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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 1.0.2s and OpenSSL 1.0.2t [10 Sep 2019] 9 10 o Fixed a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey 11 (CVE-2019-1563) 12 o For built-in EC curves, ensure an EC_GROUP built from the curve name is 13 used even when parsing explicit parameters 14 o Compute ECC cofactors if not provided during EC_GROUP construction 15 (CVE-2019-1547) 16 o Document issue with installation paths in diverse Windows builds 17 (CVE-2019-1552) 18 19 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2r and OpenSSL 1.0.2s [28 May 2019] 20 21 o None 22 23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2q and OpenSSL 1.0.2r [26 Feb 2019] 24 25 o 0-byte record padding oracle (CVE-2019-1559) 26 27 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2p and OpenSSL 1.0.2q [20 Nov 2018] 28 29 o Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar multiplication (CVE-2018-5407) 30 o Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0734) 31 32 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2o and OpenSSL 1.0.2p [14 Aug 2018] 33 34 o Client DoS due to large DH parameter (CVE-2018-0732) 35 o Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (CVE-2018-0737) 36 37 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2n and OpenSSL 1.0.2o [27 Mar 2018] 38 39 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the 40 stack (CVE-2018-0739) 41 42 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2m and OpenSSL 1.0.2n [7 Dec 2017] 43 44 o Read/write after SSL object in error state (CVE-2017-3737) 45 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738) 46 47 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2l and OpenSSL 1.0.2m [2 Nov 2017] 48 49 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736) 50 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735) 51 52 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2k and OpenSSL 1.0.2l [25 May 2017] 53 54 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw 55 56 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2j and OpenSSL 1.0.2k [26 Jan 2017] 57 58 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731) 59 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732) 60 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055) 61 62 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2i and OpenSSL 1.0.2j [26 Sep 2016] 63 64 o Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052) 65 66 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.0.2i [22 Sep 2016] 67 68 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) 69 o SWEET32 Mitigation (CVE-2016-2183) 70 o OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) 71 o Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) 72 o OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) 73 o OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180) 74 o Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177) 75 o Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) 76 o DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) 77 o DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) 78 o Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) 79 80 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016] 81 82 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107) 83 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105) 84 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106) 85 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109) 86 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176) 87 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername 88 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN. 89 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from 90 the default. 91 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. 92 93 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016] 94 95 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL. 96 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers 97 (CVE-2016-0800) 98 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705) 99 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak 100 (CVE-2016-0798) 101 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption 102 (CVE-2016-0797) 103 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799) 104 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702) 105 106 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016] 107 108 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701) 109 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197) 110 111 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015] 112 113 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193) 114 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194) 115 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195) 116 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs 117 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short, 118 return an error 119 120 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015] 121 122 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) 123 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196) 124 125 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015] 126 127 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility 128 129 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015] 130 131 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788) 132 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789) 133 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790) 134 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792) 135 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791) 136 137 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015] 138 139 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291) 140 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290) 141 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207) 142 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286) 143 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208) 144 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287) 145 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289) 146 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293) 147 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787) 148 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285) 149 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209) 150 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288) 151 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers 152 153 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]: 154 155 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 156 o Support for DTLS 1.2 157 o TLS automatic EC curve selection. 158 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves 159 o SSL_CONF configuration API. 160 o TLS Brainpool support. 161 o ALPN support. 162 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH. 163 164 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015] 165 166 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms 167 168 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015] 169 170 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571 171 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206 172 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569 173 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572 174 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204 175 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205 176 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275 177 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570 178 179 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014] 180 181 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 182 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 183 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) 184 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 185 186 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] 187 188 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 189 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 190 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 191 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 192 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 193 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 194 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 195 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 196 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 197 198 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] 199 200 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 201 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 202 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 203 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 204 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 205 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 206 207 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] 208 209 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 210 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. 211 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 212 213 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] 214 215 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values 216 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 217 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 218 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 219 220 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: 221 222 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 223 224 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: 225 226 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. 227 o Include the fips configuration module. 228 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 229 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 230 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 231 232 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: 233 234 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 235 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. 236 237 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: 238 239 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. 240 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. 241 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 242 243 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: 244 245 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 246 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. 247 o Fix SEGV in AES code. 248 249 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: 250 251 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. 252 o SCTP support. 253 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. 254 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. 255 o Next Protocol Negotiation. 256 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. 257 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. 258 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. 259 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. 260 o SRP support. 261 262 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: 263 264 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 265 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 266 o Various DTLS fixes. 267 268 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: 269 270 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 271 272 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: 273 274 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 275 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 276 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 277 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 278 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 279 280 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: 281 282 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 283 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 284 o Protection against EC timing attacks. 285 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. 286 o Various DTLS fixes. 287 288 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: 289 290 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 291 292 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: 293 294 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 295 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 296 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. 297 o Fix various platform compilation issues. 298 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 299 300 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: 301 302 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 303 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 304 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. 305 306 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: 307 308 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. 309 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. 310 311 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: 312 313 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. 314 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. 315 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. 316 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 317 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 318 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 319 o ASN1 printing support. 320 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. 321 o RFC3161 time stamp support. 322 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. 323 o New generalised public key API utilities. 324 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. 325 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. 326 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. 327 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. 328 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. 329 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. 330 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. 331 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. 332 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. 333 334 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: 335 336 o CFB cipher definition fixes. 337 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. 338 339 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: 340 341 o Cipher definition fixes. 342 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. 343 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. 344 o SPKAC handling fixes. 345 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. 346 o Compression memory leak fixed. 347 o Compression session resumption fixed. 348 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. 349 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 350 351 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: 352 353 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. 354 355 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: 356 357 o Fix various build issues. 358 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) 359 360 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: 361 362 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) 363 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. 364 365 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: 366 367 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. 368 o Various precautionary measures. 369 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. 370 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. 371 372 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: 373 374 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. 375 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. 376 377 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: 378 379 o Add gcc 4.2 support. 380 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization 381 for VC++ build. 382 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 383 selected at compile time. 384 o DTLS improvements. 385 o RFC4507bis support. 386 o TLS Extensions support. 387 388 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: 389 390 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 391 o RFC3779 support. 392 393 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: 394 395 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 396 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 397 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm 398 399 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: 400 401 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 402 o New cipher Camellia 403 404 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: 405 406 o Cipher string fixes. 407 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. 408 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. 409 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). 410 o Zlib compression usage fixes. 411 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. 412 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. 413 414 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: 415 416 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 417 o Extended Windows CE support 418 419 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: 420 421 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to 422 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This 423 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. 424 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST 425 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. 426 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including 427 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. 428 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL 429 configuration file. 430 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. 431 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. 432 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking 433 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate 434 Makefile.shared. 435 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. 436 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules 437 automatically from specifically given directories. 438 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. 439 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. 440 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" 441 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker 442 function and an argument. 443 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). 444 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 445 Nehemiah processors. 446 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. 447 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. 448 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy 449 constraints and name constraints. 450 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL 451 configuration file. 452 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject 453 in the 'openssl ca' index file. 454 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using 455 'openssl ca -selfsign'. 456 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with 457 'openssl ca -create_serial'. 458 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. 459 o New BUF functions. 460 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all 461 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and 462 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. 463 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing 464 OpenSSL. 465 o New control functions for the error stack. 466 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME 467 processing. 468 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated 469 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the 470 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. 471 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other 472 affected functions. 473 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. 474 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). 475 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation 476 of X.509 path validation. 477 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and 478 AMD64. 479 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled 480 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new 481 argument form 'enable-xxx'. 482 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to 483 SHA-1. 484 o Added support for DTLS. 485 o New BIGNUM blinding. 486 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme 487 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. 488 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. 489 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. 490 o Added initial support for Win64. 491 o Added alternate pkg-config files. 492 493 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: 494 495 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. 496 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 497 498 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: 499 500 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 501 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 502 503 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: 504 505 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 506 507 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: 508 509 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. 510 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. 511 512 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: 513 514 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. 515 516 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: 517 518 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 519 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing 520 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations 521 522 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: 523 524 o More compilation issues fixed. 525 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. 526 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. 527 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. 528 o More constification. 529 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). 530 531 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: 532 533 o Several compilation issues fixed. 534 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. 535 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. 536 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. 537 o Performance improvements. 538 539 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: 540 541 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. 542 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. 543 544 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: 545 546 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 547 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 548 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 549 o Multiple X509 verification fixes 550 o Speed up HMAC and other operations 551 552 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: 553 554 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 555 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 556 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 557 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 558 559 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: 560 561 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 562 Bleichbacher's attack 563 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 564 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 565 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 566 o Build: shared library support fixes. 567 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 568 o Documentation: fixes and additions. 569 570 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: 571 572 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 573 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 574 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 575 o IA32 assembler enhancements. 576 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 577 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 578 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 579 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 580 581 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: 582 583 o New library section OCSP. 584 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 585 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 586 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 587 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 588 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 589 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 590 a separate distribution. 591 o New elliptic curve library section. 592 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 593 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 594 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 595 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 596 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 597 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 598 o Support for pkg-config. 599 o Lots of new manuals. 600 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 601 functions. 602 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 603 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 604 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 605 future). 606 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 607 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 608 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 609 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 610 and help optimizers. 611 o Finally remove references to RSAref. 612 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 613 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 614 Processing, IBM 4758. 615 o A few new engines added in the demos area. 616 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 617 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 618 EGD style random sources at several locations. 619 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 620 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 621 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 622 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 623 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 624 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 625 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 626 627 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: 628 629 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 630 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 631 632 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: 633 634 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 635 Bleichbacher's attack 636 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 637 o Build: shared library support fixes. 638 639 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: 640 641 o Important security related bugfixes. 642 643 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: 644 645 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 646 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 647 o Better handling of SSL session caching. 648 o Better comparison of distinguished names. 649 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 650 o Support assembler code with Borland C. 651 o Fixes for length problems. 652 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 653 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 654 o Fixes for smaller building problems. 655 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 656 657 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: 658 659 o Important building fixes on Unix. 660 661 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: 662 663 o Various important bugfixes. 664 665 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: 666 667 o Important security related bugfixes. 668 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 669 670 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: 671 672 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 673 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 674 675 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: 676 677 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 678 o BIGNUM library fixes. 679 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 680 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 681 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 682 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 683 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 684 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 685 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 686 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 687 688 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: 689 690 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 691 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 692 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 693 attack. 694 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 695 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 696 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 697 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 698 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 699 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 700 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 701 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 702 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 703 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 704 705 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: 706 707 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 708 environment variables when running as root. 709 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 710 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 711 calculated signature. 712 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 713 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 714 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 715 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 716 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 717 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 718 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 719 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 720 memory checking routines. 721 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 722 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 723 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 724 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 725 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 726 o More documentation. 727 o New function BN_rand_range(). 728 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 729 730 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: 731 732 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 733 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 734 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 735 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 736 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 737 o MD4 now included. 738 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 739 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 740 o Enhanced EVP interface. 741 742 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 743 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 744 745 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: 746 747 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 748 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 749 o Support of Linux/IA64 750 o Assembler support for Mingw32 751 o New 'rand' application 752 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 753 754 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: 755 756 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 757 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 758 o Automation of 'req' application 759 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 760 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 761 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 762 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 763 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 764 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 765 o Usable certificate chain verification 766 o Certificate purpose checking 767 o Certificate trust settings 768 o Support of authority information access extension 769 o Extensions in certificate requests 770 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 771 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 772 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 773 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 774 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 775 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 776 data 777 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 778 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 779 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 780 RSA functionality 781 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 782 via a per-thread stack 783 o PRNG robustness improved 784 o EGD support 785 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 786 o Faster DSA parameter generation 787 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 788 o Experimental MacOS support 789 790 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: 791 792 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 793 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 794 form 795 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 796 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 797 o Avoid various memory leaks 798 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 799 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 800 801 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: 802 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 803 o RSA OEAP related fixes 804 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 805 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 806 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 807 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 808 extension support 809 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 810 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 811 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 812 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 813 o Option to disable selected ciphers 814 815 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: 816 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 817 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 818 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 819 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 820 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 821 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 822 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 823 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 824 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 825 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 826 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 827 o Overhauled Win32 builds 828 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 829 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 830 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 831 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 832 o Overhauled Perl interface 833 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 834 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 835 o Lots of bug fixes. 836 837 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: 838 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 839 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 840 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 841 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 842 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 843 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 844 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 845 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 846 o Support for various new platforms 847 848