OpenSSL CHANGES
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- Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
+ Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
- *)
+ *) OpenSSL now fails if it receives an unrecognised record type in TLS1.0
+ or TLS1.1. Previously this only happened in SSLv3 and TLS1.2. This is to
+ prevent issues where no progress is being made and the peer continually
+ sends unrecognised record types, using up resources processing them.
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,
+ using the algorithm defined in
+ https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Heartbeat support has been removed; the ABI is changed for now.
+ [Richard Levitte, Rich Salz]
+
+ *) Support for SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC in SSL_CONF_cmd.
+ [Emilia Käsper]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0b and 1.1.0c [xx XXX xxxx]
+
+ *) ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow
+
+ TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to
+ a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL
+ crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki (Google Security Team)
+ (CVE-2016-7054)
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) CMS Null dereference
+
+ Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
+ dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE
+ type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the
+ structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings.
+ Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are
+ affected.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Tyler Nighswander of ForAllSecure.
+ (CVE-2016-7053)
+ [Stephen Henson]
+
+ *) Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results
+
+ There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
+ multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
+ longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
+ and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
+ question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
+ of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
+ transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
+ erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
+ Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
+ presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
+ detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
+ multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
+ share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
+ Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
+
+ This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
+ initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
+ providing reproducible case.
+ (CVE-2016-7055)
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) Removed automatic addition of RPATH in shared libraries and executables,
+ as this was a remainder from OpenSSL 1.0.x and isn't needed any more.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
+
+ *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
+
+ The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
+ message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
+ store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
+ dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
+ write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
+ crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
+
+ This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
+ (CVE-2016-6309)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
+
+ *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth
+
+ A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request
+ extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a
+ large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded
+ memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of
+ Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default
+ configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using
+ the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
+ (CVE-2016-6304)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) SSL_peek() hang on empty record
+
+ OpenSSL 1.1.0 SSL/TLS will hang during a call to SSL_peek() if the peer
+ sends an empty record. This could be exploited by a malicious peer in a
+ Denial Of Service attack.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Alex Gaynor.
+ (CVE-2016-6305)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() and
+ dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
+
+ A (D)TLS message includes 3 bytes for its length in the header for the
+ message. This would allow for messages up to 16Mb in length. Messages of
+ this length are excessive and OpenSSL includes a check to ensure that a
+ peer is sending reasonably sized messages in order to avoid too much memory
+ being consumed to service a connection. A flaw in the logic of version
+ 1.1.0 means that memory for the message is allocated too early, prior to
+ the excessive message length check. Due to way memory is allocated in
+ OpenSSL this could mean an attacker could force up to 21Mb to be allocated
+ to service a connection. This could lead to a Denial of Service through
+ memory exhaustion. However, the excessive message length check still takes
+ place, and this would cause the connection to immediately fail. Assuming
+ that the application calls SSL_free() on the failed conneciton in a timely
+ manner then the 21Mb of allocated memory will then be immediately freed
+ again. Therefore the excessive memory allocation will be transitory in
+ nature. This then means that there is only a security impact if:
+
+ 1) The application does not call SSL_free() in a timely manner in the event
+ that the connection fails
+ or
+ 2) The application is working in a constrained environment where there is
+ very little free memory
+ or
+ 3) The attacker initiates multiple connection attempts such that there are
+ multiple connections in a state where memory has been allocated for the
+ connection; SSL_free() has not yet been called; and there is insufficient
+ memory to service the multiple requests.
+
+ Except in the instance of (1) above any Denial Of Service is likely to be
+ transitory because as soon as the connection fails the memory is
+ subsequently freed again in the SSL_free() call. However there is an
+ increased risk during this period of application crashes due to the lack of
+ memory - which would then mean a more serious Denial of Service.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Shi Lei (Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.)
+ (CVE-2016-6307 and CVE-2016-6308)
+ [Matt Caswell]
+
+ *) solaris-x86-cc, i.e. 32-bit configuration with vendor compiler,
+ had to be removed. Primary reason is that vendor assembler can't
+ assemble our modules with -KPIC flag. As result it, assembly
+ support, was not even available as option. But its lack means
+ lack of side-channel resistant code, which is incompatible with
+ security by todays standards. Fortunately gcc is readily available
+ prepackaged option, which we firmly point at...
+ [Andy Polyakov]
Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
descrip.mms.tmpl.
+ With this change, the library names were also renamed on Windows
+ and on VMS. They now have names that are closer to the standard
+ on Unix, and include the major version number, and in certain
+ cases, the architecture they are built for. See "Notes on shared
+ libraries" in INSTALL.
+
We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
[Richard Levitte]
combination: call this in fips_test_suite.
[Steve Henson]
- *) Add support for Dual EC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test
- and POST to handle Dual EC cases.
- [Steve Henson]
-
*) Add support for canonical generation of DSA parameter 'g'. See
FIPS 186-3 A.2.3.