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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 1.0.2o and OpenSSL 1.0.2p [14 Aug 2018] 9 10 o Client DoS due to large DH parameter (CVE-2018-0732) 11 o Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (CVE-2018-0737) 12 13 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2n and OpenSSL 1.0.2o [27 Mar 2018] 14 15 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the 16 stack (CVE-2018-0739) 17 18 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2m and OpenSSL 1.0.2n [7 Dec 2017] 19 20 o Read/write after SSL object in error state (CVE-2017-3737) 21 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738) 22 23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2l and OpenSSL 1.0.2m [2 Nov 2017] 24 25 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736) 26 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735) 27 28 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2k and OpenSSL 1.0.2l [25 May 2017] 29 30 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw 31 32 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2j and OpenSSL 1.0.2k [26 Jan 2017] 33 34 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731) 35 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732) 36 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055) 37 38 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2i and OpenSSL 1.0.2j [26 Sep 2016] 39 40 o Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052) 41 42 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.0.2i [22 Sep 2016] 43 44 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) 45 o SWEET32 Mitigation (CVE-2016-2183) 46 o OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) 47 o Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) 48 o OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) 49 o OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180) 50 o Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177) 51 o Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) 52 o DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) 53 o DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) 54 o Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) 55 56 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016] 57 58 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107) 59 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105) 60 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106) 61 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109) 62 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176) 63 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername 64 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN. 65 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from 66 the default. 67 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. 68 69 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016] 70 71 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL. 72 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers 73 (CVE-2016-0800) 74 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705) 75 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak 76 (CVE-2016-0798) 77 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption 78 (CVE-2016-0797) 79 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799) 80 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702) 81 82 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016] 83 84 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701) 85 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197) 86 87 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015] 88 89 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193) 90 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194) 91 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195) 92 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs 93 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short, 94 return an error 95 96 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015] 97 98 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) 99 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196) 100 101 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015] 102 103 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility 104 105 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015] 106 107 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788) 108 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789) 109 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790) 110 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792) 111 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791) 112 113 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015] 114 115 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291) 116 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290) 117 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207) 118 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286) 119 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208) 120 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287) 121 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289) 122 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293) 123 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787) 124 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285) 125 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209) 126 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288) 127 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers 128 129 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]: 130 131 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 132 o Support for DTLS 1.2 133 o TLS automatic EC curve selection. 134 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves 135 o SSL_CONF configuration API. 136 o TLS Brainpool support. 137 o ALPN support. 138 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH. 139 140 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015] 141 142 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms 143 144 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015] 145 146 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571 147 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206 148 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569 149 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572 150 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204 151 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205 152 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275 153 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570 154 155 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014] 156 157 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 158 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 159 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) 160 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 161 162 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] 163 164 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 165 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 166 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 167 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 168 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 169 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 170 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 171 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 172 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 173 174 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] 175 176 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 177 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 178 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 179 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 180 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 181 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 182 183 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] 184 185 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 186 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. 187 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 188 189 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] 190 191 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values 192 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 193 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 194 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 195 196 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: 197 198 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 199 200 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: 201 202 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. 203 o Include the fips configuration module. 204 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 205 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 206 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 207 208 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: 209 210 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 211 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. 212 213 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: 214 215 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. 216 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. 217 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 218 219 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: 220 221 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 222 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. 223 o Fix SEGV in AES code. 224 225 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: 226 227 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. 228 o SCTP support. 229 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. 230 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. 231 o Next Protocol Negotiation. 232 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. 233 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. 234 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. 235 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. 236 o SRP support. 237 238 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: 239 240 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 241 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 242 o Various DTLS fixes. 243 244 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: 245 246 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 247 248 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: 249 250 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 251 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 252 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 253 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 254 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 255 256 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: 257 258 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 259 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 260 o Protection against EC timing attacks. 261 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. 262 o Various DTLS fixes. 263 264 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: 265 266 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 267 268 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: 269 270 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 271 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 272 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. 273 o Fix various platform compilation issues. 274 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 275 276 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: 277 278 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 279 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 280 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. 281 282 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: 283 284 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. 285 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. 286 287 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: 288 289 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. 290 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. 291 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. 292 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 293 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 294 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 295 o ASN1 printing support. 296 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. 297 o RFC3161 time stamp support. 298 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. 299 o New generalised public key API utilities. 300 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. 301 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. 302 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. 303 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. 304 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. 305 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. 306 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. 307 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. 308 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. 309 310 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: 311 312 o CFB cipher definition fixes. 313 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. 314 315 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: 316 317 o Cipher definition fixes. 318 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. 319 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. 320 o SPKAC handling fixes. 321 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. 322 o Compression memory leak fixed. 323 o Compression session resumption fixed. 324 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. 325 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 326 327 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: 328 329 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. 330 331 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: 332 333 o Fix various build issues. 334 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) 335 336 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: 337 338 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) 339 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. 340 341 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: 342 343 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. 344 o Various precautionary measures. 345 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. 346 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. 347 348 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: 349 350 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. 351 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. 352 353 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: 354 355 o Add gcc 4.2 support. 356 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization 357 for VC++ build. 358 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 359 selected at compile time. 360 o DTLS improvements. 361 o RFC4507bis support. 362 o TLS Extensions support. 363 364 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: 365 366 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 367 o RFC3779 support. 368 369 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: 370 371 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 372 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 373 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm 374 375 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: 376 377 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 378 o New cipher Camellia 379 380 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: 381 382 o Cipher string fixes. 383 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. 384 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. 385 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). 386 o Zlib compression usage fixes. 387 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. 388 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. 389 390 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: 391 392 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 393 o Extended Windows CE support 394 395 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: 396 397 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to 398 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This 399 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. 400 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST 401 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. 402 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including 403 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. 404 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL 405 configuration file. 406 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. 407 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. 408 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking 409 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate 410 Makefile.shared. 411 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. 412 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules 413 automatically from specifically given directories. 414 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. 415 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. 416 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" 417 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker 418 function and an argument. 419 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). 420 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 421 Nehemiah processors. 422 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. 423 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. 424 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy 425 constraints and name constraints. 426 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL 427 configuration file. 428 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject 429 in the 'openssl ca' index file. 430 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using 431 'openssl ca -selfsign'. 432 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with 433 'openssl ca -create_serial'. 434 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. 435 o New BUF functions. 436 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all 437 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and 438 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. 439 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing 440 OpenSSL. 441 o New control functions for the error stack. 442 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME 443 processing. 444 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated 445 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the 446 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. 447 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other 448 affected functions. 449 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. 450 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). 451 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation 452 of X.509 path validation. 453 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and 454 AMD64. 455 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled 456 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new 457 argument form 'enable-xxx'. 458 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to 459 SHA-1. 460 o Added support for DTLS. 461 o New BIGNUM blinding. 462 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme 463 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. 464 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. 465 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. 466 o Added initial support for Win64. 467 o Added alternate pkg-config files. 468 469 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: 470 471 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. 472 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 473 474 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: 475 476 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 477 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 478 479 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: 480 481 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 482 483 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: 484 485 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. 486 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. 487 488 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: 489 490 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. 491 492 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: 493 494 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 495 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing 496 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations 497 498 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: 499 500 o More compilation issues fixed. 501 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. 502 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. 503 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. 504 o More constification. 505 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). 506 507 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: 508 509 o Several compilation issues fixed. 510 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. 511 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. 512 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. 513 o Performance improvements. 514 515 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: 516 517 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. 518 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. 519 520 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: 521 522 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 523 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 524 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 525 o Multiple X509 verification fixes 526 o Speed up HMAC and other operations 527 528 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: 529 530 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 531 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 532 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 533 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 534 535 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: 536 537 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 538 Bleichbacher's attack 539 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 540 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 541 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 542 o Build: shared library support fixes. 543 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 544 o Documentation: fixes and additions. 545 546 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: 547 548 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 549 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 550 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 551 o IA32 assembler enhancements. 552 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 553 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 554 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 555 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 556 557 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: 558 559 o New library section OCSP. 560 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 561 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 562 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 563 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 564 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 565 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 566 a separate distribution. 567 o New elliptic curve library section. 568 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 569 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 570 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 571 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 572 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 573 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 574 o Support for pkg-config. 575 o Lots of new manuals. 576 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 577 functions. 578 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 579 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 580 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 581 future). 582 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 583 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 584 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 585 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 586 and help optimizers. 587 o Finally remove references to RSAref. 588 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 589 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 590 Processing, IBM 4758. 591 o A few new engines added in the demos area. 592 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 593 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 594 EGD style random sources at several locations. 595 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 596 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 597 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 598 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 599 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 600 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 601 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 602 603 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: 604 605 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 606 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 607 608 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: 609 610 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 611 Bleichbacher's attack 612 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 613 o Build: shared library support fixes. 614 615 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: 616 617 o Important security related bugfixes. 618 619 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: 620 621 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 622 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 623 o Better handling of SSL session caching. 624 o Better comparison of distinguished names. 625 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 626 o Support assembler code with Borland C. 627 o Fixes for length problems. 628 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 629 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 630 o Fixes for smaller building problems. 631 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 632 633 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: 634 635 o Important building fixes on Unix. 636 637 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: 638 639 o Various important bugfixes. 640 641 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: 642 643 o Important security related bugfixes. 644 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 645 646 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: 647 648 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 649 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 650 651 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: 652 653 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 654 o BIGNUM library fixes. 655 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 656 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 657 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 658 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 659 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 660 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 661 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 662 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 663 664 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: 665 666 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 667 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 668 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 669 attack. 670 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 671 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 672 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 673 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 674 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 675 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 676 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 677 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 678 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 679 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 680 681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: 682 683 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 684 environment variables when running as root. 685 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 686 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 687 calculated signature. 688 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 689 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 690 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 691 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 692 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 693 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 694 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 695 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 696 memory checking routines. 697 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 698 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 699 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 700 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 701 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 702 o More documentation. 703 o New function BN_rand_range(). 704 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 705 706 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: 707 708 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 709 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 710 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 711 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 712 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 713 o MD4 now included. 714 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 715 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 716 o Enhanced EVP interface. 717 718 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 719 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 720 721 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: 722 723 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 724 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 725 o Support of Linux/IA64 726 o Assembler support for Mingw32 727 o New 'rand' application 728 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 729 730 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: 731 732 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 733 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 734 o Automation of 'req' application 735 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 736 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 737 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 738 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 739 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 740 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 741 o Usable certificate chain verification 742 o Certificate purpose checking 743 o Certificate trust settings 744 o Support of authority information access extension 745 o Extensions in certificate requests 746 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 747 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 748 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 749 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 750 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 751 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 752 data 753 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 754 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 755 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 756 RSA functionality 757 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 758 via a per-thread stack 759 o PRNG robustness improved 760 o EGD support 761 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 762 o Faster DSA parameter generation 763 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 764 o Experimental MacOS support 765 766 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: 767 768 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 769 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 770 form 771 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 772 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 773 o Avoid various memory leaks 774 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 775 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 776 777 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: 778 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 779 o RSA OEAP related fixes 780 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 781 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 782 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 783 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 784 extension support 785 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 786 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 787 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 788 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 789 o Option to disable selected ciphers 790 791 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: 792 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 793 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 794 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 795 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 796 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 797 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 798 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 799 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 800 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 801 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 802 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 803 o Overhauled Win32 builds 804 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 805 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 806 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 807 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 808 o Overhauled Perl interface 809 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 810 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 811 o Lots of bug fixes. 812 813 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: 814 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 815 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 816 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 817 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 818 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 819 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 820 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 821 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 822 o Support for various new platforms 823 824