaining functionality needed to support GOST ciphersuites.
2619 Interop testing has been performed using CryptoPro implementations.
2620 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
2622 *) s390x assembler pack.
2625 *) ARMv4 assembler pack. ARMv4 refers to v4 and later ISA, not CPU
2629 *) Implement Opaque PRF Input TLS extension as specified in
2630 draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input-00.txt. Since this is not an
2631 official specification yet and no extension type assignment by
2632 IANA exists, this extension (for now) will have to be explicitly
2633 enabled when building OpenSSL by providing the extension number
2634 to use. For example, specify an option
2636 -DTLSEXT_TYPE_opaque_prf_input=0x9527
2638 to the "config" or "Configure" script to enable the extension,
2639 assuming extension number 0x9527 (which is a completely arbitrary
2640 and unofficial assignment based on the MD5 hash of the Internet
2641 Draft). Note that by doing so, you potentially lose
2642 interoperability with other TLS implementations since these might
2643 be using the same extension number for other purposes.
2645 SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input(ssl, src, len) is used to set the
2646 opaque PRF input value to use in the handshake. This will create
2647 an interal copy of the length-'len' string at 'src', and will
2648 return non-zero for success.
2650 To get more control and flexibility, provide a callback function
2653 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback(ctx, cb)
2654 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
2658 int (*cb)(SSL *, void *peerinput, size_t len, void *arg);
2661 Callback function 'cb' will be called in handshakes, and is
2662 expected to use SSL_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input() as appropriate.
2663 Argument 'arg' is for application purposes (the value as given to
2664 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_opaque_prf_input_callback_arg() will directly
2665 be provided to the callback function). The callback function
2666 has to return non-zero to report success: usually 1 to use opaque
2667 PRF input just if possible, or 2 to enforce use of the opaque PRF
2668 input. In the latter case, the library will abort the handshake
2669 if opaque PRF input is not successfully negotiated.
2671 Arguments 'peerinput' and 'len' given to the callback function
2672 will always be NULL and 0 in the case of a client. A server will
2673 see the client's opaque PRF input through these variables if
2674 available (NULL and 0 otherwise). Note that if the server
2675 provides an opaque PRF input, the length must be the same as the
2676 length of the client's opaque PRF input.
2678 Note that the callback function will only be called when creating
2679 a new session (session resumption can resume whatever was
2680 previously negotiated), and will not be called in SSL 2.0
2681 handshakes; thus, SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) or
2682 SSL_set_options(ssl, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2) is especially recommended
2683 for applications that need to enforce opaque PRF input.
2687 *) Update ssl code to support digests other than SHA1+MD5 for handshake
2690 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>]
2692 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
2693 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
2694 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
2697 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
2698 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
2701 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
2702 protection in servers so again support should be possible
2703 with no application modification.
2705 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
2706 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
2708 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
2709 or server extensions to be examined.
2711 This work was sponsored by Google.
2714 *) Final changes to avoid use of pointer pointer casts in OpenSSL.
2715 OpenSSL should now compile cleanly on gcc 4.2
2716 [Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>, Steve Henson]
2718 *) Update SSL library to use new EVP_PKEY MAC API. Include generic MAC
2719 support including streaming MAC support: this is required for GOST
2720 ciphersuite support.
2721 [Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>, Steve Henson]
2723 *) Add option -stream to use PKCS#7 streaming in smime utility. New
2724 function i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream() and PEM_write_PKCS7_bio_stream()
2725 to output in BER and PEM format.
2728 *) Experimental support for use of HMAC via EVP_PKEY interface. This
2729 allows HMAC to be handled via the EVP_DigestSign*() interface. The
2730 EVP_PKEY "key" in this case is the HMAC key, potentially allowing
2731 ENGINE support for HMAC keys which are unextractable. New -mac and
2732 -macopt options to dgst utility.
2735 *) New option -sigopt to dgst utility. Update dgst to use
2736 EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}*. These two changes make it possible to use
2737 alternative signing paramaters such as X9.31 or PSS in the dgst
2741 *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
2742 the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
2743 ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
2744 removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
2745 the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
2746 that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
2747 in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
2748 than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
2751 This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
2752 the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
2753 order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
2754 most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
2756 Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
2757 funcionality) such that between otherwise identical
2758 cihpersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
2762 *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
2763 arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
2764 to process the rule string. Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
2765 (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
2766 remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
2767 This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
2768 in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
2769 that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
2770 [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
2772 *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
2773 processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
2774 "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
2775 "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
2776 (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
2777 away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
2778 change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
2779 affect applications.) This give us more bits for each of these
2780 categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
2781 AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
2782 and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
2785 Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
2786 0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
2787 out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
2789 With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
2790 so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
2794 *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
2795 Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
2796 larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
2799 *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
2800 it yet and it is largely untested.
2803 *) Add support for the ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
2806 *) Initial incomplete changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL
2807 some compilers (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use. Safestack is
2808 reimplemented. Update ASN1 to avoid use of legacy functions.
2811 *) Win32/64 targets are linked with Winsock2.
2814 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
2815 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
2816 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
2817 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
2820 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
2821 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
2822 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
2823 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
2824 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
2827 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
2828 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
2831 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
2832 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
2833 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
2834 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
2837 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
2838 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
2839 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
2840 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
2843 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
2844 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
2847 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
2848 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
2849 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
2850 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
2853 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
2854 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
2855 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
2858 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
2862 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
2863 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
2866 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
2867 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
2868 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
2872 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
2873 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
2874 to free up any added signature OIDs.
2877 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
2878 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
2879 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
2880 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
2883 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
2884 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
2885 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
2886 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
2887 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
2888 the array representation useful in a more general context.
2891 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
2892 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
2893 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
2894 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
2895 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
2897 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
2898 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
2899 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
2900 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
2901 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
2904 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
2905 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
2906 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
2907 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case:
2909 kECDHr - ECDH cert, signed with RSA
2910 kECDHe - ECDH cert, signed with ECDSA
2911 kECDH - ECDH cert (signed with either RSA or ECDSA)
2912 kEECDH - ephemeral ECDH
2913 ECDH - ECDH cert or ephemeral ECDH
2919 AECDH - anonymous ECDH
2920 EECDH - non-anonymous ephemeral ECDH (equivalent to "kEECDH:-AECDH")
2924 *) Add additional S/MIME capabilities for AES and GOST ciphers if supported.
2925 Use correct micalg parameters depending on digest(s) in signed message.
2928 *) Add engine support for EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. Add functions to process
2929 an ENGINE asn1 method. Support ENGINE lookups in the ASN1 code.
2932 *) Initial engine support for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. New functions to permit
2933 an engine to register a method. Add ENGINE lookups for methods and
2934 functional reference processing.
2937 *) New functions EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify)*. These are enchance versions of
2938 EVP_{Sign,Verify}* which allow an application to customise the signature
2942 *) New -resign option to smime utility. This adds one or more signers
2943 to an existing PKCS#7 signedData structure. Also -md option to use an
2944 alternative message digest algorithm for signing.
2947 *) Tidy up PKCS#7 routines and add new functions to make it easier to
2948 create PKCS7 structures containing multiple signers. Update smime
2949 application to support multiple signers.
2952 *) New -macalg option to pkcs12 utility to allow setting of an alternative
2956 *) Initial support for PKCS#5 v2.0 PRFs other than default SHA1 HMAC.
2957 Reorganize PBE internals to lookup from a static table using NIDs,
2958 add support for HMAC PBE OID translation. Add a EVP_CIPHER ctrl:
2959 EVP_CTRL_PBE_PRF_NID this allows a cipher to specify an alternative
2960 PRF which will be automatically used with PBES2.
2963 *) Replace the algorithm specific calls to generate keys in "req" with the
2967 *) Update PKCS#7 enveloped data routines to use new API. This is now
2968 supported by any public key method supporting the encrypt operation. A
2969 ctrl is added to allow the public key algorithm to examine or modify
2970 the PKCS#7 RecipientInfo structure if it needs to: for RSA this is
2974 *) Add a ctrl to asn1 method to allow a public key algorithm to express
2975 a default digest type to use. In most cases this will be SHA1 but some
2976 algorithms (such as GOST) need to specify an alternative digest. The
2977 return value indicates how strong the prefernce is 1 means optional and
2978 2 is mandatory (that is it is the only supported type). Modify
2979 ASN1_item_sign() to accept a NULL digest argument to indicate it should
2980 use the default md. Update openssl utilities to use the default digest
2981 type for signing if it is not explicitly indicated.
2984 *) Use OID cross reference table in ASN1_sign() and ASN1_verify(). New
2985 EVP_MD flag EVP_MD_FLAG_PKEY_METHOD_SIGNATURE. This uses the relevant
2986 signing method from the key type. This effectively removes the link
2987 between digests and public key types.
2990 *) Add an OID cross reference table and utility functions. Its purpose is to
2991 translate between signature OIDs such as SHA1WithrsaEncryption and SHA1,
2992 rsaEncryption. This will allow some of the algorithm specific hackery
2993 needed to use the correct OID to be removed.
2996 *) Remove algorithm specific dependencies when setting PKCS7_SIGNER_INFO
2997 structures for PKCS7_sign(). They are now set up by the relevant public
3001 *) Add provisional EC pkey method with support for ECDSA and ECDH.
3004 *) Add support for key derivation (agreement) in the API, DH method and
3008 *) Add DSA pkey method and DH pkey methods, extend DH ASN1 method to support
3009 public and private key formats. As a side effect these add additional
3010 command line functionality not previously available: DSA signatures can be
3011 generated and verified using pkeyutl and DH key support and generation in
3016 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
3018 *) New make target "install_html_docs" installs HTML renditions of the
3020 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
3022 *) New utility "genpkey" this is analagous to "genrsa" etc except it can
3023 generate keys for any algorithm. Extend and update EVP_PKEY_METHOD to
3024 support key and parameter generation and add initial key generation
3025 functionality for RSA.
3028 *) Add functions for main EVP_PKEY_method operations. The undocumented
3029 functions EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt} have been renamed to
3030 EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt}_old.
3033 *) Initial definitions for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. This will be a high level public
3034 key API, doesn't do much yet.
3037 *) New function EVP_PKEY_asn1_get0_info() to retrieve information about
3038 public key algorithms. New option to openssl utility:
3039 "list-public-key-algorithms" to print out info.
3042 *) Implement the Supported Elliptic Curves Extension for
3043 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
3046 *) Don't free up OIDs in OBJ_cleanup() if they are in use by EVP_MD or
3047 EVP_CIPHER structures to avoid later problems in EVP_cleanup().
3050 *) New utilities pkey and pkeyparam. These are similar to algorithm specific
3051 utilities such as rsa, dsa, dsaparam etc except they process any key
3055 *) Transfer public key printing routines to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. New
3056 functions EVP_PKEY_print_public(), EVP_PKEY_print_private(),
3057 EVP_PKEY_print_param() to print public key data from an EVP_PKEY
3061 *) Initial support for pluggable public key ASN1.
3062 De-spaghettify the public key ASN1 handling. Move public and private
3063 key ASN1 handling to a new EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD structure. Relocate
3064 algorithm specific handling to a single module within the relevant
3065 algorithm directory. Add functions to allow (near) opaque processing
3066 of public and private key structures.
3069 *) Implement the Supported Point Formats Extension for
3070 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
3073 *) Add initial support for RFC 4279 PSK TLS ciphersuites. Add members
3074 for the psk identity [hint] and the psk callback functions to the
3075 SSL_SESSION, SSL and SSL_CTX structure.
3078 PSK-RC4-SHA, PSK-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA, PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA,
3082 SSL_CTX_use_psk_identity_hint
3083 SSL_get_psk_identity_hint
3084 SSL_get_psk_identity
3085 SSL_use_psk_identity_hint
3087 [Mika Kousa and Pasi Eronen of Nokia Corporation]
3089 *) Add RFC 3161 compliant time stamp request creation, response generation
3090 and response verification functionality.
3091 [Zoltán Glózik <zglozik@opentsa.org>, The OpenTSA Project]
3093 *) Add initial support for TLS extensions, specifically for the server_name
3094 extension so far. The SSL_SESSION, SSL_CTX, and SSL data structures now
3095 have new members for a host name. The SSL data structure has an
3096 additional member SSL_CTX *initial_ctx so that new sessions can be
3097 stored in that context to allow for session resumption, even after the
3098 SSL has been switched to a new SSL_CTX in reaction to a client's
3099 server_name extension.
3101 New functions (subject to change):
3103 SSL_get_servername()
3104 SSL_get_servername_type()
3107 New CTRL codes and macros (subject to change):
3109 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_CB
3110 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback()
3111 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_ARG
3112 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg()
3113 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME - SSL_set_tlsext_host_name()
3115 openssl s_client has a new '-servername ...' option.
3117 openssl s_server has new options '-servername_host ...', '-cert2 ...',
3118 '-key2 ...', '-servername_fatal' (subject to change). This allows
3119 testing the HostName extension for a specific single host name ('-cert'
3120 and '-key' remain fallbacks for handshakes without HostName
3121 negotiation). If the unrecogninzed_name alert has to be sent, this by
3122 default is a warning; it becomes fatal with the '-servername_fatal'
3125 [Peter Sylvester, Remy Allais, Christophe Renou]
3127 *) Whirlpool hash implementation is added.
3130 *) BIGNUM code on 64-bit SPARCv9 targets is switched from bn(64,64) to
3131 bn(64,32). Because of instruction set limitations it doesn't have
3132 any negative impact on performance. This was done mostly in order
3133 to make it possible to share assembler modules, such as bn_mul_mont
3134 implementations, between 32- and 64-bit builds without hassle.
3137 *) Move code previously exiled into file crypto/ec/ec2_smpt.c
3138 to ec2_smpl.c, and no longer require the OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP
3142 *) New candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation, bn_mul_mont,
3143 dedicated Montgomery multiplication procedure, is introduced.
3144 BN_MONT_CTX is modified to allow bn_mul_mont to reach for higher
3145 "64-bit" performance on certain 32-bit targets.
3148 *) New option SSL_OP_NO_COMP to disable use of compression selectively
3149 in SSL structures. New SSL ctrl to set maximum send fragment size.
3150 Save memory by seeting the I/O buffer sizes dynamically instead of
3151 using the maximum available value.
3154 *) New option -V for 'openssl ciphers'. This prints the ciphersuite code
3155 in addition to the text details.
3158 *) Very, very preliminary EXPERIMENTAL support for printing of general
3159 ASN1 structures. This currently produces rather ugly output and doesn't
3160 handle several customised structures at all.
3163 *) Integrated support for PVK file format and some related formats such
3164 as MS PUBLICKEYBLOB and PRIVATEKEYBLOB. Command line switches to support
3165 these in the 'rsa' and 'dsa' utilities.
3168 *) Support for PKCS#1 RSAPublicKey format on rsa utility command line.
3171 *) Remove the ancient ASN1_METHOD code. This was only ever used in one
3172 place for the (very old) "NETSCAPE" format certificates which are now
3173 handled using new ASN1 code equivalents.
3176 *) Let the TLSv1_method() etc. functions return a 'const' SSL_METHOD
3177 pointer and make the SSL_METHOD parameter in SSL_CTX_new,
3178 SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version and SSL_set_ssl_method 'const'.
3181 *) Modify CRL distribution points extension code to print out previously
3182 unsupported fields. Enhance extension setting code to allow setting of
3186 *) Add print and set support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension.
3189 *) Change 'Configure' script to enable Camellia by default.
3192 Changes between 0.9.8m and 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]
3194 *) When rejecting SSL/TLS records due to an incorrect version number, never
3195 update s->server with a new major version number. As of
3196 - OpenSSL 0.9.8m if 'short' is a 16-bit type,
3197 - OpenSSL 0.9.8f if 'short' is longer than 16 bits,
3198 the previous behavior could result in a read attempt at NULL when
3199 receiving specific incorrect SSL/TLS records once record payload
3200 protection is active. (CVE-2010-0740)
3201 [Bodo Moeller, Adam Langley <agl@chromium.org>]
3203 *) Fix for CVE-2010-0433 where some kerberos enabled versions of OpenSSL
3204 could be crashed if the relevant tables were not present (e.g. chrooted).
3205 [Tomas Hoger <thoger@redhat.com>]
3207 Changes between 0.9.8l and 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]
3209 *) Always check bn_wexpend() return values for failure. (CVE-2009-3245)
3210 [Martin Olsson, Neel Mehta]
3212 *) Fix X509_STORE locking: Every 'objs' access requires a lock (to
3213 accommodate for stack sorting, always a write lock!).
3216 *) On some versions of WIN32 Heap32Next is very slow. This can cause
3217 excessive delays in the RAND_poll(): over a minute. As a workaround
3218 include a time check in the inner Heap32Next loop too.
3221 *) The code that handled flushing of data in SSL/TLS originally used the
3222 BIO_CTRL_INFO ctrl to see if any data was pending first. This caused
3223 the problem outlined in PR#1949. The fix suggested there however can
3224 trigger problems with buggy BIO_CTRL_WPENDING (e.g. some versions
3225 of Apache). So instead simplify the code to flush unconditionally.
3226 This should be fine since flushing with no data to flush is a no op.
3229 *) Handle TLS versions 2.0 and later properly and correctly use the
3230 highest version of TLS/SSL supported. Although TLS >= 2.0 is some way
3231 off ancient servers have a habit of sticking around for a while...
3234 *) Modify compression code so it frees up structures without using the
3235 ex_data callbacks. This works around a problem where some applications
3236 call CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data() before application exit (e.g. when
3237 restarting) then use compression (e.g. SSL with compression) later.
3238 This results in significant per-connection memory leaks and
3239 has caused some security issues including CVE-2008-1678 and
3243 *) Constify crypto/cast (i.e., <openssl/cast.h>): a CAST_KEY doesn't
3244 change when encrypting or decrypting.
3247 *) Add option SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT which will allow clients to
3248 connect and renegotiate with servers which do not support RI.
3249 Until RI is more widely deployed this option is enabled by default.
3252 *) Add "missing" ssl ctrls to clear options and mode.
3255 *) If client attempts to renegotiate and doesn't support RI respond with
3256 a no_renegotiation alert as required by RFC5746. Some renegotiating
3257 TLS clients will continue a connection gracefully when they receive
3258 the alert. Unfortunately OpenSSL mishandled this alert and would hang
3259 waiting for a server hello which it will never receive. Now we treat a
3260 received no_renegotiation alert as a fatal error. This is because
3261 applications requesting a renegotiation might well expect it to succeed
3262 and would have no code in place to handle the server denying it so the
3263 only safe thing to do is to terminate the connection.
3266 *) Add ctrl macro SSL_get_secure_renegotiation_support() which returns 1 if
3267 peer supports secure renegotiation and 0 otherwise. Print out peer
3268 renegotiation support in s_client/s_server.
3271 *) Replace the highly broken and deprecated SPKAC certification method with
3272 the updated NID creation version. This should correctly handle UTF8.
3275 *) Implement RFC5746. Re-enable renegotiation but require the extension
3276 as needed. Unfortunately, SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION
3277 turns out to be a bad idea. It has been replaced by
3278 SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION which can be set with
3279 SSL_CTX_set_options(). This is really not recommended unless you
3280 know what you are doing.
3281 [Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>, Ben Laurie, Steve Henson]
3283 *) Fixes to stateless session resumption handling. Use initial_ctx when
3284 issuing and attempting to decrypt tickets in case it has changed during
3285 servername handling. Use a non-zero length session ID when attempting
3286 stateless session resumption: this makes it possible to determine if
3287 a resumption has occurred immediately after receiving server hello
3288 (several places in OpenSSL subtly assume this) instead of later in
3292 *) The functions ENGINE_ctrl(), OPENSSL_isservice(),
3293 CMS_get1_RecipientRequest() and RAND_bytes() can return <=0 on error
3294 fixes for a few places where the return code is not checked
3296 [Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]
3298 *) Add --strict-warnings option to Configure script to include devteam
3299 warnings in other configurations.
3302 *) Add support for --libdir option and LIBDIR variable in makefiles. This
3303 makes it possible to install openssl libraries in locations which
3304 have names other than "lib", for example "/usr/lib64" which some
3306 [Steve Henson, based on patch from Jeremy Utley]
3308 *) Don't allow the use of leading 0x80 in OIDs. This is a violation of
3309 X690 8.9.12 and can produce some misleading textual output of OIDs.
3310 [Steve Henson, reported by Dan Kaminsky]
3312 *) Delete MD2 from algorithm tables. This follows the recommendation in
3313 several standards that it is not used in new applications due to
3314 several cryptographic weaknesses. For binary compatibility reasons
3315 the MD2 API is still compiled in by default.
3318 *) Add compression id to {d2i,i2d}_SSL_SESSION so it is correctly saved
3322 *) Rename uni2asc and asc2uni functions to OPENSSL_uni2asc and
3323 OPENSSL_asc2uni conditionally on Netware platforms to avoid a name
3325 [Guenter <lists@gknw.net>]
3327 *) Fix the server certificate chain building code to use X509_verify_cert(),
3328 it used to have an ad-hoc builder which was unable to cope with anything
3329 other than a simple chain.
3330 [David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Steve Henson]
3332 *) Don't check self signed certificate signatures in X509_verify_cert()
3333 by default (a flag can override this): it just wastes time without
3334 adding any security. As a useful side effect self signed root CAs
3335 with non-FIPS digests are now usable in FIPS mode.
3338 *) In dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message() the check if the current message
3339 is already buffered was missing. For every new message was memory
3340 allocated, allowing an attacker to perform an denial of service attack
3341 with sending out of seq handshake messages until there is no memory
3342 left. Additionally every future messege was buffered, even if the
3343 sequence number made no sense and would be part of another handshake.
3344 So only messages with sequence numbers less than 10 in advance will be
3345 buffered. (CVE-2009-1378)
3346 [Robin Seggelmann, discovered by Daniel Mentz]
3348 *) Records are buffered if they arrive with a future epoch to be
3349 processed after finishing the corresponding handshake. There is
3350 currently no limitation to this buffer allowing an attacker to perform
3351 a DOS attack with sending records with future epochs until there is no
3352 memory left. This patch adds the pqueue_size() function to detemine
3353 the size of a buffer and limits the record buffer to 100 entries.
3355 [Robin Seggelmann, discovered by Daniel Mentz]
3357 *) Keep a copy of frag->msg_header.frag_len so it can be used after the
3358 parent structure is freed. (CVE-2009-1379)
3361 *) Handle non-blocking I/O properly in SSL_shutdown() call.
3362 [Darryl Miles <darryl-mailinglists@netbauds.net>]
3365 [Ilya O. <vrghost@gmail.com>]
3367 Changes between 0.9.8k and 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]
3369 *) Disable renegotiation completely - this fixes a severe security
3370 problem (CVE-2009-3555) at the cost of breaking all
3371 renegotiation. Renegotiation can be re-enabled by setting
3372 SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION in s3->flags at
3373 run-time. This is really not recommended unless you know what
3377 Changes between 0.9.8j and 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]
3379 *) Don't set val to NULL when freeing up structures, it is freed up by
3380 underlying code. If sizeof(void *) > sizeof(long) this can result in
3381 zeroing past the valid field. (CVE-2009-0789)
3382 [Paolo Ganci <Paolo.Ganci@AdNovum.CH>]
3384 *) Fix bug where return value of CMS_SignerInfo_verify_content() was not
3385 checked correctly. This would allow some invalid signed attributes to
3386 appear to verify correctly. (CVE-2009-0591)
3387 [Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com>]
3389 *) Reject UniversalString and BMPString types with invalid lengths. This
3390 prevents a crash in ASN1_STRING_print_ex() which assumes the strings have
3391 a legal length. (CVE-2009-0590)
3394 *) Set S/MIME signing as the default purpose rather than setting it
3395 unconditionally. This allows applications to override it at the store
3399 *) Permit restricted recursion of ASN1 strings. This is needed in practice
3400 to handle some structures.
3403 *) Improve efficiency of mem_gets: don't search whole buffer each time
3405 [Jeremy Shapiro <jnshapir@us.ibm.com>]
3407 *) New -hex option for openssl rand.
3410 *) Print out UTF8String and NumericString when parsing ASN1.
3413 *) Support NumericString type for name components.
3416 *) Allow CC in the environment to override the automatically chosen
3417 compiler. Note that nothing is done to ensure flags work with the
3421 Changes between 0.9.8i and 0.9.8j [07 Jan 2009]
3423 *) Properly check EVP_VerifyFinal() and similar return values
3425 [Ben Laurie, Bodo Moeller, Google Security Team]
3427 *) Enable TLS extensions by default.
3430 *) Allow the CHIL engine to be loaded, whether the application is
3431 multithreaded or not. (This does not release the developer from the
3432 obligation to set up the dynamic locking callbacks.)
3433 [Sander Temme <sander@temme.net>]
3435 *) Use correct exit code if there is an error in dgst command.
3436 [Steve Henson; problem pointed out by Roland Dirlewanger]
3438 *) Tweak Configure so that you need to say "experimental-jpake" to enable
3439 JPAKE, and need to use -DOPENSSL_EXPERIMENTAL_JPAKE in applications.
3442 *) Add experimental JPAKE support, including demo authentication in
3443 s_client and s_server.
3446 *) Set the comparison function in v3_addr_canonize().
3447 [Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]
3449 *) Add support for XMPP STARTTLS in s_client.
3450 [Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>]
3452 *) Change the server-side SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG behavior
3453 to ensure that even with this option, only ciphersuites in the
3454 server's preference list will be accepted. (Note that the option
3455 applies only when resuming a session, so the earlier behavior was
3456 just about the algorithm choice for symmetric cryptography.)
3459 Changes between 0.9.8h and 0.9.8i [15 Sep 2008]
3461 *) Fix NULL pointer dereference if a DTLS server received
3462 ChangeCipherSpec as first record (CVE-2009-1386).
3465 *) Fix a state transitition in s3_srvr.c and d1_srvr.c
3466 (was using SSL3_ST_CW_CLNT_HELLO_B, should be ..._ST_SW_SRVR_...).
3469 *) The fix in 0.9.8c that supposedly got rid of unsafe
3470 double-checked locking was incomplete for RSA blinding,
3471 addressing just one layer of what turns out to have been
3472 doubly unsafe triple-checked locking.
3474 So now fix this for real by retiring the MONT_HELPER macro
3475 in crypto/rsa/rsa_eay.c.
3477 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Marius Schilder]
3479 *) Various precautionary measures:
3481 - Avoid size_t integer overflow in HASH_UPDATE (md32_common.h).
3483 - Avoid a buffer overflow in d2i_SSL_SESSION() (ssl_asn1.c).
3484 (NB: This would require knowledge of the secret session ticket key
3485 to exploit, in which case you'd be SOL either way.)
3487 - Change bn_nist.c so that it will properly handle input BIGNUMs
3488 outside the expected range.
3490 - Enforce the 'num' check in BN_div() (bn_div.c) for non-BN_DEBUG
3493 [Neel Mehta, Bodo Moeller]
3495 *) Allow engines to be "soft loaded" - i.e. optionally don't die if
3496 the load fails. Useful for distros.
3497 [Ben Laurie and the FreeBSD team]
3499 *) Add support for Local Machine Keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
3502 *) Fix BN_GF2m_mod_arr() top-bit cleanup code.
3505 *) Expand ENGINE to support engine supplied SSL client certificate functions.
3507 This work was sponsored by Logica.
3510 *) Add CryptoAPI ENGINE to support use of RSA and DSA keys held in Windows
3511 keystores. Support for SSL/TLS client authentication too.
3512 Not compiled unless enable-capieng specified to Configure.
3514 This work was sponsored by Logica.
3517 *) Fix bug in X509_ATTRIBUTE creation: dont set attribute using
3518 ASN1_TYPE_set1 if MBSTRING flag set. This bug would crash certain
3519 attribute creation routines such as certifcate requests and PKCS#12
3523 Changes between 0.9.8g and 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]
3525 *) Fix flaw if 'Server Key exchange message' is omitted from a TLS
3526 handshake which could lead to a cilent crash as found using the
3527 Codenomicon TLS test suite (CVE-2008-1672)
3528 [Steve Henson, Mark Cox]
3530 *) Fix double free in TLS server name extensions which could lead to
3531 a remote crash found by Codenomicon TLS test suite (CVE-2008-0891)
3534 *) Clear error queue in SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file()
3536 Clear the error queue to ensure that error entries left from
3537 older function calls do not interfere with the correct operation.
3538 [Lutz Jaenicke, Erik de Castro Lopo]
3540 *) Remove root CA certificates of commercial CAs:
3542 The OpenSSL project does not recommend any specific CA and does not
3543 have any policy with respect to including or excluding any CA.
3544 Therefore it does not make any sense to ship an arbitrary selection
3545 of root CA certificates with the OpenSSL software.
3548 *) RSA OAEP patches to fix two separate invalid memory reads.
3549 The first one involves inputs when 'lzero' is greater than
3550 'SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH' (it would read about SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH bytes
3551 before the beginning of from). The second one involves inputs where
3552 the 'db' section contains nothing but zeroes (there is a one-byte
3553 invalid read after the end of 'db').
3554 [Ivan Nestlerode <inestlerode@us.ibm.com>]
3556 *) Partial backport from 0.9.9-dev:
3558 Introduce bn_mul_mont (dedicated Montgomery multiplication
3559 procedure) as a candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation.
3560 While 0.9.9-dev uses assembler for various architectures, only
3561 x86_64 is available by default here in the 0.9.8 branch, and
3562 32-bit x86 is available through a compile-time setting.
3564 To try the 32-bit x86 assembler implementation, use Configure
3565 option "enable-montasm" (which exists only for this backport).
3567 As "enable-montasm" for 32-bit x86 disclaims code stability
3568 anyway, in this constellation we activate additional code
3569 backported from 0.9.9-dev for further performance improvements,
3570 namely BN_from_montgomery_word. (To enable this otherwise,
3571 e.g. x86_64, try "-DMONT_FROM_WORD___NON_DEFAULT_0_9_8_BUILD".)
3573 [Andy Polyakov (backport partially by Bodo Moeller)]
3575 *) Add TLS session ticket callback. This allows an application to set
3576 TLS ticket cipher and HMAC keys rather than relying on hardcoded fixed
3577 values. This is useful for key rollover for example where several key
3578 sets may exist with different names.
3581 *) Reverse ENGINE-internal logic for caching default ENGINE handles.
3582 This was broken until now in 0.9.8 releases, such that the only way
3583 a registered ENGINE could be used (assuming it initialises
3584 successfully on the host) was to explicitly set it as the default
3585 for the relevant algorithms. This is in contradiction with 0.9.7
3586 behaviour and the documentation. With this fix, when an ENGINE is
3587 registered into a given algorithm's table of implementations, the
3588 'uptodate' flag is reset so that auto-discovery will be used next
3589 time a new context for that algorithm attempts to select an
3591 [Ian Lister (tweaked by Geoff Thorpe)]
3593 *) Backport of CMS code to OpenSSL 0.9.8. This differs from the 0.9.9
3594 implemention in the following ways:
3596 Lack of EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD means algorithm parameters have to be
3599 Lack of BER streaming support means one pass streaming processing is
3600 only supported if data is detached: setting the streaming flag is
3601 ignored for embedded content.
3603 CMS support is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled
3604 with the enable-cms configuration option.
3607 *) Update the GMP engine glue to do direct copies between BIGNUM and
3608 mpz_t when openssl and GMP use the same limb size. Otherwise the
3609 existing "conversion via a text string export" trick is still used.
3610 [Paul Sheer <paulsheer@gmail.com>]
3612 *) Zlib compression BIO. This is a filter BIO which compressed and
3613 uncompresses any data passed through it.
3616 *) Add AES_wrap_key() and AES_unwrap_key() functions to implement
3617 RFC3394 compatible AES key wrapping.
3620 *) Add utility functions to handle ASN1 structures. ASN1_STRING_set0():
3621 sets string data without copying. X509_ALGOR_set0() and
3622 X509_ALGOR_get0(): set and retrieve X509_ALGOR (AlgorithmIdentifier)
3623 data. Attribute function X509at_get0_data_by_OBJ(): retrieves data
3624 from an X509_ATTRIBUTE structure optionally checking it occurs only
3625 once. ASN1_TYPE_set1(): set and ASN1_TYPE structure copying supplied
3629 *) Fix BN flag handling in RSA_eay_mod_exp() and BN_MONT_CTX_set()
3630 to get the expected BN_FLG_CONSTTIME behavior.
3631 [Bodo Moeller (Google)]
3635 - fixed wrong usage of ioctlsocket() when build for LIBC BSD sockets
3636 - fixed do_tests.pl to run the test suite with CLIB builds too (CLIB_OPT)
3637 - added some more tests to do_tests.pl
3638 - fixed RunningProcess usage so that it works with newer LIBC NDKs too
3639 - removed usage of BN_LLONG for CLIB builds to avoid runtime dependency
3640 - added new Configure targets netware-clib-bsdsock, netware-clib-gcc,
3641 netware-clib-bsdsock-gcc, netware-libc-bsdsock-gcc
3642 - various changes to netware.pl to enable gcc-cross builds on Win32
3644 - changed crypto/bio/b_sock.c to work with macro functions (CLIB BSD)
3645 - various changes to fix missing prototype warnings
3646 - fixed x86nasm.pl to create correct asm files for NASM COFF output
3647 - added AES, WHIRLPOOL and CPUID assembler code to build files
3648 - added missing AES assembler make rules to mk1mf.pl
3649 - fixed order of includes in apps/ocsp.c so that e_os.h settings apply
3650 [Guenter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>]
3652 *) Implement certificate status request TLS extension defined in RFC3546.
3653 A client can set the appropriate parameters and receive the encoded
3654 OCSP response via a callback. A server can query the supplied parameters
3655 and set the encoded OCSP response in the callback. Add simplified examples
3656 to s_client and s_server.
3659 Changes between 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]
3661 *) Fix various bugs:
3662 + Binary incompatibility of ssl_ctx_st structure
3663 + DTLS interoperation with non-compliant servers
3664 + Don't call get_session_cb() without proposed session
3665 + Fix ia64 assembler code
3666 [Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson]
3668 Changes between 0.9.8e and 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]
3670 *) DTLS Handshake overhaul. There were longstanding issues with
3671 OpenSSL DTLS implementation, which were making it impossible for
3672 RFC 4347 compliant client to communicate with OpenSSL server.
3673 Unfortunately just fixing these incompatibilities would "cut off"
3674 pre-0.9.8f clients. To allow for hassle free upgrade post-0.9.8e
3675 server keeps tolerating non RFC compliant syntax. The opposite is
3676 not true, 0.9.8f client can not communicate with earlier server.
3677 This update even addresses CVE-2007-4995.
3680 *) Changes to avoid need for function casts in OpenSSL: some compilers
3681 (gcc 4.2 and later) reject their use.
3682 [Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>, Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>,
3685 *) Add RFC4507 support to OpenSSL. This includes the corrections in
3686 RFC4507bis. The encrypted ticket format is an encrypted encoded
3687 SSL_SESSION structure, that way new session features are automatically
3690 If a client application caches session in an SSL_SESSION structure
3691 support is transparent because tickets are now stored in the encoded
3694 The SSL_CTX structure automatically generates keys for ticket
3695 protection in servers so again support should be possible
3696 with no application modification.
3698 If a client or server wishes to disable RFC4507 support then the option
3699 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET can be set.
3701 Add a TLS extension debugging callback to allow the contents of any client
3702 or server extensions to be examined.
3704 This work was sponsored by Google.
3707 *) Add initial support for TLS extensions, specifically for the server_name
3708 extension so far. The SSL_SESSION, SSL_CTX, and SSL data structures now
3709 have new members for a host name. The SSL data structure has an
3710 additional member SSL_CTX *initial_ctx so that new sessions can be
3711 stored in that context to allow for session resumption, even after the
3712 SSL has been switched to a new SSL_CTX in reaction to a client's
3713 server_name extension.
3715 New functions (subject to change):
3717 SSL_get_servername()
3718 SSL_get_servername_type()
3721 New CTRL codes and macros (subject to change):
3723 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_CB
3724 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback()
3725 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_ARG
3726 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg()
3727 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME - SSL_set_tlsext_host_name()
3729 openssl s_client has a new '-servername ...' option.
3731 openssl s_server has new options '-servername_host ...', '-cert2 ...',
3732 '-key2 ...', '-servername_fatal' (subject to change). This allows
3733 testing the HostName extension for a specific single host name ('-cert'
3734 and '-key' remain fallbacks for handshakes without HostName
3735 negotiation). If the unrecogninzed_name alert has to be sent, this by
3736 default is a warning; it becomes fatal with the '-servername_fatal'
3739 [Peter Sylvester, Remy Allais, Christophe Renou, Steve Henson]
3741 *) Add AES and SSE2 assembly language support to VC++ build.
3744 *) Mitigate attack on final subtraction in Montgomery reduction.
3747 *) Fix crypto/ec/ec_mult.c to work properly with scalars of value 0
3748 (which previously caused an internal error).
3751 *) Squeeze another 10% out of IGE mode when in != out.
3754 *) AES IGE mode speedup.
3755 [Dean Gaudet (Google)]
3757 *) Add the Korean symmetric 128-bit cipher SEED (see
3758 http://www.kisa.or.kr/kisa/seed/jsp/seed_eng.jsp) and
3759 add SEED ciphersuites from RFC 4162:
3761 TLS_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "SEED-SHA"
3762 TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "DHE-DSS-SEED-SHA"
3763 TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "DHE-RSA-SEED-SHA"
3764 TLS_DH_anon_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = "ADH-SEED-SHA"
3766 To minimize changes between patchlevels in the OpenSSL 0.9.8
3767 series, SEED remains excluded from compilation unless OpenSSL
3768 is configured with 'enable-seed'.
3769 [KISA, Bodo Moeller]
3771 *) Mitigate branch prediction attacks, which can be practical if a
3772 single processor is shared, allowing a spy process to extract
3773 information. For detailed background information, see
3774 http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/039 (O. Aciicmez, S. Gueron,
3775 J.-P. Seifert, "New Branch Prediction Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
3776 and Necessary Software Countermeasures"). The core of the change
3777 are new versions BN_div_no_branch() and
3778 BN_mod_inverse_no_branch() of BN_div() and BN_mod_inverse(),
3779 respectively, which are slower, but avoid the security-relevant
3780 conditional branches. These are automatically called by BN_div()
3781 and BN_mod_inverse() if the flag BN_FLG_CONSTTIME is set for one
3782 of the input BIGNUMs. Also, BN_is_bit_set() has been changed to
3783 remove a conditional branch.
3785 BN_FLG_CONSTTIME is the new name for the previous
3786 BN_FLG_EXP_CONSTTIME flag, since it now affects more than just
3787 modular exponentiation. (Since OpenSSL 0.9.7h, setting this flag
3788 in the exponent causes BN_mod_exp_mont() to use the alternative
3789 implementation in BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime().) The old name
3790 remains as a deprecated alias.
3792 Similary, RSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME is replaced by a more general
3793 RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME flag since the RSA implementation now uses
3794 constant-time implementations for more than just exponentiation.
3795 Here too the old name is kept as a deprecated alias.
3797 BN_BLINDING_new() will now use BN_dup() for the modulus so that
3798 the BN_BLINDING structure gets an independent copy of the
3799 modulus. This means that the previous "BIGNUM *m" argument to
3800 BN_BLINDING_new() and to BN_BLINDING_create_param() now
3801 essentially becomes "const BIGNUM *m", although we can't actually
3802 change this in the header file before 0.9.9. It allows
3803 RSA_setup_blinding() to use BN_with_flags() on the modulus to
3804 enable BN_FLG_CONSTTIME.
3806 [Matthew D Wood (Intel Corp)]
3808 *) In the SSL/TLS server implementation, be strict about session ID
3809 context matching (which matters if an application uses a single
3810 external cache for different purposes). Previously,
3811 out-of-context reuse was forbidden only if SSL_VERIFY_PEER was
3812 set. This did ensure strict client verification, but meant that,
3813 with applications using a single external cache for quite
3814 different requirements, clients could circumvent ciphersuite
3815 restrictions for a given session ID context by starting a session
3816 in a different context.
3819 *) Include "!eNULL" in SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST to make sure that
3820 a ciphersuite string such as "DEFAULT:RSA" cannot enable
3821 authentication-only ciphersuites.
3824 *) Update the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() fix CVE-2006-3738 which was
3825 not complete and could lead to a possible single byte overflow
3826 (CVE-2007-5135) [Ben Laurie]
3828 Changes between 0.9.8d and 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]
3830 *) Since AES128 and AES256 (and similarly Camellia128 and
3831 Camellia256) share a single mask bit in the logic of
3832 ssl/ssl_ciph.c, the code for masking out disabled ciphers needs a
3833 kludge to work properly if AES128 is available and AES256 isn't
3834 (or if Camellia128 is available and Camellia256 isn't).
3837 *) Fix the BIT STRING encoding generated by crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c
3838 (within i2d_ECPrivateKey, i2d_ECPKParameters, i2d_ECParameters):
3839 When a point or a seed is encoded in a BIT STRING, we need to
3840 prevent the removal of trailing zero bits to get the proper DER
3841 encoding. (By default, crypto/asn1/a_bitstr.c assumes the case
3842 of a NamedBitList, for which trailing 0 bits need to be removed.)
3845 *) Have SSL/TLS server implementation tolerate "mismatched" record
3846 protocol version while receiving ClientHello even if the
3847 ClientHello is fragmented. (The server can't insist on the
3848 particular protocol version it has chosen before the ServerHello
3849 message has informed the client about his choice.)
3852 *) Add RFC 3779 support.
3853 [Rob Austein for ARIN, Ben Laurie]
3855 *) Load error codes if they are not already present instead of using a
3856 static variable. This allows them to be cleanly unloaded and reloaded.
3857 Improve header file function name parsing.
3860 *) extend SMTP and IMAP protocol emulation in s_client to use EHLO
3861 or CAPABILITY handshake as required by RFCs.
3864 Changes between 0.9.8c and 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]
3866 *) Introduce limits to prevent malicious keys being able to
3867 cause a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2940)
3868 [Steve Henson, Bodo Moeller]
3870 *) Fix ASN.1 parsing of certain invalid structures that can result
3871 in a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2937) [Steve Henson]
3873 *) Fix buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function.
3874 (CVE-2006-3738) [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
3876 *) Fix SSL client code which could crash if connecting to a
3877 malicious SSLv2 server. (CVE-2006-4343)
3878 [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
3880 *) Since 0.9.8b, ciphersuite strings naming explicit ciphersuites
3881 match only those. Before that, "AES256-SHA" would be interpreted
3882 as a pattern and match "AES128-SHA" too (since AES128-SHA got
3883 the same strength classification in 0.9.7h) as we currently only
3884 have a single AES bit in the ciphersuite description bitmap.
3885 That change, however, also applied to ciphersuite strings such as
3886 "RC4-MD5" that intentionally matched multiple ciphersuites --
3887 namely, SSL 2.0 ciphersuites in addition to the more common ones
3888 from SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0.
3890 So we change the selection algorithm again: Naming an explicit
3891 ciphersuite selects this one ciphersuite, and any other similar
3892 ciphersuite (same bitmap) from *other* protocol versions.
3893 Thus, "RC4-MD5" again will properly select both the SSL 2.0
3894 ciphersuite and the SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 ciphersuite.
3896 Since SSL 2.0 does not have any ciphersuites for which the
3897 128/256 bit distinction would be relevant, this works for now.
3898 The proper fix will be to use different bits for AES128 and
3899 AES256, which would have avoided the problems from the beginning;
3900 however, bits are scarce, so we can only do this in a new release
3901 (not just a patchlevel) when we can change the SSL_CIPHER
3902 definition to split the single 'unsigned long mask' bitmap into
3903 multiple values to extend the available space.
3907 Changes between 0.9.8b and 0.9.8c [05 Sep 2006]
3909 *) Avoid PKCS #1 v1.5 signature attack discovered by Daniel Bleichenbacher
3910 (CVE-2006-4339) [Ben Laurie and Google Security Team]
3912 *) Add AES IGE and biIGE modes.
3915 *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
3916 possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
3917 undesirable limitations.
3918 [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]
3920 *) Disable "ECCdraft" ciphersuites more thoroughly. Now special
3921 treatment in ssl/ssl_ciph.s makes sure that these ciphersuites
3922 cannot be implicitly activated as part of, e.g., the "AES" alias.
3923 However, please upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.9[-dev] for
3924 non-experimental use of the ECC ciphersuites to get TLS extension
3925 support, which is required for curve and point format negotiation
3926 to avoid potential handshake problems.
3929 *) Disable rogue ciphersuites:
3931 - SSLv2 0x08 0x00 0x80 ("RC4-64-MD5")
3932 - SSLv3/TLSv1 0x00 0x61 ("EXP1024-RC2-CBC-MD5")
3933 - SSLv3/TLSv1 0x00 0x60 ("EXP1024-RC4-MD5")
3935 The latter two were purportedly from
3936 draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-0[01].txt, but do not really
3939 Also deactivate the remaining ciphersuites from
3940 draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01.txt. These are just as
3941 unofficial, and the ID has long expired.
3944 *) Fix RSA blinding Heisenbug (problems sometimes occured on
3945 dual-core machines) and other potential thread-safety issues.
3948 *) Add the symmetric cipher Camellia (128-bit, 192-bit, 256-bit key
3949 versions), which is now available for royalty-free use
3950 (see http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/info/chiteki.html).
3951 Also, add Camellia TLS ciphersuites from RFC 4132.
3953 To minimize changes between patchlevels in the OpenSSL 0.9.8
3954 series, Camellia remains excluded from compilation unless OpenSSL
3955 is configured with 'enable-camellia'.
3958 *) Disable the padding bug check when compression is in use. The padding
3959 bug check assumes the first packet is of even length, this is not
3960 necessarily true if compresssion is enabled and can result in false
3961 positives causing handshake failure. The actual bug test is ancient
3962 code so it is hoped that implementations will either have fixed it by
3963 now or any which still have the bug do not support compression.
3966 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.8b [04 May 2006]
3968 *) When applying a cipher rule check to see if string match is an explicit
3969 cipher suite and only match that one cipher suite if it is.
3972 *) Link in manifests for VC++ if needed.
3973 [Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>]
3975 *) Update support for ECC-based TLS ciphersuites according to
3976 draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt with proposed changes (but without
3977 TLS extensions, which are supported starting with the 0.9.9
3978 branch, not in the OpenSSL 0.9.8 branch).
3981 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free() to support
3982 opaque EVP_CIPHER_CTX handling.
3985 *) Fixes and enhancements to zlib compression code. We now only use
3986 "zlib1.dll" and use the default __cdecl calling convention on Win32
3987 to conform with the standards mentioned here:
3988 http://www.zlib.net/DLL_FAQ.txt
3989 Static zlib linking now works on Windows and the new --with-zlib-include
3990 --with-zlib-lib options to Configure can be used to supply the location
3991 of the headers and library. Gracefully handle case where zlib library
3995 *) Several fixes and enhancements to the OID generation code. The old code
3996 sometimes allowed invalid OIDs (1.X for X >= 40 for example), couldn't
3997 handle numbers larger than ULONG_MAX, truncated printing and had a
3998 non standard OBJ_obj2txt() behaviour.
4001 *) Add support for building of engines under engine/ as shared libraries
4002 under VC++ build system.
4005 *) Corrected the numerous bugs in the Win32 path splitter in DSO.
4006 Hopefully, we will not see any false combination of paths any more.
4009 Changes between 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]
4011 *) Remove the functionality of SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING
4012 (part of SSL_OP_ALL). This option used to disable the
4013 countermeasure against man-in-the-middle protocol-version
4014 rollback in the SSL 2.0 server implementation, which is a bad
4015 idea. (CVE-2005-2969)
4017 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Yutaka Oiwa (Research Center
4018 for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
4019 Science and Technology [AIST], Japan)]
4021 *) Add two function to clear and return the verify parameter flags.
4024 *) Keep cipherlists sorted in the source instead of sorting them at
4025 runtime, thus removing the need for a lock.
4028 *) Avoid some small subgroup attacks in Diffie-Hellman.
4029 [Nick Mathewson and Ben Laurie]
4031 *) Add functions for well-known primes.
4034 *) Extended Windows CE support.
4035 [Satoshi Nakamura and Andy Polyakov]
4037 *) Initialize SSL_METHOD structures at compile time instead of during
4038 runtime, thus removing the need for a lock.
4041 *) Make PKCS7_decrypt() work even if no certificate is supplied by
4042 attempting to decrypt each encrypted key in turn. Add support to
4046 Changes between 0.9.7h and 0.9.8 [05 Jul 2005]
4048 [NB: OpenSSL 0.9.7i and later 0.9.7 patch levels were released after
4051 *) Add libcrypto.pc and libssl.pc for those who feel they need them.
4054 *) Change CA.sh and CA.pl so they don't bundle the CSR and the private
4055 key into the same file any more.
4058 *) Add initial support for Win64, both IA64 and AMD64/x64 flavors.
4061 *) Add -utf8 command line and config file option to 'ca'.
4062 [Stefan <stf@udoma.org]
4064 *) Removed the macro des_crypt(), as it seems to conflict with some
4065 libraries. Use DES_crypt().
4068 *) Correct naming of the 'chil' and '4758cca' ENGINEs. This
4069 involves renaming the source and generated shared-libs for
4070 both. The engines will accept the corrected or legacy ids
4071 ('ncipher' and '4758_cca' respectively) when binding. NB,
4072 this only applies when building 'shared'.
4073 [Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> and Geoff Thorpe]
4075 *) Add attribute functions to EVP_PKEY structure. Modify
4076 PKCS12_create() to recognize a CSP name attribute and
4077 use it. Make -CSP option work again in pkcs12 utility.
4080 *) Add new functionality to the bn blinding code:
4081 - automatic re-creation of the BN_BLINDING parameters after
4082 a fixed number of uses (currently 32)
4083 - add new function for parameter creation
4084 - introduce flags to control the update behaviour of the
4085 BN_BLINDING parameters
4086 - hide BN_BLINDING structure
4087 Add a second BN_BLINDING slot to the RSA structure to improve
4088 performance when a single RSA object is shared among several
4092 *) Add support for DTLS.
4093 [Nagendra Modadugu <nagendra@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
4095 *) Add support for DER encoded private keys (SSL_FILETYPE_ASN1)
4096 to SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file() and SSL_use_PrivateKey_file()
4099 *) Remove buggy and incompletet DH cert support from
4100 ssl/ssl_rsa.c and ssl/s3_both.c
4103 *) Use SHA-1 instead of MD5 as the default digest algorithm for
4104 the apps/openssl applications.
4107 *) Compile clean with "-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
4108 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Werror". Currently
4109 DEBUG_SAFESTACK must also be set.
4112 *) Change ./Configure so that certain algorithms can be disabled by default.
4113 The new counterpiece to "no-xxx" is "enable-xxx".
4115 The patented RC5 and MDC2 algorithms will now be disabled unless
4116 "enable-rc5" and "enable-mdc2", respectively, are specified.
4118 (IDEA remains enabled despite being patented. This is because IDEA
4119 is frequently required for interoperability, and there is no license
4120 fee for non-commercial use. As before, "no-idea" can be used to
4121 avoid this algorithm.)
4125 *) Add processing of proxy certificates (see RFC 3820). This work was
4126 sponsored by KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm) and
4127 EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe).
4130 *) RC4 performance overhaul on modern architectures/implementations, such
4131 as Intel P4, IA-64 and AMD64.
4134 *) New utility extract-section.pl. This can be used specify an alternative
4135 section number in a pod file instead of having to treat each file as
4136 a separate case in Makefile. This can be done by adding two lines to the
4139 =for comment openssl_section:XXX
4141 The blank line is mandatory.
4145 *) New arguments -certform, -keyform and -pass for s_client and s_server
4146 to allow alternative format key and certificate files and passphrase
4150 *) New structure X509_VERIFY_PARAM which combines current verify parameters,
4151 update associated structures and add various utility functions.
4153 Add new policy related verify parameters, include policy checking in
4154 standard verify code. Enhance 'smime' application with extra parameters
4155 to support policy checking and print out.
4158 *) Add a new engine to support VIA PadLock ACE extensions in the VIA C3
4159 Nehemiah processors. These extensions support AES encryption in hardware
4160 as well as RNG (though RNG support is currently disabled).
4161 [Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>, with help from Andy Polyakov]
4163 *) Deprecate BN_[get|set]_params() functions (they were ignored internally).
4166 *) New FIPS 180-2 algorithms, SHA-224/-256/-384/-512 are implemented.
4167 [Andy Polyakov and a number of other people]
4169 *) Improved PowerPC platform support. Most notably BIGNUM assembler
4170 implementation contributed by IBM.
4171 [Suresh Chari, Peter Waltenberg, Andy Polyakov]
4173 *) The new 'RSA_generate_key_ex' function now takes a BIGNUM for the public
4174 exponent rather than 'unsigned long'. There is a corresponding change to
4175 the new 'rsa_keygen' element of the RSA_METHOD structure.
4176 [Jelte Jansen, Geoff Thorpe]
4178 *) Functionality for creating the initial serial number file is now
4179 moved from CA.pl to the 'ca' utility with a new option -create_serial.
4181 (Before OpenSSL 0.9.7e, CA.pl used to initialize the serial
4182 number file to 1, which is bound to cause problems. To avoid
4183 the problems while respecting compatibility between different 0.9.7
4184 patchlevels, 0.9.7e employed 'openssl x509 -next_serial' in
4185 CA.pl for serial number initialization. With the new release 0.9.8,
4186 we can fix the problem directly in the 'ca' utility.)
4189 *) Reduced header interdepencies by declaring more opaque objects in
4190 ossl_typ.h. As a consequence, including some headers (eg. engine.h) will
4191 give fewer recursive includes, which could break lazy source code - so
4192 this change is covered by the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED symbol. As always,
4193 developers should define this symbol when building and using openssl to
4194 ensure they track the recommended behaviour, interfaces, [etc], but
4195 backwards-compatible behaviour prevails when this isn't defined.
4198 *) New function X509_POLICY_NODE_print() which prints out policy nodes.
4201 *) Add new EVP function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key and associated functionality.
4202 This will generate a random key of the appropriate length based on the
4203 cipher context. The EVP_CIPHER can provide its own random key generation
4204 routine to support keys of a specific form. This is used in the des and
4205 3des routines to generate a key of the correct parity. Update S/MIME
4206 code to use new functions and hence generate correct parity DES keys.
4207 Add EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY #define to return an error if the key is not
4208 valid (weak or incorrect parity).
4211 *) Add a local set of CRLs that can be used by X509_verify_cert() as well
4212 as looking them up. This is useful when the verified structure may contain
4213 CRLs, for example PKCS#7 signedData. Modify PKCS7_verify() to use any CRLs
4214 present unless the new PKCS7_NO_CRL flag is asserted.
4217 *) Extend ASN1 oid configuration module. It now additionally accepts the
4220 shortName = some long name, 1.2.3.4
4223 *) Reimplemented the BN_CTX implementation. There is now no more static
4224 limitation on the number of variables it can handle nor the depth of the
4225 "stack" handling for BN_CTX_start()/BN_CTX_end() pairs. The stack
4226 information can now expand as required, and rather than having a single
4227 static array of bignums, BN_CTX now uses a linked-list of such arrays
4228 allowing it to expand on demand whilst maintaining the usefulness of
4229 BN_CTX's "bundling".
4232 *) Add a missing BN_CTX parameter to the 'rsa_mod_exp' callback in RSA_METHOD
4233 to allow all RSA operations to function using a single BN_CTX.
4236 *) Preliminary support for certificate policy evaluation and checking. This
4237 is initially intended to pass the tests outlined in "Conformance Testing
4238 of Relying Party Client Certificate Path Processing Logic" v1.07.
4241 *) bn_dup_expand() has been deprecated, it was introduced in 0.9.7 and
4242 remained unused and not that useful. A variety of other little bignum
4243 tweaks and fixes have also been made continuing on from the audit (see
4247 *) Constify all or almost all d2i, c2i, s2i and r2i functions, along with
4248 associated ASN1, EVP and SSL functions and old ASN1 macros.
4251 *) BN_zero() only needs to set 'top' and 'neg' to zero for correct results,
4252 and this should never fail. So the return value from the use of
4253 BN_set_word() (which can fail due to needless expansion) is now deprecated;
4254 if OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined, BN_zero() is a void macro.
4257 *) BN_CTX_get() should return zero-valued bignums, providing the same
4258 initialised value as BN_new().
4259 [Geoff Thorpe, suggested by Ulf Möller]
4261 *) Support for inhibitAnyPolicy certificate extension.
4264 *) An audit of the BIGNUM code is underway, for which debugging code is
4265 enabled when BN_DEBUG is defined. This makes stricter enforcements on what
4266 is considered valid when processing BIGNUMs, and causes execution to
4267 assert() when a problem is discovered. If BN_DEBUG_RAND is defined,
4268 further steps are taken to deliberately pollute unused data in BIGNUM
4269 structures to try and expose faulty code further on. For now, openssl will
4270 (in its default mode of operation) continue to tolerate the inconsistent
4271 forms that it has tolerated in the past, but authors and packagers should
4272 consider trying openssl and their own applications when compiled with
4273 these debugging symbols defined. It will help highlight potential bugs in
4274 their own code, and will improve the test coverage for OpenSSL itself. At
4275 some point, these tighter rules will become openssl's default to improve
4276 maintainability, though the assert()s and other overheads will remain only
4277 in debugging configurations. See bn.h for more details.
4278 [Geoff Thorpe, Nils Larsch, Ulf Möller]
4280 *) BN_CTX_init() has been deprecated, as BN_CTX is an opaque structure