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