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1 2 NEWS 3 ==== 4 5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL 6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. 7 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2n and OpenSSL 1.0.2o [27 Mar 2018] 9 10 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the 11 stack (CVE-2018-0739) 12 13 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2m and OpenSSL 1.0.2n [7 Dec 2017] 14 15 o Read/write after SSL object in error state (CVE-2017-3737) 16 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738) 17 18 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2l and OpenSSL 1.0.2m [2 Nov 2017] 19 20 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736) 21 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735) 22 23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2k and OpenSSL 1.0.2l [25 May 2017] 24 25 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw 26 27 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2j and OpenSSL 1.0.2k [26 Jan 2017] 28 29 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731) 30 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732) 31 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055) 32 33 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2i and OpenSSL 1.0.2j [26 Sep 2016] 34 35 o Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052) 36 37 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.0.2i [22 Sep 2016] 38 39 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) 40 o SWEET32 Mitigation (CVE-2016-2183) 41 o OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) 42 o Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) 43 o OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) 44 o OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180) 45 o Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177) 46 o Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) 47 o DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) 48 o DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) 49 o Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) 50 51 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016] 52 53 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107) 54 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105) 55 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106) 56 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109) 57 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176) 58 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername 59 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN. 60 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from 61 the default. 62 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. 63 64 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016] 65 66 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL. 67 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers 68 (CVE-2016-0800) 69 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705) 70 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak 71 (CVE-2016-0798) 72 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption 73 (CVE-2016-0797) 74 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799) 75 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702) 76 77 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016] 78 79 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701) 80 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197) 81 82 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015] 83 84 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193) 85 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194) 86 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195) 87 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs 88 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short, 89 return an error 90 91 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015] 92 93 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) 94 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196) 95 96 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015] 97 98 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility 99 100 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015] 101 102 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788) 103 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789) 104 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790) 105 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792) 106 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791) 107 108 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015] 109 110 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291) 111 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290) 112 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207) 113 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286) 114 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208) 115 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287) 116 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289) 117 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293) 118 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787) 119 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285) 120 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209) 121 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288) 122 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers 123 124 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]: 125 126 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 127 o Support for DTLS 1.2 128 o TLS automatic EC curve selection. 129 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves 130 o SSL_CONF configuration API. 131 o TLS Brainpool support. 132 o ALPN support. 133 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH. 134 135 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015] 136 137 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms 138 139 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015] 140 141 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571 142 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206 143 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569 144 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572 145 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204 146 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205 147 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275 148 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570 149 150 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014] 151 152 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 153 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 154 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) 155 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 156 157 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] 158 159 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 160 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 161 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 162 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 163 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 164 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 165 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 166 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 167 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 168 169 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] 170 171 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 172 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 173 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 174 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 175 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 176 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 177 178 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] 179 180 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 181 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. 182 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 183 184 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] 185 186 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values 187 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 188 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 189 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 190 191 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: 192 193 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 194 195 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: 196 197 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. 198 o Include the fips configuration module. 199 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 200 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 201 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 202 203 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: 204 205 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 206 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. 207 208 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: 209 210 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. 211 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. 212 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 213 214 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: 215 216 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 217 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. 218 o Fix SEGV in AES code. 219 220 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: 221 222 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. 223 o SCTP support. 224 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. 225 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. 226 o Next Protocol Negotiation. 227 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. 228 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. 229 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. 230 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. 231 o SRP support. 232 233 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: 234 235 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 236 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 237 o Various DTLS fixes. 238 239 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: 240 241 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 242 243 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: 244 245 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 246 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 247 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 248 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 249 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 250 251 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: 252 253 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 254 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 255 o Protection against EC timing attacks. 256 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. 257 o Various DTLS fixes. 258 259 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: 260 261 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 262 263 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: 264 265 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 266 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 267 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. 268 o Fix various platform compilation issues. 269 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 270 271 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: 272 273 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 274 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 275 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. 276 277 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: 278 279 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. 280 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. 281 282 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: 283 284 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. 285 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. 286 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. 287 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 288 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 289 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 290 o ASN1 printing support. 291 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. 292 o RFC3161 time stamp support. 293 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. 294 o New generalised public key API utilities. 295 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. 296 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. 297 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. 298 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. 299 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. 300 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. 301 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. 302 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. 303 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. 304 305 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: 306 307 o CFB cipher definition fixes. 308 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. 309 310 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: 311 312 o Cipher definition fixes. 313 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. 314 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. 315 o SPKAC handling fixes. 316 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. 317 o Compression memory leak fixed. 318 o Compression session resumption fixed. 319 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. 320 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 321 322 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: 323 324 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. 325 326 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: 327 328 o Fix various build issues. 329 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) 330 331 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: 332 333 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) 334 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. 335 336 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: 337 338 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. 339 o Various precautionary measures. 340 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. 341 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. 342 343 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: 344 345 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. 346 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. 347 348 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: 349 350 o Add gcc 4.2 support. 351 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization 352 for VC++ build. 353 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 354 selected at compile time. 355 o DTLS improvements. 356 o RFC4507bis support. 357 o TLS Extensions support. 358 359 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: 360 361 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 362 o RFC3779 support. 363 364 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: 365 366 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 367 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 368 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm 369 370 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: 371 372 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 373 o New cipher Camellia 374 375 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: 376 377 o Cipher string fixes. 378 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. 379 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. 380 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). 381 o Zlib compression usage fixes. 382 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. 383 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. 384 385 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: 386 387 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 388 o Extended Windows CE support 389 390 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: 391 392 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to 393 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This 394 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. 395 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST 396 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. 397 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including 398 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. 399 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL 400 configuration file. 401 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. 402 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. 403 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking 404 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate 405 Makefile.shared. 406 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. 407 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules 408 automatically from specifically given directories. 409 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. 410 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. 411 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" 412 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker 413 function and an argument. 414 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). 415 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 416 Nehemiah processors. 417 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. 418 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. 419 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy 420 constraints and name constraints. 421 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL 422 configuration file. 423 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject 424 in the 'openssl ca' index file. 425 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using 426 'openssl ca -selfsign'. 427 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with 428 'openssl ca -create_serial'. 429 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. 430 o New BUF functions. 431 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all 432 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and 433 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. 434 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing 435 OpenSSL. 436 o New control functions for the error stack. 437 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME 438 processing. 439 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated 440 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the 441 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. 442 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other 443 affected functions. 444 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. 445 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). 446 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation 447 of X.509 path validation. 448 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and 449 AMD64. 450 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled 451 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new 452 argument form 'enable-xxx'. 453 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to 454 SHA-1. 455 o Added support for DTLS. 456 o New BIGNUM blinding. 457 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme 458 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. 459 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. 460 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. 461 o Added initial support for Win64. 462 o Added alternate pkg-config files. 463 464 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: 465 466 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. 467 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 468 469 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: 470 471 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 472 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 473 474 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: 475 476 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 477 478 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: 479 480 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. 481 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. 482 483 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: 484 485 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. 486 487 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: 488 489 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 490 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing 491 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations 492 493 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: 494 495 o More compilation issues fixed. 496 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. 497 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. 498 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. 499 o More constification. 500 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). 501 502 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: 503 504 o Several compilation issues fixed. 505 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. 506 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. 507 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. 508 o Performance improvements. 509 510 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: 511 512 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. 513 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. 514 515 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: 516 517 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 518 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 519 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 520 o Multiple X509 verification fixes 521 o Speed up HMAC and other operations 522 523 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: 524 525 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 526 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 527 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 528 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 529 530 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: 531 532 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 533 Bleichbacher's attack 534 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 535 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 536 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 537 o Build: shared library support fixes. 538 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 539 o Documentation: fixes and additions. 540 541 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: 542 543 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 544 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 545 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 546 o IA32 assembler enhancements. 547 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 548 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 549 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 550 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 551 552 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: 553 554 o New library section OCSP. 555 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 556 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 557 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 558 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 559 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 560 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 561 a separate distribution. 562 o New elliptic curve library section. 563 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 564 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 565 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 566 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 567 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 568 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 569 o Support for pkg-config. 570 o Lots of new manuals. 571 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 572 functions. 573 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 574 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 575 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 576 future). 577 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 578 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 579 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 580 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 581 and help optimizers. 582 o Finally remove references to RSAref. 583 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 584 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 585 Processing, IBM 4758. 586 o A few new engines added in the demos area. 587 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 588 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 589 EGD style random sources at several locations. 590 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 591 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 592 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 593 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 594 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 595 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 596 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 597 598 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: 599 600 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 601 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 602 603 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: 604 605 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 606 Bleichbacher's attack 607 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 608 o Build: shared library support fixes. 609 610 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: 611 612 o Important security related bugfixes. 613 614 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: 615 616 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 617 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 618 o Better handling of SSL session caching. 619 o Better comparison of distinguished names. 620 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 621 o Support assembler code with Borland C. 622 o Fixes for length problems. 623 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 624 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 625 o Fixes for smaller building problems. 626 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 627 628 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: 629 630 o Important building fixes on Unix. 631 632 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: 633 634 o Various important bugfixes. 635 636 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: 637 638 o Important security related bugfixes. 639 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 640 641 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: 642 643 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 644 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 645 646 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: 647 648 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 649 o BIGNUM library fixes. 650 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 651 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 652 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 653 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 654 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 655 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 656 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 657 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 658 659 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: 660 661 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 662 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 663 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 664 attack. 665 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 666 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 667 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 668 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 669 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 670 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 671 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 672 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 673 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 674 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 675 676 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: 677 678 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 679 environment variables when running as root. 680 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 681 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 682 calculated signature. 683 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 684 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 685 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 686 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 687 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 688 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 689 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 690 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 691 memory checking routines. 692 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 693 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 694 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 695 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 696 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 697 o More documentation. 698 o New function BN_rand_range(). 699 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 700 701 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: 702 703 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 704 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 705 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 706 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 707 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 708 o MD4 now included. 709 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 710 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 711 o Enhanced EVP interface. 712 713 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 714 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 715 716 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: 717 718 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 719 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 720 o Support of Linux/IA64 721 o Assembler support for Mingw32 722 o New 'rand' application 723 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 724 725 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: 726 727 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 728 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 729 o Automation of 'req' application 730 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 731 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 732 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 733 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 734 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 735 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 736 o Usable certificate chain verification 737 o Certificate purpose checking 738 o Certificate trust settings 739 o Support of authority information access extension 740 o Extensions in certificate requests 741 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 742 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 743 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 744 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 745 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 746 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 747 data 748 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 749 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 750 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 751 RSA functionality 752 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 753 via a per-thread stack 754 o PRNG robustness improved 755 o EGD support 756 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 757 o Faster DSA parameter generation 758 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 759 o Experimental MacOS support 760 761 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: 762 763 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 764 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 765 form 766 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 767 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 768 o Avoid various memory leaks 769 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 770 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 771 772 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: 773 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 774 o RSA OEAP related fixes 775 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 776 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 777 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 778 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 779 extension support 780 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 781 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 782 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 783 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 784 o Option to disable selected ciphers 785 786 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: 787 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 788 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 789 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 790 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 791 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 792 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 793 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 794 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 795 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 796 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 797 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 798 o Overhauled Win32 builds 799 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 800 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 801 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 802 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 803 o Overhauled Perl interface 804 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 805 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 806 o Lots of bug fixes. 807 808 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: 809 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 810 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 811 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 812 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 813 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 814 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 815 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 816 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 817 o Support for various new platforms 818 819