https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/ and pick the appropriate
release branch.
- Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
+ Changes between 1.1.1g and 1.1.1h [xx XXX xxxx]
+
+ *)
+
+ Changes between 1.1.1f and 1.1.1g [21 Apr 2020]
+
+ *) Fixed segmentation fault in SSL_check_chain()
+ Server or client applications that call the SSL_check_chain() function
+ during or after a TLS 1.3 handshake may crash due to a NULL pointer
+ dereference as a result of incorrect handling of the
+ "signature_algorithms_cert" TLS extension. The crash occurs if an invalid
+ or unrecognised signature algorithm is received from the peer. This could
+ be exploited by a malicious peer in a Denial of Service attack.
+ (CVE-2020-1967)
+ [Benjamin Kaduk]
+
+ *) Added AES consttime code for no-asm configurations
+ an optional constant time support for AES was added
+ when building openssl for no-asm.
+ Enable with: ./config no-asm -DOPENSSL_AES_CONST_TIME
+ Disable with: ./config no-asm -DOPENSSL_NO_AES_CONST_TIME
+ At this time this feature is by default disabled.
+ It will be enabled by default in 3.0.
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.1e and 1.1.1f [31 Mar 2020]
+
+ *) Revert the change of EOF detection while reading in libssl to avoid
+ regressions in applications depending on the current way of reporting
+ the EOF. As the existing method is not fully accurate the change to
+ reporting the EOF via SSL_ERROR_SSL is kept on the current development
+ branch and will be present in the 3.0 release.
+ [Tomas Mraz]
+
+ *) Revised BN_generate_prime_ex to not avoid factors 3..17863 in p-1
+ when primes for RSA keys are computed.
+ Since we previously always generated primes == 2 (mod 3) for RSA keys,
+ the 2-prime and 3-prime RSA modules were easy to distinguish, since
+ N = p*q = 1 (mod 3), but N = p*q*r = 2 (mod 3). Therefore fingerprinting
+ 2-prime vs. 3-prime RSA keys was possible by computing N mod 3.
+ This avoids possible fingerprinting of newly generated RSA modules.
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.1d and 1.1.1e [17 Mar 2020]
+ *) Properly detect EOF while reading in libssl. Previously if we hit an EOF
+ while reading in libssl then we would report an error back to the
+ application (SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL) but errno would be 0. We now add
+ an error to the stack (which means we instead return SSL_ERROR_SSL) and
+ therefore give a hint as to what went wrong.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Check that ed25519 and ed448 are allowed by the security level. Previously
+ signature algorithms not using an MD were not being checked that they were
+ allowed by the security level.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) Fixed SSL_get_servername() behaviour. The behaviour of SSL_get_servername()
+ was not quite right. The behaviour was not consistent between resumption
+ and normal handshakes, and also not quite consistent with historical
+ behaviour. The behaviour in various scenarios has been clarified and
+ it has been updated to make it match historical behaviour as closely as
+ possible.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) [VMS only] The header files that the VMS compilers include automatically,
+ __DECC_INCLUDE_PROLOGUE.H and __DECC_INCLUDE_EPILOGUE.H, use pragmas that
+ the C++ compiler doesn't understand. This is a shortcoming in the
+ compiler, but can be worked around with __cplusplus guards.
+
+ C++ applications that use OpenSSL libraries must be compiled using the
+ qualifier '/NAMES=(AS_IS,SHORTENED)' to be able to use all the OpenSSL
+ functions. Otherwise, only functions with symbols of less than 31
+ characters can be used, as the linker will not be able to successfully
+ resolve symbols with longer names.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Corrected the documentation of the return values from the EVP_DigestSign*
+ set of functions. The documentation mentioned negative values for some
+ errors, but this was never the case, so the mention of negative values
+ was removed.
+
+ Code that followed the documentation and thereby check with something
+ like 'EVP_DigestSignInit(...) <= 0' will continue to work undisturbed.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Fixed an an overflow bug in the x64_64 Montgomery squaring procedure
+ used in exponentiation with 512-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are
+ affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against 2-prime RSA1024,
+ 3-prime RSA1536, and DSA1024 as a result of this defect would be very
+ difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH512
+ are considered just feasible. However, for an attack the target would
+ have to re-use the DH512 private key, which is not recommended anyway.
+ Also applications directly using the low level API BN_mod_exp may be
+ affected if they use BN_FLG_CONSTTIME.
+ (CVE-2019-1551)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Added a new method to gather entropy on VMS, based on SYS$GET_ENTROPY.
+ The presence of this system service is determined at run-time.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Added newline escaping functionality to a filename when using openssl dgst.
+ This output format is to replicate the output format found in the '*sum'
+ checksum programs. This aims to preserve backward compatibility.
+ [Matt Eaton, Richard Levitte, and Paul Dale]
+
+ *) Print all values for a PKCS#12 attribute with 'openssl pkcs12', not just
+ the first value.
+ [Jon Spillett]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.1c and 1.1.1d [10 Sep 2019]
+
+ *) Fixed a fork protection issue. OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random
+ number generator (RNG). This was intended to include protection in the
+ event of a fork() system call in order to ensure that the parent and child
+ processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not
+ being used in the default case.
+
+ A partial mitigation for this issue is that the output from a high
+ precision timer is mixed into the RNG state so the likelihood of a parent
+ and child process sharing state is significantly reduced.
+
+ If an application already calls OPENSSL_init_crypto() explicitly using
+ OPENSSL_INIT_ATFORK then this problem does not occur at all.
+ (CVE-2019-1549)
+ [Matthias St. Pierre]
+
+ *) For built-in EC curves, ensure an EC_GROUP built from the curve name is
+ used even when parsing explicit parameters, when loading a serialized key
+ or calling `EC_GROUP_new_from_ecpkparameters()`/
+ `EC_GROUP_new_from_ecparameters()`.
+ This prevents bypass of security hardening and performance gains,
+ especially for curves with specialized EC_METHODs.
+ By default, if a key encoded with explicit parameters is loaded and later
+ serialized, the output is still encoded with explicit parameters, even if
+ internally a "named" EC_GROUP is used for computation.
+ [Nicola Tuveri]
+
+ *) Compute ECC cofactors if not provided during EC_GROUP construction. Before
+ this change, EC_GROUP_set_generator would accept order and/or cofactor as
+ NULL. After this change, only the cofactor parameter can be NULL. It also
+ does some minimal sanity checks on the passed order.
+ (CVE-2019-1547)
+ [Billy Bob Brumley]
+
+ *) Fixed a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey.
+ An attack is simple, if the first CMS_recipientInfo is valid but the
+ second CMS_recipientInfo is chosen ciphertext. If the second
+ recipientInfo decodes to PKCS #1 v1.5 form plaintext, the correct
+ encryption key will be replaced by garbage, and the message cannot be
+ decoded, but if the RSA decryption fails, the correct encryption key is
+ used and the recipient will not notice the attack.
+ As a work around for this potential attack the length of the decrypted
+ key must be equal to the cipher default key length, in case the
+ certifiate is not given and all recipientInfo are tried out.
+ The old behaviour can be re-enabled in the CMS code by setting the
+ CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT flag.
+ (CVE-2019-1563)
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
+ *) Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been
+ improved for older Linux systems. The RAND subsystem will wait for
+ /dev/random to be producing output before seeding from /dev/urandom.
+ The seeded state is stored for future library initialisations using
+ a system global shared memory segment. The shared memory identifier
+ can be configured by defining OPENSSL_RAND_SEED_DEVRANDOM_SHM_ID to
+ the desired value. The default identifier is 114.
+ [Paul Dale]
+
+ *) Correct the extended master secret constant on EBCDIC systems. Without this
+ fix TLS connections between an EBCDIC system and a non-EBCDIC system that
+ negotiate EMS will fail. Unfortunately this also means that TLS connections
+ between EBCDIC systems with this fix, and EBCDIC systems without this
+ fix will fail if they negotiate EMS.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Use Windows installation paths in the mingw builds
+
+ Mingw isn't a POSIX environment per se, which means that Windows
+ paths should be used for installation.
+ (CVE-2019-1552)
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Changed DH_check to accept parameters with order q and 2q subgroups.
+ With order 2q subgroups the bit 0 of the private key is not secret
+ but DH_generate_key works around that by clearing bit 0 of the
+ private key for those. This avoids leaking bit 0 of the private key.
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
+ *) Significantly reduce secure memory usage by the randomness pools.
+ [Paul Dale]
+
+ *) Revert the DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature for Linux systems
+
+ The DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature added a select() call to wait for the
+ /dev/random device to become readable before reading from the
+ /dev/urandom device.
+
+ It turned out that this change had negative side effects on
+ performance which were not acceptable. After some discussion it
+ was decided to revert this feature and leave it up to the OS
+ resp. the platform maintainer to ensure a proper initialization
+ during early boot time.
+ [Matthias St. Pierre]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.1b and 1.1.1c [28 May 2019]
+
+ *) Add build tests for C++. These are generated files that only do one
+ thing, to include one public OpenSSL head file each. This tests that
+ the public header files can be usefully included in a C++ application.
+
+ This test isn't enabled by default. It can be enabled with the option
+ 'enable-buildtest-c++'.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Enable SHA3 pre-hashing for ECDSA and DSA.
+ [Patrick Steuer]
+
+ *) Change the default RSA, DSA and DH size to 2048 bit instead of 1024.
+ This changes the size when using the genpkey app when no size is given. It
+ fixes an omission in earlier changes that changed all RSA, DSA and DH
+ generation apps to use 2048 bits by default.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) Reorganize the manual pages to consistently have RETURN VALUES,
+ EXAMPLES, SEE ALSO and HISTORY come in that order, and adjust
+ util/fix-doc-nits accordingly.
+ [Paul Yang, Joshua Lock]
+
+ *) Add the missing accessor EVP_PKEY_get0_engine()
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Have apps like 's_client' and 's_server' output the signature scheme
+ along with other cipher suite parameters when debugging.
+ [Lorinczy Zsigmond]
+
+ *) Make OPENSSL_config() error agnostic again.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Do the error handling in RSA decryption constant time.
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
+ *) Prevent over long nonces in ChaCha20-Poly1305.
+
+ ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an AEAD cipher, and requires a unique nonce input
+ for every encryption operation. RFC 7539 specifies that the nonce value
+ (IV) should be 96 bits (12 bytes). OpenSSL allows a variable nonce length
+ and front pads the nonce with 0 bytes if it is less than 12
+ bytes. However it also incorrectly allows a nonce to be set of up to 16
+ bytes. In this case only the last 12 bytes are significant and any
+ additional leading bytes are ignored.
+
+ It is a requirement of using this cipher that nonce values are
+ unique. Messages encrypted using a reused nonce value are susceptible to
+ serious confidentiality and integrity attacks. If an application changes
+ the default nonce length to be longer than 12 bytes and then makes a
+ change to the leading bytes of the nonce expecting the new value to be a
+ new unique nonce then such an application could inadvertently encrypt
+ messages with a reused nonce.
+
+ Additionally the ignored bytes in a long nonce are not covered by the
+ integrity guarantee of this cipher. Any application that relies on the
+ integrity of these ignored leading bytes of a long nonce may be further
+ affected. Any OpenSSL internal use of this cipher, including in SSL/TLS,
+ is safe because no such use sets such a long nonce value. However user
+ applications that use this cipher directly and set a non-default nonce
+ length to be longer than 12 bytes may be vulnerable.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 16th of March 2019 by Joran Dirk
+ Greef of Ronomon.
+ (CVE-2019-1543)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Add DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature for Linux systems
+
+ On older Linux systems where the getrandom() system call is not available,
+ OpenSSL normally uses the /dev/urandom device for seeding its CSPRNG.
+ Contrary to getrandom(), the /dev/urandom device will not block during
+ early boot when the kernel CSPRNG has not been seeded yet.
+
+ To mitigate this known weakness, use select() to wait for /dev/random to
+ become readable before reading from /dev/urandom.
+
+ *) Ensure that SM2 only uses SM3 as digest algorithm
+ [Paul Yang]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.1a and 1.1.1b [26 Feb 2019]
+
+ *) Added SCA hardening for modular field inversion in EC_GROUP through
+ a new dedicated field_inv() pointer in EC_METHOD.
+ This also addresses a leakage affecting conversions from projective
+ to affine coordinates.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
+
+ *) Change the info callback signals for the start and end of a post-handshake
+ message exchange in TLSv1.3. In 1.1.1/1.1.1a we used SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_START
+ and SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_DONE. Experience has shown that many applications get
+ confused by this and assume that a TLSv1.2 renegotiation has started. This
+ can break KeyUpdate handling. Instead we no longer signal the start and end
+ of a post handshake message exchange (although the messages themselves are
+ still signalled). This could break some applications that were expecting
+ the old signals. However without this KeyUpdate is not usable for many
+ applications.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Fix a bug in the computation of the endpoint-pair shared secret used
+ by DTLS over SCTP. This breaks interoperability with older versions
+ of OpenSSL like OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.2. There is a runtime
+ switch SSL_MODE_DTLS_SCTP_LABEL_LENGTH_BUG (off by default) enabling
+ interoperability with such broken implementations. However, enabling
+ this switch breaks interoperability with correct implementations.
+
+ *) Fix a use after free bug in d2i_X509_PUBKEY when overwriting a
+ re-used X509_PUBKEY object if the second PUBKEY is malformed.
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
+ *) Move strictness check from EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() to EVP_PKEY_asn1_add0().
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Remove the 'dist' target and add a tarball building script. The
+ 'dist' target has fallen out of use, and it shouldn't be
+ necessary to configure just to create a source distribution.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
+
+ *) Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation
+
+ The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
+ timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
+ algorithm to recover the private key.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 16th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
+ (CVE-2018-0734)
+ [Paul Dale]
+
+ *) Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation
+
+ The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a
+ timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing
+ algorithm to recover the private key.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 25th October 2018 by Samuel Weiser.
+ (CVE-2018-0735)
+ [Paul Dale]
+
+ *) Added EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_63 and ecdh_KDF_X9_63() as replacements for
+ the EVP_PKEY_ECDH_KDF_X9_62 KDF type and ECDH_KDF_X9_62(). The old names
+ are retained for backwards compatibility.
+ [Antoine Salon]
+
+ *) Fixed the issue that RAND_add()/RAND_seed() silently discards random input
+ if its length exceeds 4096 bytes. The limit has been raised to a buffer size
+ of two gigabytes and the error handling improved.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Dr. Falko Strenzke. It has been
+ categorized as a normal bug, not a security issue, because the DRBG reseeds
+ automatically and is fully functional even without additional randomness
+ provided by the application.
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0i and 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
+
+ *) Add a new ClientHello callback. Provides a callback interface that gives
+ the application the ability to adjust the nascent SSL object at the
+ earliest stage of ClientHello processing, immediately after extensions have
+ been collected but before they have been processed. In particular, this
+ callback can adjust the supported TLS versions in response to the contents
+ of the ClientHello
+ [Benjamin Kaduk]
+
+ *) Add SM2 base algorithm support.
+ [Jack Lloyd]
+
+ *) s390x assembly pack: add (improved) hardware-support for the following
+ cryptographic primitives: sha3, shake, aes-gcm, aes-ccm, aes-ctr, aes-ofb,
+ aes-cfb/cfb8, aes-ecb.
+ [Patrick Steuer]
+
+ *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
+ parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
+ pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
+ step for prime curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
+ differential addition-and-doubling in homogeneous projective coordinates
+ from Izu-Takagi "A fast parallel elliptic curve multiplication resistant
+ against side channel attacks" and Brier-Joye "Weierstrass Elliptic Curves
+ and Side-Channel Attacks" Eq. (8) for y-coordinate recovery, modified
+ to work in projective coordinates.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri]
+
+ *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
+ being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
+ For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
+ The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
+ to 2^-128.
+ [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
+
+ *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) The 'tsget' script is renamed to 'tsget.pl', to avoid confusion when
+ moving between systems, and to avoid confusion when a Windows build is
+ done with mingw vs with MSVC. For POSIX installs, there's still a
+ symlink or copy named 'tsget' to avoid that confusion as well.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
+ length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Use the new ec_scalar_mul_ladder scaffold to implement a specialized ladder
+ step for binary curves. The new implementation is based on formulae from
+ differential addition-and-doubling in mixed Lopez-Dahab projective
+ coordinates, modified to independently blind the operands.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
+
+ *) Add a scaffold to optionally enhance the Montgomery ladder implementation
+ for `ec_scalar_mul_ladder` (formerly `ec_mul_consttime`) allowing
+ EC_METHODs to implement their own specialized "ladder step", to take
+ advantage of more favorable coordinate systems or more efficient
+ differential addition-and-doubling algorithms.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri]
+
+ *) Modified the random device based seed sources to keep the relevant
+ file descriptors open rather than reopening them on each access.
+ This allows such sources to operate in a chroot() jail without
+ the associated device nodes being available. This behaviour can be
+ controlled using RAND_keep_random_devices_open().
+ [Paul Dale]
+
+ *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
+ performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
+ security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
+ authors.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
+ handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
+ different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to
+ mitigate conflict between 1.0 and 1.1 side-by-side installations. It
+ doesn't affect the way 3rd party applications are linked, only how
+ multi-version installation is managed.
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Make ec_group_do_inverse_ord() more robust and available to other
+ EC cryptosystems, so that irrespective of BN_FLG_CONSTTIME, SCA
+ mitigations are applied to the fallback BN_mod_inverse().
+ When using this function rather than BN_mod_inverse() directly, new
+ EC cryptosystem implementations are then safer-by-default.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley]
+
+ *) Add coordinate blinding for EC_POINT and implement projective
+ coordinate blinding for generic prime curves as a countermeasure to
+ chosen point SCA attacks.
+ [Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Billy Bob Brumley]
+
+ *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
+ attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Enforce checking in the pkeyutl command line app to ensure that the input
+ length does not exceed the maximum supported digest length when performing
+ a sign, verify or verifyrecover operation.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY is enabled by default. Applications that use blocking
+ I/O in combination with something like select() or poll() will hang. This
+ can be turned off again using SSL_CTX_clear_mode().
+ Many applications do not properly handle non-application data records, and
+ TLS 1.3 sends more of such records. Setting SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY works
+ around the problems in those applications, but can also break some.
+ It's recommended to read the manpages about SSL_read(), SSL_write(),
+ SSL_get_error(), SSL_shutdown(), SSL_CTX_set_mode() and
+ SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead() again.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
+ now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Apply blinding to binary field modular inversion and remove patent
+ pending (OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV) BN_GF2m_mod_div implementation.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley]
+
+ *) Deprecate ec2_mult.c and unify scalar multiplication code paths for
+ binary and prime elliptic curves.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley]
+
+ *) Remove ECDSA nonce padding: EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for
+ constant time fixed point multiplication.
+ [Billy Bob Brumley]
+
+ *) Revise elliptic curve scalar multiplication with timing attack
+ defenses: ec_wNAF_mul redirects to a constant time implementation
+ when computing fixed point and variable point multiplication (which
+ in OpenSSL are mostly used with secret scalars in keygen, sign,
+ ECDH derive operations).
+ [Billy Bob Brumley, Nicola Tuveri, Cesar Pereida García,
+ Sohaib ul Hassan]
+
+ *) Updated CONTRIBUTING
+ [Rich Salz]
+
+ *) Updated DRBG / RAND to request nonce and additional low entropy
+ randomness from the system.
+ [Matthias St. Pierre]
+
+ *) Updated 'openssl rehash' to use OpenSSL consistent default.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Moved the load of the ssl_conf module to libcrypto, which helps
+ loading engines that libssl uses before libssl is initialised.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Added EVP_PKEY_sign() and EVP_PKEY_verify() for EdDSA
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Fixed X509_NAME_ENTRY_set to get multi-valued RDNs right in all cases.
+ [Ingo Schwarze, Rich Salz]
+
+ *) Added output of accepting IP address and port for 'openssl s_server'
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Added a new API for TLSv1.3 ciphersuites:
+ SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites()
+ SSL_set_ciphersuites()
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Memory allocation failures consistently add an error to the error
+ stack.
+ [Rich Salz]
+
+ *) Don't use OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_CONF environment values
+ in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
+ *) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
+ for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
+ [Matthias St. Pierre]
+
+ *) QNX support removed (cannot find contributors to get their approval
+ for the license change).
+ [Rich Salz]
+
+ *) TLSv1.3 replay protection for early data has been implemented. See the
+ SSL_read_early_data() man page for further details.
+ [Matt Caswell]
*) Separated TLSv1.3 ciphersuite configuration out from TLSv1.2 ciphersuite
configuration. TLSv1.3 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.2 and
below. Similarly TLSv1.2 ciphersuites are not compatible with TLSv1.3.
In order to avoid issues where legacy TLSv1.2 ciphersuite configuration
would otherwise inadvertently disable all TLSv1.3 ciphersuites the
- configuraton has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
+ configuration has been separated out. See the ciphers man page or the
SSL_CTX_set_ciphersuites() man page for more information.
[Matt Caswell]
*) Support for TLSv1.3 added. Note that users upgrading from an earlier
version of OpenSSL should review their configuration settings to ensure
that they are still appropriate for TLSv1.3. For further information see:
- https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/02/08/tlsv1.3/
-
- NOTE: In this pre-release of OpenSSL a draft version of the
- TLSv1.3 standard has been implemented. Implementations of different draft
- versions of the standard do not inter-operate, and this version will not
- inter-operate with an implementation of the final standard when it is
- eventually published. Different pre-release versions may implement
- different versions of the draft. The final version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 will
- implement the final version of the standard.
- TODO(TLS1.3): Remove the above note before final release
+ https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
[Matt Caswell]
*) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
Some of its new features are:
o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
- o Add a public DRBG instance for the default RAND method.
- o Add a dedicated DRBG instance for generating long term private keys.
- o Make the DRBG instances fork-safe.
+ o The default RAND method makes use of a DRBG.
+ o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
+ o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
- o Add a DRBG instance to every SSL instance for lock free operation
- and to increase unpredictability.
+ o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
+ operation
[Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre]
*) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump
bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such
alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice
it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3
- prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
+ prohibits this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not
support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the
- record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability
+ record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause interoperability
issues.
[Matt Caswell]
issues, has been replaced to always returns NULL.
[Rich Salz]
- Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [xx XXX xxxx]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
+
+ *) Client DoS due to large DH parameter
+
+ During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a
+ malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will
+ cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a
+ key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This
+ could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 5th June 2018 by Guido Vranken
+ (CVE-2018-0732)
+ [Guido Vranken]
+
+ *) Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation
+
+ The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to
+ a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to
+ mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could
+ recover the private key.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th April 2018 by Alejandro Cabrera
+ Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia.
+ (CVE-2018-0737)
+ [Billy Brumley]
+
+ *) Make EVP_PKEY_asn1_new() a bit stricter about its input. A NULL pem_str
+ parameter is no longer accepted, as it leads to a corrupt table. NULL
+ pem_str is reserved for alias entries only.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Revert blinding in ECDSA sign and instead make problematic addition
+ length-invariant. Switch even to fixed-length Montgomery multiplication.
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of not
+ being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input.
+ For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin.
+ The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered
+ to 2^-128.
+ [Kurt Roeckx, Annie Yousar]
+
+ *) Increase the number of Miller-Rabin rounds for DSA key generating to 64.
+ [Kurt Roeckx]
+
+ *) Add blinding to ECDSA and DSA signatures to protect against side channel
+ attacks discovered by Keegan Ryan (NCC Group).
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) When unlocking a pass phrase protected PEM file or PKCS#8 container, we
+ now allow empty (zero character) pass phrases.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Certificate time validation (X509_cmp_time) enforces stricter
+ compliance with RFC 5280. Fractional seconds and timezone offsets
+ are no longer allowed.
+ [Emilia Käsper]
+
+ *) Fixed a text canonicalisation bug in CMS
+
+ Where a CMS detached signature is used with text content the text goes
+ through a canonicalisation process first prior to signing or verifying a
+ signature. This process strips trailing space at the end of lines, converts
+ line terminators to CRLF and removes additional trailing line terminators
+ at the end of a file. A bug in the canonicalisation process meant that
+ some characters, such as form-feed, were incorrectly treated as whitespace
+ and removed. This is contrary to the specification (RFC5485). This fix
+ could mean that detached text data signed with an earlier version of
+ OpenSSL 1.1.0 may fail to verify using the fixed version, or text data
+ signed with a fixed OpenSSL may fail to verify with an earlier version of
+ OpenSSL 1.1.0. A workaround is to only verify the canonicalised text data
+ and use the "-binary" flag (for the "cms" command line application) or set
+ the SMIME_BINARY/PKCS7_BINARY/CMS_BINARY flags (if using CMS_verify()).
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0g and 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
+
+ *) Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack
+
+ Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found
+ in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with
+ excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There
+ are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources
+ so this is considered safe.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 4th January 2018 by the OSS-fuzz
+ project.
+ (CVE-2018-0739)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC
+
+ Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is
+ effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each
+ byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as
+ authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the
+ security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the
+ HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 2nd March 2018 by Peter Waltenberg
+ (IBM).
+ (CVE-2018-0733)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Add a build target 'build_all_generated', to build all generated files
+ and only that. This can be used to prepare everything that requires
+ things like perl for a system that lacks perl and then move everything
+ to that system and do the rest of the build there.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Backport SSL_OP_NO_RENGOTIATION
+
+ OpenSSL 1.0.2 and below had the ability to disable renegotiation using the
+ (undocumented) SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS flag. Due to the opacity
+ changes this is no longer possible in 1.1.0. Therefore the new
+ SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option from 1.1.1-dev has been backported to
+ 1.1.0 to provide equivalent functionality.
+
+ Note that if an application built against 1.1.0h headers (or above) is run
+ using an older version of 1.1.0 (prior to 1.1.0h) then the option will be
+ accepted but nothing will happen, i.e. renegotiation will not be prevented.
+ [Matt Caswell]
*) Removed the OS390-Unix config target. It relied on a script that doesn't
exist.
implementations).
[Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]
- *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instad of ssize_t which isn't available on
+ *) Use type ossl_ssize_t instead of ssize_t which isn't available on
all platforms. Move ssize_t definition from e_os.h to the public
header file e_os2.h as it now appears in public header file cms.h
[Steve Henson]
reason texts, thereby removing some of the footprint that may not
be interesting if those errors aren't displayed anyway.
- NOTE: it's still possible for any application or module to have it's
+ NOTE: it's still possible for any application or module to have its
own set of error texts inserted. The routines are there, just not
used by default when no-err is given.
[Richard Levitte]
*) New OCSP utility. Allows OCSP requests to be generated or
read. The request can be sent to a responder and the output
- parsed, outputed or printed in text form. Not complete yet:
+ parsed, outputted or printed in text form. Not complete yet:
still needs to check the OCSP response validity.
[Steve Henson]
Changes between 0.9.6g and 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]
*) New function OPENSSL_cleanse(), which is used to cleanse a section of
- memory from it's contents. This is done with a counter that will
+ memory from its contents. This is done with a counter that will
place alternating values in each byte. This can be used to solve
two issues: 1) the removal of calls to memset() by highly optimizing
compilers, and 2) cleansing with other values than 0, since those can
[Andy Polyakov]
*) Modified SSL library such that the verify_callback that has been set
- specificly for an SSL object with SSL_set_verify() is actually being
+ specifically for an SSL object with SSL_set_verify() is actually being
used. Before the change, a verify_callback set with this function was
ignored and the verify_callback() set in the SSL_CTX at the time of
the call was used. New function X509_STORE_CTX_set_verify_cb() introduced
as other interfaces in OpenSSL, like the BIO interface.
NCONF_dump_* dump the internal storage of the configuration file,
which is useful for debugging. All other functions take the same
- arguments as the old CONF_* functions wth the exception of the
+ arguments as the old CONF_* functions with the exception of the
first that must be a `CONF *' instead of a `LHASH *'.
- To make it easer to use the new classes with the old CONF_* functions,
+ To make it easier to use the new classes with the old CONF_* functions,
the function CONF_set_default_method is provided.
[Richard Levitte]
than the old method: it now uses a modified version of Ulf's parser to
read the ANSI prototypes in all header files (thus the old K&R definitions
aren't needed for error creation any more) and do a better job of
- translating function codes into names. The old 'ASN1 error code imbedded
+ translating function codes into names. The old 'ASN1 error code embedded
in a comment' is no longer necessary and it doesn't use .err files which
have now been deleted. Also the error code call doesn't have to appear all
on one line (which resulted in some large lines...).
*) Add a useful kludge to allow package maintainers to specify compiler and
other platforms details on the command line without having to patch the
- Configure script everytime: One now can use ``perl Configure
+ Configure script every time: One now can use ``perl Configure
<id>:<details>'', i.e. platform ids are allowed to have details appended
to them (separated by colons). This is treated as there would be a static
pre-configured entry in Configure's %table under key <id> with value
*) A minor bug in ssl/s3_clnt.c where there would always be 4 0
bytes sent in the client random.
[Edward Bishop <ebishop@spyglass.com>]
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