OpenSSL v1.0.0.j Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-02-05 // about 11 years ago
    • Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records constant time.

    This addresses the flaw in CBC record processing discovered by Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson. Details of this attack can be found at: http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/

    Thanks go to Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) for discovering this flaw and Adam Langley and Emilia Käsper for the initial patch. [CVE-2013-0169][]

    Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Andy Polyakov, Steve Henson

    • Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL. This fixes a DoS attack. [CVE-2013-0166][]

    Steve Henson

    • Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate() so it returns the certificate actually sent. See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2836. (This is a backport)

    Rob Stradling [email protected]

    • Fix possible deadlock when decoding public keys.

    Steve Henson