5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0h and OpenSSL 1.1.0i [under development]
12 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [27 Mar 2018]
14 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the
16 o Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC (CVE-2018-0733)
17 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
19 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
21 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
22 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
24 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
26 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
28 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
30 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
32 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
34 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
35 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
36 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
38 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
40 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
41 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
42 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
44 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
46 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
48 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
50 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
51 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
52 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
54 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
57 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
59 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
60 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
61 o Added support for "pipelining"
62 o Added the AFALG engine
63 o New threading API implemented
64 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
65 o Support for extended master secret
67 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
68 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
70 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
71 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
72 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
73 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
74 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
75 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
76 o libssl internal structures made opaque
77 o SSLv2 support removed
78 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
79 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
80 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
81 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
82 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
83 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
84 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
85 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
86 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
87 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
88 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
89 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
90 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
91 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
92 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
93 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
94 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
95 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
96 o New "unified" build system
98 o Support for scrypt algorithm
100 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
101 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
102 o Support for Certificate Transparency
105 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
107 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
108 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
109 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
110 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
111 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
112 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
113 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
114 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
116 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
118 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
120 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
121 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
123 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
124 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
126 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
128 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
129 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
131 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
133 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
134 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
136 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
138 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
139 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
140 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
141 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
142 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
145 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
147 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
148 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
150 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
152 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
154 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
156 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
157 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
158 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
159 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
160 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
162 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
164 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
165 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
166 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
167 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
168 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
169 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
170 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
171 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
172 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
173 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
174 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
175 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
176 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
178 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
180 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
181 o Support for DTLS 1.2
182 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
183 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
184 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
185 o TLS Brainpool support.
187 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
189 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
191 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
193 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
195 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
196 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
198 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
199 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
200 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
201 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
202 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
204 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
206 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
207 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
208 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
209 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
211 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
213 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
214 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
216 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
217 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
218 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
219 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
221 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
223 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
225 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
226 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
227 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
228 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
229 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
230 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
232 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
234 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
235 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
236 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
238 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
240 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
241 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
242 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
243 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
245 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
247 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
249 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
251 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
252 o Include the fips configuration module.
253 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
254 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
255 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
257 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
259 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
260 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
262 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
264 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
265 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
266 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
268 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
270 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
271 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
272 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
274 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
276 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
278 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
279 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
280 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
281 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
282 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
283 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
284 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
287 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
289 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
290 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
291 o Various DTLS fixes.
293 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
295 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
297 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
299 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
300 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
301 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
302 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
303 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
305 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
307 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
308 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
309 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
310 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
311 o Various DTLS fixes.
313 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
315 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
317 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
319 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
320 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
321 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
322 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
323 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
325 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
327 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
328 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
329 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
331 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
333 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
334 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
336 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
338 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
339 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
340 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
341 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
342 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
343 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
344 o ASN1 printing support.
345 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
346 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
347 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
348 o New generalised public key API utilities.
349 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
350 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
351 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
352 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
353 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
354 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
355 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
356 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
357 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
359 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
361 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
362 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
364 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
366 o Cipher definition fixes.
367 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
368 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
369 o SPKAC handling fixes.
370 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
371 o Compression memory leak fixed.
372 o Compression session resumption fixed.
373 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
374 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
376 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
378 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
380 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
382 o Fix various build issues.
383 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
385 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
387 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
388 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
390 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
392 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
393 o Various precautionary measures.
394 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
395 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
397 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
399 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
400 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
402 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
404 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
405 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
407 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
408 selected at compile time.
410 o RFC4507bis support.
411 o TLS Extensions support.
413 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
415 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
418 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
420 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
421 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
422 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
424 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
426 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
427 o New cipher Camellia
429 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
431 o Cipher string fixes.
432 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
433 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
434 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
435 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
436 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
437 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
439 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
441 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
442 o Extended Windows CE support
444 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
446 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
447 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
448 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
449 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
450 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
451 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
452 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
453 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
455 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
456 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
457 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
458 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
460 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
461 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
462 automatically from specifically given directories.
463 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
464 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
465 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
466 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
467 function and an argument.
468 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
469 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
471 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
472 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
473 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
474 constraints and name constraints.
475 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
477 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
478 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
479 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
480 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
481 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
482 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
483 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
485 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
486 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
487 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
488 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
490 o New control functions for the error stack.
491 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
493 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
494 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
495 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
496 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
498 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
499 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
500 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
501 of X.509 path validation.
502 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
504 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
505 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
506 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
507 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
509 o Added support for DTLS.
510 o New BIGNUM blinding.
511 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
512 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
513 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
514 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
515 o Added initial support for Win64.
516 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
518 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
520 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
521 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
523 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
525 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
526 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
528 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
530 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
532 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
534 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
535 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
537 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
539 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
541 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
543 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
544 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
545 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
547 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
549 o More compilation issues fixed.
550 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
551 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
552 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
553 o More constification.
554 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
556 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
558 o Several compilation issues fixed.
559 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
560 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
561 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
562 o Performance improvements.
564 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
566 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
567 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
569 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
571 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
572 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
573 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
574 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
575 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
577 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
579 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
580 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
581 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
582 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
584 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
586 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
587 Bleichbacher's attack
588 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
589 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
590 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
591 o Build: shared library support fixes.
592 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
593 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
595 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
597 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
598 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
599 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
600 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
601 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
602 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
603 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
604 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
606 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
608 o New library section OCSP.
609 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
610 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
611 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
612 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
613 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
614 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
615 a separate distribution.
616 o New elliptic curve library section.
617 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
618 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
619 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
620 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
621 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
622 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
623 o Support for pkg-config.
624 o Lots of new manuals.
625 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
627 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
628 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
629 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
631 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
632 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
633 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
634 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
636 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
637 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
638 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
639 Processing, IBM 4758.
640 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
641 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
642 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
643 EGD style random sources at several locations.
644 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
645 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
646 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
647 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
648 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
649 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
650 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
652 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
654 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
655 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
657 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
659 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
660 Bleichbacher's attack
661 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
662 o Build: shared library support fixes.
664 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
666 o Important security related bugfixes.
668 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
670 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
671 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
672 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
673 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
674 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
675 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
676 o Fixes for length problems.
677 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
678 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
679 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
680 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
682 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
684 o Important building fixes on Unix.
686 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
688 o Various important bugfixes.
690 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
692 o Important security related bugfixes.
693 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
695 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
697 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
698 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
700 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
702 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
703 o BIGNUM library fixes.
704 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
705 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
706 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
707 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
708 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
709 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
710 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
711 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
713 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
715 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
716 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
717 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
719 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
720 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
721 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
722 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
723 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
724 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
725 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
726 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
727 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
728 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
730 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
732 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
733 environment variables when running as root.
734 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
735 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
736 calculated signature.
737 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
738 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
739 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
740 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
741 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
742 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
743 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
744 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
745 memory checking routines.
746 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
747 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
748 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
749 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
750 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
751 o More documentation.
752 o New function BN_rand_range().
753 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
755 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
757 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
758 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
759 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
760 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
761 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
763 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
764 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
765 o Enhanced EVP interface.
767 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
768 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
770 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
772 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
773 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
774 o Support of Linux/IA64
775 o Assembler support for Mingw32
776 o New 'rand' application
777 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
779 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
781 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
782 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
783 o Automation of 'req' application
784 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
785 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
786 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
787 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
788 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
789 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
790 o Usable certificate chain verification
791 o Certificate purpose checking
792 o Certificate trust settings
793 o Support of authority information access extension
794 o Extensions in certificate requests
795 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
796 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
797 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
798 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
799 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
800 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
802 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
803 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
804 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
806 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
807 via a per-thread stack
808 o PRNG robustness improved
810 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
811 o Faster DSA parameter generation
812 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
813 o Experimental MacOS support
815 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
817 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
818 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
820 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
821 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
822 o Avoid various memory leaks
823 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
824 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
826 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
827 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
828 o RSA OEAP related fixes
829 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
830 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
831 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
832 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
834 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
835 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
836 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
837 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
838 o Option to disable selected ciphers
840 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
841 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
842 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
843 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
844 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
845 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
846 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
847 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
848 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
849 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
850 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
851 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
852 o Overhauled Win32 builds
853 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
854 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
855 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
856 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
857 o Overhauled Perl interface
858 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
859 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
862 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
863 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
864 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
865 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
866 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
867 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
868 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
869 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
870 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
871 o Support for various new platforms