OpenSSL CHANGES
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- Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [xx XXX xxxx]
+ This is a high-level summary of the most important changes.
+ For a full list of changes, see the git commit log; for example,
+ https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/ and pick the appropriate
+ release branch.
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.0i [xx XXX xxxx]
+
+ *) 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.
+ [Rich Salz]
+
+ *) rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64
+
+ There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure
+ used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected.
+ Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this
+ defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.
+ Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the
+ work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed
+ offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be
+ significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server
+ would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is
+ no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
+
+ This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions
+ like Intel Haswell (4th generation).
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by David Benjamin (Google). The issue
+ was originally found via the OSS-Fuzz project.
+ (CVE-2017-3738)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
+
+ *) bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
+
+ There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
+ procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
+ against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
+ perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
+ feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
+ deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
+ of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
+ likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
+ additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
+ private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
+ key that is shared between multiple clients.
+
+ This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions
+ like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
+ (CVE-2017-3736)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read
+
+ If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension,
+ OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. The most likely result
+ would be an erroneous display of the certificate in text format.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
+ (CVE-2017-3735)
+ [Rich Salz]
+
+ *) Ignore the '-named_curve auto' value for compatibility of applications
+ with OpenSSL 1.0.2.
+ [Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>]
+
+ *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
+ [Emilia Käsper]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0e and 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
+
+ *) Have 'config' recognise 64-bit mingw and choose 'mingw64' as the target
+ platform rather than 'mingw'.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Remove the VMS-specific reimplementation of gmtime from crypto/o_times.c.
+ VMS C's RTL has a fully up to date gmtime() and gmtime_r() since V7.1,
+ which is the minimum version we support.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0d and 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
+
+ *) Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash
+
+ During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
+ negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then
+ this can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependant on ciphersuite). Both clients
+ and servers are affected.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
+ (CVE-2017-3733)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0c and 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
+
+ *) Truncated packet could crash via OOB read
+
+ If one side of an SSL/TLS path is running on a 32-bit host and a specific
+ cipher is being used, then a truncated packet can cause that host to
+ perform an out-of-bounds read, usually resulting in a crash.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki of Google.
+ (CVE-2017-3731)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
- *)
+ *) Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash
+
+ If a malicious server supplies bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key
+ exchange then this can result in the client attempting to dereference a
+ NULL pointer leading to a client crash. This could be exploited in a Denial
+ of Service attack.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Guido Vranken.
+ (CVE-2017-3730)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
+
+ There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring
+ procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks
+ against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to
+ perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just
+ feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to
+ deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount
+ of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and
+ likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would
+ additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target
+ private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private
+ key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by
+ default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very
+ similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by the OSS-Fuzz project.
+ (CVE-2017-3732)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
+
+ *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
+
+ TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
+ a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
+ crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
+ (CVE-2016-7054)
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) CMS Null dereference
+
+ Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
+ dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
+ type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
+ structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
+ Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
+ affected.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
+ (CVE-2016-7053)
+ [Stephen Henson]
+
+ *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
+
+ There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
+ multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
+ longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
+ and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
+ question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
+ of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
+ transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
+ erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
+ Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
+ presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
+ detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
+ multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
+ share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
+ Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
+
+ This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
+ initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
+ providing reproducible case.
+ (CVE-2016-7055)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
+ or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
+ prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
+ sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
+ as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
+
+ *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
+
+ The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
+ message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
+ store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
+ dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
+ write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
+ crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
+
+ This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
+ (CVE-2016-6309)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
+
+ *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
+
+ A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
+ extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
+ large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
+ memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
+ Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
+ configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
+ the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
+ (CVE-2016-6304)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
+
+ OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
+ sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
+ Denial Of Service attack.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
+ (CVE-2016-6305)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
+ dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
+
+ A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
+ message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
+ this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
+ peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
+ being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
+ 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
+ the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
+ OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
+ to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
+ memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
+ place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
+ that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed connection in a timely
+ manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
+ again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
+ nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
+
+ 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
+ that the connection fails
+ or
+ 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
+ very little free memory
+ or
+ 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
+ multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
+ connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
+ memory to service the multiple requests.
+
+ Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
+ transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
+ subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
+ increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
+ memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
+ (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
+ had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
+ assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
+ support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
+ lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
+ security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
+ prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
+ [Andy Polyakov]
Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
*) Add X25519 support.
Add ASN.1 and EVP_PKEY methods for X25519. This includes support
for public and private key encoding using the format documented in
- draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The coresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
+ draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-02. The corresponding EVP_PKEY method supports
key generation and key derivation.
TLS support complies with draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-08 and uses
template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
descrip.mms.tmpl.
+ With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
+ and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
+ on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
+ cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
+ libraries" in INSTALL.
+
We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
[Richard Levitte]
done while fixing the error code for the key-too-small case.
[Annie Yousar <a.yousar@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]
- *) CA.sh has been removmed; use CA.pl instead.
+ *) CA.sh has been removed; use CA.pl instead.
[Rich Salz]
*) Removed old DES API.
to work with OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN defined.
[Steve Henson]
- *) Add SRP support.
- [Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
+ *) A long standing patch to add support for SRP from EdelWeb (Peter
+ Sylvester and Christophe Renou) was integrated.
+ [Christophe Renou <christophe.renou@edelweb.fr>, Peter Sylvester
+ <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr>, Tom Wu <tjw@cs.stanford.edu>, and
+ Ben Laurie]
*) Add functions to copy EVP_PKEY_METHOD and retrieve flags and id.
[Steve Henson]
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