1 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.5
5 - Support GSS name extensions/attributes
7 - No Kerberos 4 support
8 - Basic support for MIT Admin protocol (SECGSS flavor)
9 in kadmind (extract keytab)
10 - Replace editline with libedit
12 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.4
16 - Support for reading MIT database file directly
17 - KCM is polished up and now used in production
18 - NTLM first class citizen, credentials stored in KCM
19 - Table driven ASN.1 compiler, smaller!, not enabled by default
20 - Native Windows client support
24 - Disabled write support NDBM hdb backend (read still in there) since
25 it can't handle large records, please migrate to a diffrent backend
28 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.3
31 - Check the GSS-API checksum exists before trying to use it [CVE-2010-1321]
32 - Check NULL pointers before dereference them [kdc]
34 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.2
38 - Don't mix length when clearing hmac (could memset too much)
39 - More paranoid underrun checking when decrypting packets
40 - Check the password change requests and refuse to answer empty packets
41 - Build on OpenSolaris
42 - Renumber AD-SIGNED-TICKET since it was stolen from US
43 - Don't cache /dev/*random file descriptor, it doesn't get unloaded
47 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.1
51 - Store KDC offset in credentials
52 - Many many more bug fixes
54 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.1
58 - Make work with OpenLDAPs krb5 overlay
60 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3
64 - Partial support for MIT kadmind rpc protocol in kadmind
65 - Better support for finding keytab entries when using SPN aliases in the KDC
66 - Support BER in ASN.1 library (needed for CMS)
67 - Support decryption in Keychain private keys
68 - Support for new sqlite based credential cache
69 - Try both KDC referals and the common DNS reverse lookup in GSS-API
70 - Fix the KCM to not leak resources on failure
71 - Add IPv6 support to iprop
72 - Support localization of error strings in
73 kinit/klist/kdestroy and Kerberos library
74 - Remove Kerberos 4 support in application (still in KDC)
76 - Support i18n password in windows domains (using UTF-8)
77 - More complete API emulation of OpenSSL in hcrypto
78 - Support for ECDSA and ECDH when linking with OpenSSL
82 - Support for settin friendly name on credential caches
83 - Move to using doxygen to generate documentation.
84 - Sprinkling __attribute__((depricated)) for old function to be removed
85 - Support to export LAST-REQUST information in AS-REQ
86 - Support for client deferrals in in AS-REQ
87 - Add seek support for krb5_storage.
88 - Support for split AS-REQ, first step for IA-KERB
89 - Fix many memory leaks and bugs
90 - Improved regression test
92 - Switch to krb5_set_error_message
93 - Support krb5_crypto_*_iov
94 - Switch to use EVP for most function
95 - Use SOCK_CLOEXEC and O_CLOEXEC (close on exec)
96 - Add support for GSS_C_DELEG_POLICY_FLAG
97 - Add krb5_cc_[gs]et_config to store data in the credential caches
98 - PTY testing application
101 - Make building on AIX6 possible.
102 - Bugfixes in LDAP KDC code to make it more stable
103 - Make ipropd-slave reconnect when master down gown
106 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.2.1
110 [HEIMDAL-147] - Heimdal 1.2 not compiling on Solaris
111 [HEIMDAL-151] - Make canned tests work again after cert expired
112 [HEIMDAL-152] - iprop test: use full hostname to avoid realm
114 [HEIMDAL-153] - ftp: Use the correct length for unmap, msync
116 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.2
120 [HEIMDAL-10] - Follow-up on bug report for SEGFAULT in
121 gss_display_name/gss_export_name when using SPNEGO
122 [HEIMDAL-15] - Re: [Heimdal-bugs] potential bug in Heimdal 1.1
123 [HEIMDAL-17] - Remove support for depricated [libdefaults]capath
124 [HEIMDAL-52] - hdb overwrite aliases for db databases
125 [HEIMDAL-54] - Two issues which affect credentials delegation
126 [HEIMDAL-58] - sockbuf.c calls setsockopt with bad args
127 [HEIMDAL-62] - Fix printing of sig_atomic_t
128 [HEIMDAL-87] - heimdal 1.1 not building under cygwin in hcrypto
129 [HEIMDAL-105] - rcp: sync rcp with upstream bsd rcp codebase
130 [HEIMDAL-117] - Use libtool to detect symbol versioning (Debian Bug#453241)
133 [HEIMDAL-67] - Fix locking and store credential in atomic writes
134 in the FILE credential cache
135 [HEIMDAL-106] - make compile on cygwin again
136 [HEIMDAL-107] - Replace old random key generation in des module
137 and use it with RAND_ function instead
138 [HEIMDAL-115] - Better documentation and compatibility in hcrypto
139 in regards to OpenSSL
142 [HEIMDAL-3] - pkinit alg agility PRF test vectors
143 [HEIMDAL-14] - Add libwind to Heimdal
144 [HEIMDAL-16] - Use libwind in hx509
145 [HEIMDAL-55] - Add flag to krb5 to not add GSS-API INT|CONF to
147 [HEIMDAL-74] - Add support to report extended error message back
148 in AS-REQ to support windows clients
149 [HEIMDAL-116] - test pty based application (using rkpty)
150 [HEIMDAL-120] - Use new OpenLDAP API (older deprecated)
153 [HEIMDAL-63] - Dont try key usage KRB5_KU_AP_REQ_AUTH for TGS-REQ.
154 This drop compatibility with pre 0.3d KDCs.
155 [HEIMDAL-64] - kcm: first implementation of kcm-move-cache
156 [HEIMDAL-65] - Failed to compile with --disable-pk-init
157 [HEIMDAL-80] - verify that [VU#162289]: gcc silently discards some
158 wraparound checks doesn't apply to Heimdal
160 Changes in release 1.1
162 * Read-only PKCS11 provider built-in to hx509.
164 * Documentation for hx509, hcrypto and ntlm libraries improved.
166 * Better compatibilty with Windows 2008 Server pre-releases and Vista.
168 * Mac OS X 10.5 support for native credential cache.
170 * Provide pkg-config file for Heimdal (heimdal-gssapi.pc).
174 Changes in release 1.0.2
180 Changes in release 1.0.1
182 * Serveral bug fixes to iprop.
184 * Make work on platforms without dlopen.
186 * Add RFC3526 modp group14 as default.
188 * Handle [kdc] database = { } entries without realm = stanzas.
190 * Make krb5_get_renewed_creds work.
192 * Make kaserver preauth work again.
196 Changes in release 1.0
198 * Add gss_pseudo_random() for mechglue and krb5.
200 * Make session key for the krbtgt be selected by the best encryption
203 * Better interoperability with other PK-INIT implementations.
205 * Inital support for Mac OS X Keychain for hx509.
207 * Alias support for inital ticket requests.
209 * Add symbol versioning to selected libraries on platforms that uses
210 GNU link editor: gssapi, hcrypto, heimntlm, hx509, krb5, and libkdc.
212 * New version of imath included in hcrypto.
218 Changes in release 0.8.1
220 * Make ASN.1 library less paranoid to with regard to NUL in string to
221 make it inter-operate with MIT Kerberos again.
223 * Make GSS-API library work again when using gss_acquire_cred
225 * Add symbol versioning to libgssapi when using GNU ld.
231 Changes in release 0.8
235 * HDB extensions support, used by PK-INIT.
237 * New ASN.1 compiler.
239 * GSS-API mechglue from FreeBSD.
241 * Updated SPNEGO to support RFC4178.
243 * Support for Cryptosystem Negotiation Extension (RFC 4537).
245 * A new X.509 library (hx509) and related crypto functions.
247 * A new ntlm library (heimntlm) and related crypto functions.
249 * Updated the built-in crypto library with bignum support using
250 imath, support for RSA and DH and renamed it to libhcrypto.
252 * Subsystem in the KDC, digest, that will perform the digest
253 operation in the KDC, currently supports: CHAP, MS-CHAP-V2, SASL
254 DIGEST-MD5 NTLMv1 and NTLMv2.
256 * KDC will return the "response too big" error to force TCP retries
257 for large (default 1400 bytes) UDP replies. This is common for
260 * Libkafs defaults to use 2b tokens.
262 * Default to use the API cache on Mac OS X.
264 * krb5_kuserok() also checks ~/.k5login.d directory for acl files,
265 see manpage for krb5_kuserok for description.
267 * Many, many, other updates to code and info manual and manual pages.
271 Changes in release 0.7.2
273 * Fix security problem in rshd that enable an attacker to overwrite
274 and change ownership of any file that root could write.
276 * Fix a DOS in telnetd. The attacker could force the server to crash
277 in a NULL de-reference before the user logged in, resulting in inetd
278 turning telnetd off because it forked too fast.
280 * Make gss_acquire_cred(GSS_C_ACCEPT) check that the requested name
281 exists in the keytab before returning success. This allows servers
282 to check if its even possible to use GSSAPI.
284 * Fix receiving end of token delegation for GSS-API. It still wrongly
285 uses subkey for sending for compatibility reasons, this will change
288 * telnetd, login and rshd are now more verbose in logging failed and
293 Changes in release 0.7.1
297 Changes in release 0.7
299 * Support for KCM, a process based credential cache
301 * Support CCAPI credential cache
305 * AES (and the gssapi conterpart, CFX) support
307 * Adding new and improve old documentation
311 Changes in release 0.6.6
313 * Fix security problem in rshd that enable an attacker to overwrite
314 and change ownership of any file that root could write.
316 * Fix a DOS in telnetd. The attacker could force the server to crash
317 in a NULL de-reference before the user logged in, resulting in inetd
318 turning telnetd off because it forked too fast.
320 Changes in release 0.6.5
322 * fix vulnerabilities in telnetd
324 * unbreak Kerberos 4 and kaserver
326 Changes in release 0.6.4
328 * fix vulnerabilities in telnet
330 * rshd: encryption without a separate error socket should now work
332 * telnet now uses appdefaults for the encrypt and forward/forwardable
337 Changes in release 0.6.3
339 * fix vulnerabilities in ftpd
341 * support for linux AFS /proc "syscalls"
343 * support for RFC3244 (Windows 2000 Kerberos Change/Set Password) in
346 * fix possible KDC denial of service
350 Changes in release 0.6.2
352 * Fix possible buffer overrun in v4 kadmin (which now defaults to off)
354 Changes in release 0.6.1
356 * Fixed ARCFOUR suppport
358 * Cross realm vulnerability
360 * kdc: fix denial of service attack
362 * kdc: stop clients from renewing tickets into the future
366 Changes in release 0.6
368 * The DES3 GSS-API mechanism has been changed to inter-operate with
369 other GSSAPI implementations. See man page for gssapi(3) how to turn
370 on generation of correct MIC messages. Next major release of heimdal
371 will generate correct MIC by default.
373 * More complete GSS-API support
375 * Better AFS support: kdc (524) supports 2b; 524 in kdc and AFS
376 support in applications no longer requires Kerberos 4 libs
378 * Kerberos 4 support in kdc defaults to turned off (includes ka and 524)
382 Changes in release 0.5.2
384 * kdc: add option for disabling v4 cross-realm (defaults to off)
388 Changes in release 0.5.1
390 * kadmind: fix remote exploit
392 * kadmind: add option to disable kerberos 4
394 * kdc: make sure kaserver token life is positive
396 * telnet: use the session key if there is no subkey
398 * fix EPSV parsing in ftp
402 Changes in release 0.5
404 * add --detach option to kdc
406 * allow setting forward and forwardable option in telnet from
407 .telnetrc, with override from command line
409 * accept addresses with or without ports in krb5_rd_cred
411 * make it work with modern openssl
413 * use our own string2key function even with openssl (that handles weak
416 * more system-specific requirements in login
418 * do not use getlogin() to determine root in su
420 * telnet: abort if telnetd does not support encryption
422 * update autoconf to 2.53
424 * update config.guess, config.sub
428 Changes in release 0.4e
430 * improve libcrypto and database autoconf tests
432 * do not care about salting of server principals when serving v4 requests
434 * some improvements to gssapi library
436 * test for existing compile_et/libcom_err
442 Changes in release 0.4d
444 * fix some problems when using libcrypto from openssl
446 * handle /dev/ptmx `unix98' ptys on Linux
448 * add some forgotten man pages
450 * rsh: clean-up and add man page
452 * fix -A and -a in builtin-ls in tpd
454 * fix building problem on Irix
456 * make `ktutil get' more efficient
460 Changes in release 0.4c
462 * fix buffer overrun in telnetd
464 * repair some of the v4 fallback code in kinit
466 * add more shared library dependencies
468 * simplify and fix hprop handling of v4 databases
470 * fix some building problems (osf's sia and osfc2 login)
474 Changes in release 0.4b
476 * update the shared library version numbers correctly
478 Changes in release 0.4a
480 * corrected key used for checksum in mk_safe, unfortunately this
481 makes it backwards incompatible
483 * update to autoconf 2.50, libtool 1.4
485 * re-write dns/config lookups (krb5_krbhst API)
487 * make order of using subkeys consistent
493 * remove rfc2052 support, now only rfc2782 is supported
495 * always build with kaserver protocol support in the KDC (assuming
496 KRB4 is enabled) and support for reading kaserver databases in
499 Changes in release 0.3f
501 * change default keytab to ANY:FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab,krb4:/etc/srvtab,
502 the new keytab type that tries both of these in order (SRVTAB is
503 also an alias for krb4:)
505 * improve error reporting and error handling (error messages should
506 be more detailed and more useful)
508 * improve building with openssl
510 * add kadmin -K, rcp -F
512 * fix two incorrect weak DES keys
514 * fix building of kaserver compat in KDC
516 * the API is closer to what MIT krb5 is using
518 * more compatible with windows 2000
520 * removed some memory leaks
524 Changes in release 0.3e
526 * rcp program included
528 * fix buffer overrun in ftpd
530 * handle omitted sequence numbers as zeroes to handle MIT krb5 that
531 cannot generate zero sequence numbers
533 * handle v4 /.k files better
535 * configure/portability fixes
537 * fixes in parsing of options to kadmin (sub-)commands
539 * handle errors in kadmin load better
543 Changes in release 0.3d
547 * fix a bug in 3des gss-api mechanism, making it compatible with the
548 specification and the MIT implementation
550 * make telnetd only allow a specific list of environment variables to
551 stop it from setting `sensitive' variables
553 * try to use an existing libdes
555 * lib/krb5, kdc: use correct usage type for ap-req messages. This
556 should improve compatability with MIT krb5 when using 3DES
559 * kdc: fix memory allocation problem
561 * update config.guess and config.sub
563 * lib/roken: more stuff implemented
565 * bug fixes and portability enhancements
567 Changes in release 0.3c
569 * lib/krb5: memory caches now support the resolve operation
571 * appl/login: set PATH to some sane default
573 * kadmind: handle several realms
575 * bug fixes (including memory leaks)
577 Changes in release 0.3b
579 * kdc: prefer default-salted keys on v5 requests
581 * kdc: lowercase hostnames in v4 mode
583 * hprop: handle more types of MIT salts
585 * lib/krb5: fix memory leak
589 Changes in release 0.3a:
591 * implement arcfour-hmac-md5 to interoperate with W2K
593 * modularise the handling of the master key, and allow for other
594 encryption types. This makes it easier to import a database from
595 some other source without having to re-encrypt all keys.
597 * allow for better control over which encryption types are created
599 * make kinit fallback to v4 if given a v4 KDC
601 * make klist work better with v4 and v5, and add some more MIT
602 compatibility options
604 * make the kdc listen on the krb524 (4444) port for compatibility
605 with MIT krb5 clients
607 * implement more DCE/DFS support, enabled with --enable-dce, see
608 lib/kdfs and appl/dceutils
610 * make the sequence numbers work correctly
614 Changes in release 0.2t:
618 Changes in release 0.2s:
620 * add OpenLDAP support in hdb
622 * login will get v4 tickets when it receives forwarded tickets
624 * xnlock supports both v5 and v4
626 * repair source routing for telnet
628 * fix building problems with krb4 (krb_mk_req)
632 Changes in release 0.2r:
634 * fix realloc memory corruption bug in kdc
636 * `add --key' and `cpw --key' in kadmin
638 * klist supports listing v4 tickets
640 * update config.guess and config.sub
642 * make v4 -> v5 principal name conversion more robust
644 * support for anonymous tickets
648 * telnetd: do not negotiate KERBEROS5 authentication if there's no keytab.
650 * use and set expiration and not password expiration when dumping
651 to/from ka server databases / krb4 databases
653 * make the code happier with 64-bit time_t
655 * follow RFC2782 and by default do not look for non-underscore SRV names
657 Changes in release 0.2q:
659 * bug fix in tcp-handling in kdc
661 * bug fix in expand_hostname
663 Changes in release 0.2p:
665 * bug fix in `kadmin load/merge'
667 * bug fix in krb5_parse_address
669 Changes in release 0.2o:
671 * gss_{import,export}_sec_context added to libgssapi
673 * new option --addresses to kdc (for listening on an explicit set of
676 * bug fixes in the krb4 and kaserver emulation part of the kdc
680 Changes in release 0.2n:
682 * more robust parsing of dump files in kadmin
683 * changed default timestamp format for log messages to extended ISO
684 8601 format (Y-M-DTH:M:S)
685 * changed md4/md5/sha1 APIes to be de-facto `standard'
686 * always make hostname into lower-case before creating principal
687 * small bits of more MIT-compatability
690 Changes in release 0.2m:
692 * handle glibc's getaddrinfo() that returns several ai_canonname
698 Changes in release 0.2l:
702 Changes in release 0.2k:
706 * make struct sockaddr_storage in roken work better on alphas
708 * some missing [hn]to[hn]s fixed.
710 * allow users to change their own passwords with kadmin (with initial
713 * fix stupid bug in parsing KDC specification
715 * add `ktutil change' and `ktutil purge'
717 Changes in release 0.2j:
721 * ftpd works in passive mode
723 * should build on cygwin
725 * work around broken IPv6-code on OpenBSD 2.6, also add configure
726 option --disable-ipv6
728 Changes in release 0.2i:
730 * use getaddrinfo in the missing places.
732 * fix SRV lookup for admin server
734 * use get{addr,name}info everywhere. and implement it in terms of
735 getipnodeby{name,addr} (which uses gethostbyname{,2} and
738 Changes in release 0.2h:
740 * fix typo in kx (now compiles)
742 Changes in release 0.2g:
746 * repair appl/test programs
747 * sockaddr_storage works on solaris (alignment issues)
748 * works better with non-roken getaddrinfo
750 * some non standard C constructs removed
752 Changes in release 0.2f:
754 * support SRV records for kpasswd
755 * look for both _kerberos and krb5-realm when doing host -> realm mapping
757 Changes in release 0.2e:
759 * changed copyright notices to remove `advertising'-clause.
760 * get{addr,name}info added to roken and used in the other code
761 (this makes things work much better with hosts with both v4 and v6
762 addresses, among other things)
763 * do pre-auth for both password and key-based get_in_tkt
764 * support for having several databases
765 * new command `del_enctype' in kadmin
766 * strptime (and new strftime) add to roken
767 * more paranoia about finding libdb
770 Changes in release 0.2d:
772 * new configuration option [libdefaults]default_etypes_des
773 * internal ls in ftpd builds without KRB4
774 * kx/rsh/push/pop_debug tries v5 and v4 consistenly
778 Changes in release 0.2c:
780 * bug fixes (see ChangeLog's for details)
782 Changes in release 0.2b:
785 * actually bump shared library versions
787 Changes in release 0.2a:
789 * a new program verify_krb5_conf for checking your /etc/krb5.conf
790 * add 3DES keys when changing password
791 * support null keys in database
792 * support multiple local realms
793 * implement a keytab backend for AFS KeyFile's
794 * implement a keytab backend for v4 srvtabs
795 * implement `ktutil copy'
796 * support password quality control in v4 kadmind
797 * improvements in v4 compat kadmind
798 * handle the case of having the correct cred in the ccache but with
799 the wrong encryption type better
800 * v6-ify the remaining programs.
801 * internal ls in ftpd
802 * rename strcpy_truncate/strcat_truncate to strlcpy/strlcat
803 * add `ank --random-password' and `cpw --random-password' in kadmin
804 * some programs and documentation for trying to talk to a W2K KDC
807 Changes in release 0.1m:
809 * support for getting default from krb5.conf for kinit/kf/rsh/telnet.
810 From Miroslav Ruda <ruda@ics.muni.cz>
811 * v6-ify hprop and hpropd
812 * support numeric addresses in krb5_mk_req
813 * shadow support in login and su. From Miroslav Ruda <ruda@ics.muni.cz>
814 * make rsh/rshd IPv6-aware
815 * make the gssapi sample applications better at reporting errors
817 * handle systems with v6-aware libc and non-v6 kernels (like Linux
818 with glibc 2.1) better
819 * hide failure of ERPT in ftp
822 Changes in release 0.1l:
824 * make ftp and ftpd IPv6-aware
825 * add inet_pton to roken
826 * more IPv6-awareness
827 * make mini_inetd v6 aware
829 Changes in release 0.1k:
831 * bump shared libraries versions
832 * add roken version of inet_ntop
833 * merge more changes to rshd
835 Changes in release 0.1j:
837 * restore back to the `old' 3DES code. This was supposed to be done
838 in 0.1h and 0.1i but I did a CVS screw-up.
839 * make telnetd handle v6 connections
841 Changes in release 0.1i:
843 * start using `struct sockaddr_storage' which simplifies the code
844 (with a fallback definition if it's not defined)
845 * bug fixes (including in hprop and kf)
846 * don't use mawk which seems to mishandle roken.awk
847 * get_addrs should be able to handle v6 addresses on Linux (with the
848 required patch to the Linux kernel -- ask within)
849 * rshd builds with shadow passwords
851 Changes in release 0.1h:
853 * kf: new program for forwarding credentials
855 * make forwarding credentials work with MIT code
856 * better conversion of ka database
857 * add etc/services.append
858 * correct `modified by' from kpasswdd
861 Changes in release 0.1g:
863 * kgetcred: new program for explicitly obtaining tickets
868 Changes in release 0.1f;
870 * experimental support for v4 kadmin protokoll in kadmind
873 Changes in release 0.1e:
875 * try to handle old DCE and MIT kdcs
876 * support for older versions of credential cache files and keytabs
877 * postdated tickets work
878 * support for password quality checks in kpasswdd
879 * new flag --enable-kaserver for kdc
881 * prototype su program
882 * updated (some) manpages
883 * support for KDC resource records
884 * should build with --without-krb4
887 Changes in release 0.1d:
889 * Support building with DB2 (uses 1.85-compat API)
890 * Support krb5-realm.DOMAIN in DNS
891 * new `ktutil srvcreate'
892 * v4/kafs support in klist/kdestroy
895 Changes in release 0.1c:
897 * fix ASN.1 encoding of signed integers
898 * somewhat working `ktutil get'
899 * some documentation updates
900 * update to Autoconf 2.13 and Automake 1.4
901 * the usual bug fixes
903 Changes in release 0.1b:
905 * some old -> new crypto conversion utils
908 Changes in release 0.1a:
912 * make sure we ask for DES keys in gssapi
913 * support signed ints in ASN1
916 Changes in release 0.0u:
920 Changes in release 0.0t:
922 * more robust parsing of krb5.conf
923 * include net{read,write} in lib/roken
926 Changes in release 0.0s:
928 * kludges for parsing options to rsh
929 * more robust parsing of krb5.conf
930 * removed some arbitrary limits
933 Changes in release 0.0r:
935 * default options for some programs
938 Changes in release 0.0q:
940 * support for building shared libraries with libtool
943 Changes in release 0.0p:
945 * keytab moved to /etc/krb5.keytab
946 * avoid false detection of IPv6 on Linux
947 * Lots of more functionality in the gssapi-library
948 * hprop can now read ka-server databases
951 Changes in release 0.0o:
953 * FTP with GSSAPI support.
956 Changes in release 0.0n:
958 * Incremental database propagation.
959 * Somewhat improved kadmin ui; the stuff in admin is now removed.
960 * Some support for using enctypes instead of keytypes.
961 * Lots of other improvement and bug fixes, see ChangeLog for details.