NEWS revision 269686
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 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] 9 10 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 11 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 12 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 13 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 14 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 15 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 16 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 17 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 18 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 19 20 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] 21 22 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 23 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 24 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 25 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 26 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 27 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 28 29 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] 30 31 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 32 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. 33 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 34 35 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] 36 37 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values 38 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 39 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 40 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 41 42 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: 43 44 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 45 46 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: 47 48 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. 49 o Include the fips configuration module. 50 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 51 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 52 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 53 54 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: 55 56 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 57 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. 58 59 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: 60 61 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. 62 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. 63 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 64 65 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: 66 67 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 68 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. 69 o Fix SEGV in AES code. 70 71 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: 72 73 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. 74 o SCTP support. 75 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. 76 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. 77 o Next Protocol Negotiation. 78 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. 79 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. 80 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. 81 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. 82 o SRP support. 83 84 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0j and OpenSSL 1.0.0k [5 Feb 2013]: 85 86 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 87 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 88 89 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0i and OpenSSL 1.0.0j [10 May 2012]: 90 91 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 92 93 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.0i [19 Apr 2012]: 94 95 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 96 97 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: 98 99 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 100 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 101 o Various DTLS fixes. 102 103 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: 104 105 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 106 107 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: 108 109 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 110 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 111 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 112 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 113 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 114 115 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: 116 117 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 118 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 119 o Protection against EC timing attacks. 120 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. 121 o Various DTLS fixes. 122 123 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: 124 125 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 126 127 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: 128 129 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 130 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 131 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. 132 o Fix various platform compilation issues. 133 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 134 135 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: 136 137 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 138 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 139 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. 140 141 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: 142 143 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. 144 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. 145 146 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: 147 148 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. 149 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. 150 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. 151 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 152 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 153 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 154 o ASN1 printing support. 155 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. 156 o RFC3161 time stamp support. 157 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. 158 o New generalised public key API utilities. 159 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. 160 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. 161 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. 162 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. 163 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. 164 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. 165 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. 166 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. 167 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. 168 169 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]: 170 171 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 172 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 173 174 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]: 175 176 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 177 178 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]: 179 180 o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110) 181 182 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]: 183 184 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 185 186 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]: 187 188 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 189 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 190 o Various DTLS fixes. 191 192 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]: 193 194 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 195 196 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]: 197 198 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 199 o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109 200 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 201 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 202 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 203 204 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]: 205 206 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 207 208 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]: 209 210 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 211 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 212 213 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]: 214 215 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 216 217 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]: 218 219 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742. 220 o Various DTLS fixes. 221 o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added. 222 o Fix for no-rc4 compilation. 223 o Chil ENGINE unload workaround. 224 225 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: 226 227 o CFB cipher definition fixes. 228 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. 229 230 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: 231 232 o Cipher definition fixes. 233 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. 234 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. 235 o SPKAC handling fixes. 236 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. 237 o Compression memory leak fixed. 238 o Compression session resumption fixed. 239 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. 240 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 241 242 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: 243 244 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. 245 246 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: 247 248 o Fix various build issues. 249 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) 250 251 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: 252 253 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) 254 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. 255 256 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: 257 258 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. 259 o Various precautionary measures. 260 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. 261 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. 262 263 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: 264 265 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. 266 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. 267 268 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: 269 270 o Add gcc 4.2 support. 271 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization 272 for VC++ build. 273 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 274 selected at compile time. 275 o DTLS improvements. 276 o RFC4507bis support. 277 o TLS Extensions support. 278 279 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: 280 281 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 282 o RFC3779 support. 283 284 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: 285 286 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 287 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 288 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm 289 290 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: 291 292 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 293 o New cipher Camellia 294 295 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: 296 297 o Cipher string fixes. 298 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. 299 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. 300 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). 301 o Zlib compression usage fixes. 302 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. 303 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. 304 305 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: 306 307 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 308 o Extended Windows CE support 309 310 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: 311 312 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to 313 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This 314 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. 315 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST 316 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. 317 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including 318 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. 319 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL 320 configuration file. 321 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. 322 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. 323 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking 324 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate 325 Makefile.shared. 326 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. 327 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules 328 automatically from specifically given directories. 329 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. 330 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. 331 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" 332 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker 333 function and an argument. 334 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). 335 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 336 Nehemiah processors. 337 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. 338 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. 339 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy 340 constraints and name constraints. 341 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL 342 configuration file. 343 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject 344 in the 'openssl ca' index file. 345 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using 346 'openssl ca -selfsign'. 347 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with 348 'openssl ca -create_serial'. 349 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. 350 o New BUF functions. 351 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all 352 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and 353 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. 354 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing 355 OpenSSL. 356 o New control functions for the error stack. 357 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME 358 processing. 359 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated 360 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the 361 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. 362 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other 363 affected functions. 364 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. 365 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). 366 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation 367 of X.509 path validation. 368 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and 369 AMD64. 370 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled 371 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new 372 argument form 'enable-xxx'. 373 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to 374 SHA-1. 375 o Added support for DTLS. 376 o New BIGNUM blinding. 377 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme 378 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. 379 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. 380 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. 381 o Added initial support for Win64. 382 o Added alternate pkg-config files. 383 384 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: 385 386 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. 387 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 388 389 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: 390 391 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 392 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 393 394 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: 395 396 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 397 398 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: 399 400 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. 401 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. 402 403 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: 404 405 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. 406 407 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: 408 409 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 410 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing 411 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations 412 413 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: 414 415 o More compilation issues fixed. 416 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. 417 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. 418 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. 419 o More constification. 420 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). 421 422 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: 423 424 o Several compilation issues fixed. 425 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. 426 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. 427 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. 428 o Performance improvements. 429 430 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: 431 432 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. 433 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. 434 435 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: 436 437 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 438 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 439 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 440 o Multiple X509 verification fixes 441 o Speed up HMAC and other operations 442 443 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: 444 445 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 446 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 447 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 448 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 449 450 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: 451 452 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 453 Bleichbacher's attack 454 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 455 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 456 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 457 o Build: shared library support fixes. 458 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 459 o Documentation: fixes and additions. 460 461 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: 462 463 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 464 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 465 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 466 o IA32 assembler enhancements. 467 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 468 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 469 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 470 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 471 472 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: 473 474 o New library section OCSP. 475 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 476 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 477 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 478 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 479 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 480 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 481 a separate distribution. 482 o New elliptic curve library section. 483 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 484 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 485 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 486 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 487 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 488 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 489 o Support for pkg-config. 490 o Lots of new manuals. 491 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 492 functions. 493 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 494 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 495 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 496 future). 497 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 498 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 499 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 500 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 501 and help optimizers. 502 o Finally remove references to RSAref. 503 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 504 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 505 Processing, IBM 4758. 506 o A few new engines added in the demos area. 507 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 508 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 509 EGD style random sources at several locations. 510 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 511 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 512 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 513 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 514 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 515 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 516 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 517 518 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: 519 520 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 521 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 522 523 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: 524 525 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 526 Bleichbacher's attack 527 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 528 o Build: shared library support fixes. 529 530 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: 531 532 o Important security related bugfixes. 533 534 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: 535 536 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 537 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 538 o Better handling of SSL session caching. 539 o Better comparison of distinguished names. 540 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 541 o Support assembler code with Borland C. 542 o Fixes for length problems. 543 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 544 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 545 o Fixes for smaller building problems. 546 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 547 548 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: 549 550 o Important building fixes on Unix. 551 552 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: 553 554 o Various important bugfixes. 555 556 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: 557 558 o Important security related bugfixes. 559 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 560 561 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: 562 563 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 564 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 565 566 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: 567 568 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 569 o BIGNUM library fixes. 570 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 571 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 572 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 573 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 574 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 575 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 576 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 577 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 578 579 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: 580 581 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 582 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 583 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 584 attack. 585 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 586 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 587 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 588 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 589 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 590 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 591 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 592 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 593 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 594 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 595 596 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: 597 598 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 599 environment variables when running as root. 600 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 601 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 602 calculated signature. 603 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 604 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 605 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 606 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 607 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 608 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 609 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 610 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 611 memory checking routines. 612 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 613 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 614 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 615 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 616 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 617 o More documentation. 618 o New function BN_rand_range(). 619 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 620 621 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: 622 623 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 624 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 625 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 626 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 627 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 628 o MD4 now included. 629 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 630 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 631 o Enhanced EVP interface. 632 633 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 634 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 635 636 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: 637 638 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 639 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 640 o Support of Linux/IA64 641 o Assembler support for Mingw32 642 o New 'rand' application 643 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 644 645 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: 646 647 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 648 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 649 o Automation of 'req' application 650 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 651 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 652 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 653 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 654 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 655 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 656 o Usable certificate chain verification 657 o Certificate purpose checking 658 o Certificate trust settings 659 o Support of authority information access extension 660 o Extensions in certificate requests 661 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 662 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 663 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 664 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 665 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 666 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 667 data 668 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 669 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 670 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 671 RSA functionality 672 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 673 via a per-thread stack 674 o PRNG robustness improved 675 o EGD support 676 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 677 o Faster DSA parameter generation 678 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 679 o Experimental MacOS support 680 681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: 682 683 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 684 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 685 form 686 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 687 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 688 o Avoid various memory leaks 689 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 690 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 691 692 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: 693 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 694 o RSA OEAP related fixes 695 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 696 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 697 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 698 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 699 extension support 700 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 701 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 702 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 703 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 704 o Option to disable selected ciphers 705 706 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: 707 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 708 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 709 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 710 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 711 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 712 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 713 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 714 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 715 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 716 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 717 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 718 o Overhauled Win32 builds 719 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 720 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 721 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 722 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 723 o Overhauled Perl interface 724 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 725 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 726 o Lots of bug fixes. 727 728 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: 729 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 730 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 731 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 732 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 733 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 734 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 735 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 736 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 737 o Support for various new platforms 738 739