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@@ -5,48 +5,151 @@ This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. - Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2n and OpenSSL 1.0.2o [27 Mar 2018] + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0i and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018] + + o Support for TLSv1.3 added (see https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3 + for further important information). The TLSv1.3 implementation includes: + o Fully compliant implementation of RFC8446 (TLSv1.3) on by default + o Early data (0-RTT) + o Post-handshake authentication and key update + o Middlebox Compatibility Mode + o TLSv1.3 PSKs + o Support for all five RFC8446 ciphersuites + o RSA-PSS signature algorithms (backported to TLSv1.2) + o Configurable session ticket support + o Stateless server support + o Rewrite of the packet construction code for "safer" packet handling + o Rewrite of the extension handling code + o Complete rewrite of the OpenSSL random number generator to introduce the + following capabilities + o The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to + NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. + o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining. + o There is a public and private DRBG instance. + o The DRBG instances are fork-safe. + o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled. + o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free + operation + o Support for various new cryptographic algorithms including: + o SHA3 + o SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 + o EdDSA (both Ed25519 and Ed448) including X509 and TLS support + o X448 (adding to the existing X25519 support in 1.1.0) + o Multi-prime RSA + o SM2 + o SM3 + o SM4 + o SipHash + o ARIA (including TLS support) + o Significant Side-Channel attack security improvements + o Add a new ClientHello callback to provide the ability to adjust the SSL + object at an early stage. + o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support + o A new STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of + stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other + objects. + o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm. + o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure. + o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes + o Rewrite of devcrypto engine + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0h and OpenSSL 1.1.0i [under development] + + o Client DoS due to large DH parameter (CVE-2018-0732) + o Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (CVE-2018-0737) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development] o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack (CVE-2018-0739) - - Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2m and OpenSSL 1.0.2n [7 Dec 2017] - - o Read/write after SSL object in error state (CVE-2017-3737) + o Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC (CVE-2018-0733) o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738) - Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2l and OpenSSL 1.0.2m [2 Nov 2017] + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017] o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736) o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735) - Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2k and OpenSSL 1.0.2l [25 May 2017] + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017] o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw - Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2j and OpenSSL 1.0.2k [26 Jan 2017] + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017] + + o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017] o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731) + o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730) o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016] + + o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054) + o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053) o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055) - Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2i and OpenSSL 1.0.2j [26 Sep 2016] + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016] - o Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052) + o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309) - Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.0.2i [22 Sep 2016] + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016] o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) - o SWEET32 Mitigation (CVE-2016-2183) - o OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) - o Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) - o OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) - o OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180) - o Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177) - o Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) - o DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) - o DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) - o Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) + o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305) + o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() + (CVE-2016-6307) + o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment() + (CVE-2016-6308) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016] + + o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license + o "shared" builds are now the default when possible + o Added support for "pipelining" + o Added the AFALG engine + o New threading API implemented + o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl + o Support for extended master secret + o CCM ciphersuites + o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More + o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque, + including: + BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD, + DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD, + BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, + EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX, + X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE, + X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD + o libssl internal structures made opaque + o SSLv2 support removed + o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed + o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl + o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl + o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking + o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten + o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD. + o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto + o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl + o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either + relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure + argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option. + o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version + to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed. + o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication + o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation + directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes + the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively. + o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6. + o New "unified" build system + o New security levels + o Support for scrypt algorithm + o Support for X25519 + o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files + o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF. + o Support for Certificate Transparency + o HKDF support. Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016] @@ -317,7 +420,7 @@ o Compression memory leak fixed. o Compression session resumption fixed. o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. - o Many fixes to DTLS handling. + o Many fixes to DTLS handling. Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: @@ -348,9 +451,9 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: o Add gcc 4.2 support. - o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization + o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization for VC++ build. - o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly + o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly selected at compile time. o DTLS improvements. o RFC4507bis support. @@ -431,8 +534,8 @@ o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. - This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing - OpenSSL. + This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within + OpenSSL. o New control functions for the error stack. o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME processing. @@ -443,12 +546,12 @@ affected functions. o Improved platform support for PowerPC. o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). - o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation + o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation of X.509 path validation. o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and AMD64. o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled - by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new + by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new argument form 'enable-xxx'. o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to SHA-1. @@ -530,7 +633,7 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of - Bleichbacher's attack + Bleichbacher's attack o Security: make RSA blinding default. o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. @@ -590,7 +693,7 @@ o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). - Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. + Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). @@ -603,7 +706,7 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of - Bleichbacher's attack + Bleichbacher's attack o Security: make RSA blinding default. o Build: shared library support fixes. @@ -715,7 +818,7 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: - o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 + o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc o Support of Linux/IA64 o Assembler support for Mingw32 @@ -729,7 +832,7 @@ o Automation of 'req' application o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs - o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions + o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources o New public key PEM format and options to handle it o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities @@ -811,8 +914,7 @@ o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality o Extended Big Number (BN) library o Added RIPE MD160 message digest - o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher + o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher o Extended ASN.1 parser routines - o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS + o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS o Support for various new platforms - |