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authorMark J. Cox <mark@openssl.org>2006-09-28 11:29:03 +0000
committerMark J. Cox <mark@openssl.org>2006-09-28 11:29:03 +0000
commit951dfbb13a79bff82cef8096d2c93bc2d65a7525 (patch)
treeabc7f989e18378c7c06a5eecf6f23257fb42f53a /NEWS
parent81780a3b6290836f3ef64eafe7143e892e7fa5cc (diff)
Introduce limits to prevent malicious keys being able to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2940) [Steve Henson, Bodo Moeller] Fix ASN.1 parsing of certain invalid structures that can result in a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2937) [Steve Henson] Fix buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function. (CVE-2006-3738) [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team] Fix SSL client code which could crash if connecting to a malicious SSLv2 server. (CVE-2006-4343) [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
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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 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d:
+
+ o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
+ o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
+ o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
+
Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c:
o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339