MatrixSSL 4.x changelog

Changes between 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 [June 2019]

This version fixes an out of bounds read in ASN.1 handling found by Tyler Nighswander (ForAllSecure).

Changes between 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 [May 2019]

This version adds a compile-time option that allows TLS 1.3 only builds, adds new getter APIs and fixes several bugs.

• TLS:

  • Allow TLS 1.3 only builds by introducing the USE_TLS_1_3_ONLY compile-time option. This significantly reduces the minimum code footprint of TLS 1.3 builds. The example configuration tls13-minimal makes use of the new compile-time option.

  • Add the matrixSslGetUserPtr API. This getter API should be used instead of raw access to ssl->userPtr.

  • Added the matrixSslGetNegotiatedCiphersuite and matrixSslGetActiveCiphersuite APIs.

  • Added the matrixSslGetMasterSecret API. This API requires the ENABLE_MASTER_SECRET_EXPORT compile-time option, which is disabled by default.

  • Completely remove support for TLS record compression (unifdef USE_ZLIB_COMPRESSION). TLS record compression is almost never used in practice due to serious vulnerabilities associated with the feature (see e.g. the CRIME attack).

  • Fixed a bug where decrypting an alert in TLS 1.3 could cause matrixSslProcessed data to erroneously indicate that there is more application data to process.

  • Allow storing the unparsed certificate DER octets (in the unparsedBin member of psX509Cert_t) even in TLS 1.3.

  • Fix segfault when receiving a server certificate without the commonName component.

  • Fixed handshake failure with some clients that attempted to use a TLS 1.2 session ticket in a TLS 1.3 connection.

  • Fix build error with the USE_EXT_CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_SIGNING compile-time option.

  • Fix sslTest failure when using the USE_EXT_CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_SIGNING compile-time option.

  • Fix a bug that caused the server to sometimes select a TLS 1.3 ciphersuite even when TLS 1.2 or below had been negotiated.

  • Add Ed25519 test keys and certificates.

  • Add Ed25519 testing to sslTest. (Note that Ed25519 is only supported in TLS 1.3.)

• Crypto:

  • (FIPS Edition only): Fix a bug that prevented verification of RSA-SHA-1 signatures in FIPS mode. FIPS 140-2 allows verification of SHA-1 based signatures, but forbids generating such signatures.

  • Store the order of DN attributes in certificate subject and issuer fields.

  • Add an option to the psX509GetOnelineDN API that allows printing the DN attributes in the original order they were encoded in the parsed certificate.

  • Fix parsing of Ed25519 certificates.

  • Fix parsing of ECDSA-SHA224 certificates.

Changes between 4.0.2 and 4.1.0 [April 2019]

• TLS:

  • (RoT Edition only): Added support for Inside Secure VaultIP (Root-of-Trust) crypto provider.

  • Improved the separation of private and public TLS header files for better private-public separation. The public headers now of the form matrixsslApi*.h, while private headers are of the form matrixssllib_*.h.

  • Added client-side support for X25519 in TLS 1.2.

  • Added client-side support for RSASSA-PSS signatures in TLS 1.2.

  • Added support for RSASSA-PSS key/cert pairs.

  • Fix vulnerabilities reported by Robert Święcki (discovered using Hongfuzzer): a server-side heap buffer read overflow when parsing maliciously crafted ClientHello extensions and a segfault in TLS 1.2 GCM decryption of maliciously crafted records with small ciphertext.

  • Added the simpleClient.c and simpleServer.c example applications. These are intended as minimalistic examples of how to use the top-level TLS API.

  • Fixed bugs in matrixSslSessOptsServerTlsVersionRange and matrixSslSessOptsClientTlsVersionRange.

  • Fixed bug that caused non-insitu app data encryption to fail in tls13EncodeAppData when using the matrixSslEncodeToOutdata API instead of the more standard matrixSslGetWriteBuf + matrixSslEncodeWritebuf pattern.

  • Added new minimal example configurations: tls12-minimal, tls12-minimal-client-ecc, tls13-minimal, tls13-minimal-client-ecc

  • When performing TLS 1.2 renegotiation, re-send the original ClientHello cipher list.

  • Added the USE_LENIENT_TLS_RECORD_VERSION_MATCHING compatibility option.

Changes between 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 [February 2019]

This version fixes a critical vulnerability in RSA signature verification. A maliciously crafted certificate can be used to trigger a stack buffer overflow, allowing potential remote code execution attacks. The vulnerability only affects version 4.0.1 and the standard Matrix Crypto provider. Other providers, such as the FIPS crypto provider, are not affected by the bug. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy for reporting this.

Changes between 4.0.0 and 4.0.1 [November 2018]

This version improves the security of RSA PKCS #1.5 signature verification and adds better support for run-time security configuration.

• TLS:

  • Added a run-time security callback feature (matrixSslRegisterSecurityCallback). The security callback can allow or deny a cryptographic operation based on the operation type and the key size. Currently only authentication and key exchange operations are supported. The default security callback supports pre-defined security profiles (matrixSslSetSecurityProfile).

  • Added an example security profile: WPA3 1.0 Enterprise 192-bit mode restrictions for EAP-TLS.

  • Added support for the TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 ciphersuite.

  • Changed the way how protocol version IDs are stored internally and rewrote most of the version negotiation code. This is almost entirely an internal code refactoring. To the API user, the only visible change is that version selection APIs now take in an argument of type psProtocolVersion_t instead of int32_t. See the API reference guide for details.

  • Refactored ServerKeyExchange signature generation and verification code.

• Crypto:

  • Changed from a parsing-based to a comparison-based approach in DigestInfo validation when verifying RSA PKCS #1.5 signatures. There are no known practical attacks against the old code, but the comparison-based approach is theoretically more sound. Thanks to Sze Yiu Chau from Purdue University for pointing this out.

  • (MatrixSSL FIPS Edition only:) Fix DH key exchange when using DH parameter files containing optional privateValueLength argument.

  • psX509AuthenticateCert now uses the common psVerifySig API for signature verification. Previously, CRLs and certificates used different code paths for signature verification.

Changes between 3.9.5 and 4.0.0 [August 2018]

This version adds support for RFC 8446 (TLS 1.3), new APIs for configuring session options as well as fixes to security vulnerabilities.

• TLS:

  • Added support for TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446 version) as well as draft versions 23, 24, 26 and 28.
  • Supported TLS 1.3 handshake types:
    • Basic handshake with server authentication
    • Incorrect DHE key share (HelloRetryRequest) handshake
    • PSK handshake
    • Resumed handshake
    • 0RTT data handshake
  • Supported TLS 1.3 ciphersuites:
    • TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
    • TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
    • TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
  • Supported key exchange modes in TLS 1.3:
    • DHE with the ffdhe2048, ffdhe3072 and ffdhe4096 groups
    • ECDHE with the P-256, P-384, P-521 and X25519 groups
    • PSK with (EC)DHE
    • PSK only
  • Supported signature algorithms in TLS 1.3:
    • ECDSA with P-256, P-384 and P-521
    • Ed25519
    • RSASSA-PSS
    • RSA PKCS #1.5 (certificates only)
  • Supported PKI features in TLS 1.3:
    • X.509 certificates
    • CRLs
    • OCSP stapling
  • Supported TLS 1.3 extensions:
    • supported_versions
    • supported_groups
    • key_share
    • signature_algorithms
    • signature_algorithms_cert
    • server_name
    • certificate_authorities
    • cookie
    • status_request
    • max_fragment_length
  • Support for TLS 1.3 record padding
  • Fixed several client-side crashes and undefined behaviours on maliciously crafted server messages. The bugs were found using TLS-Attacker. Thanks to Robert Merget from the Ruhr-University Bochum for reporting these.
  • Added the matrixSslSessOptsSetServerTlsVersions and matrixSslSessOptsSetClientTlsVersions APIs for selecting the supported protocol versions at run-time. Please consult the API reference for details.
  • Added a couple of TLS 1.3 specific APIs:
    • matrixSslSessOptsSetSigAlgsCert
    • matrixSslSessOptsSetKeyExGroups
    • matrixSslGetEarlyDataStatus
    • matrixSslGetMaxEarlyData
    • matrixSslLoadTls13Psks
    • matrixSslSetTls13BlockPadding
  • Added an API for selecting supported signature algorithms: (usable in both TLS 1.3 and TLS 1.2):
    • matrixSslSessOptsSetSigAlgs
  • Added new example configurations. The recommended configuration for using TLS 1.3 and below is tls13 (Commercial Edition) or nonfips-tls13 (FIPS Edition)
  • Updated and improved the Developer Guide and the MatrixSSL APIs reference document.
  • Improved the example client and server programs and fixed bugs.
  • Resend user extensions (e.g. SNI) when responding to HelloRequest
  • sslTest now allows specifying the ciphersuites and protocol versions to test via environment variables.
  • Improvements to identity management, including support for loading multiple identities (key and cert pairs) during initialization and postponed key and cert loading. See the MatrixSSL Developer Guide for details.
  • Refactored key loading and protocol version negotiation.
  • Fixed server-side signature algorithm selection when the server certificate is signed with a different algorithm (RSA or ECDSA) than the public key contain therein.
  • Much improved TLS-level debug prints and logging (tlsTrace.c). USE_SSL_HANDSHAKE_MSG_TRACE now consistently enables messages such as "parsing/creating handshake message X or extension Y". USE_SSL_INFORMATIONAL_TRACE now prints out more details on the contents of handshake messages and extensions.
  • Refactored public header files.

• Crypto:

  • NCC Group'ss Keegan Ryan has found a side-channel attack affecting multiple cryptographic libraries. The "ROHNP" Key Extraction Side Channel (CVE-2018-0495) has been fixed.
  • Added support for Ed25519 signatures in TLS 1.3
  • Added support for ECDHE with X25519 in TLS 1.3
  • Added algorithm-independent signature and verification APIs: psSign and psVerify.
  • Source file reorganization. New new naming scheme aims for better consistency, clarity and makes it easier to ifdef out unneeded features.
  • Added psEccWritePrivKeyMem and psEccWritePrivKeyFile the public crypto API

• X.509 and PKCS standards

  • Fixed processing of indefinite expiration date (31.12.9999).
  • Basic Constraints no longer unconditionally added when generating CSR data
  • Session option for requesting subrange of allowed tls versions.
  • Specify certificate validity dates when generating certificate.
  • Support for reading PKCS #12 and CA certificates from memory (der encoded).
  • Support for key usage encipher only and decipher only bits in generating certificate generation.
  • Option for MD2/MD4/MD5 signatures compatibility on certificates.
  • X.509 certificates allow NIL character at the end of GeneralName field. This is for compatibility with various other products.
  • It is now possible to compile X.509 certificate and CSR generation code only ECC or RSA support for smaller footprint.
  • Added Ed25519 specific functions such as psEd25519ParsePrivKey, psEd25519Sign, etc.

• Other changes

  • Added export.mk, which generates example binary packaging of a previously compiled MatrixSSL package and includes two of the example applications within the package. This package shows how to export MatrixSSL includes and libraries outside the source tree keeping configuration with the includes.

• Known issues

  • The TLS 1.3 code has not yet been fully optimized for footprint.
  • If the client sends a TLS 1.3 ClientHello with X25519 as the key exchange group, the server downgrades to TLS 1.2 but still wishes to use X25519, the handshake will fail, because MatrixSSL does not yet support X25519 in TLS 1.2 and below.