1 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.4
5 - Support for reading MIT database file directly
6 - KCM is polished up and now used in production
7 - NTLM first class citizen, credentials stored in KCM
8 - Table driven ASN.1 compiler, smaller!, not enabled by default
9 - Native Windows client support
11 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.2
15 - Don't mix length when clearing hmac (could memset too much)
16 - More paranoid underrun checking when decrypting packets
17 - Check the password change requests and refuse to answer empty packets
18 - Build on OpenSolaris
19 - Renumber AD-SIGNED-TICKET since it was stolen from US
20 - Don't cache /dev/*random file descriptor, it doesn't get unloaded
24 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.1
28 - Store KDC offset in credentials
29 - Many many more bug fixes
31 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.1
35 - Make work with OpenLDAPs krb5 overlay
37 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3
41 - Partial support for MIT kadmind rpc protocol in kadmind
42 - Better support for finding keytab entries when using SPN aliases in the KDC
43 - Support BER in ASN.1 library (needed for CMS)
44 - Support decryption in Keychain private keys
45 - Support for new sqlite based credential cache
46 - Try both KDC referals and the common DNS reverse lookup in GSS-API
47 - Fix the KCM to not leak resources on failure
48 - Add IPv6 support to iprop
49 - Support localization of error strings in
50 kinit/klist/kdestroy and Kerberos library
51 - Remove Kerberos 4 support in application (still in KDC)
53 - Support i18n password in windows domains (using UTF-8)
54 - More complete API emulation of OpenSSL in hcrypto
55 - Support for ECDSA and ECDH when linking with OpenSSL
59 - Support for settin friendly name on credential caches
60 - Move to using doxygen to generate documentation.
61 - Sprinkling __attribute__((depricated)) for old function to be removed
62 - Support to export LAST-REQUST information in AS-REQ
63 - Support for client deferrals in in AS-REQ
64 - Add seek support for krb5_storage.
65 - Support for split AS-REQ, first step for IA-KERB
66 - Fix many memory leaks and bugs
67 - Improved regression test
69 - Switch to krb5_set_error_message
70 - Support krb5_crypto_*_iov
71 - Switch to use EVP for most function
72 - Use SOCK_CLOEXEC and O_CLOEXEC (close on exec)
73 - Add support for GSS_C_DELEG_POLICY_FLAG
74 - Add krb5_cc_[gs]et_config to store data in the credential caches
75 - PTY testing application
78 - Make building on AIX6 possible.
79 - Bugfixes in LDAP KDC code to make it more stable
80 - Make ipropd-slave reconnect when master down gown
83 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.2.1
87 [HEIMDAL-147] - Heimdal 1.2 not compiling on Solaris
88 [HEIMDAL-151] - Make canned tests work again after cert expired
89 [HEIMDAL-152] - iprop test: use full hostname to avoid realm
91 [HEIMDAL-153] - ftp: Use the correct length for unmap, msync
93 Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.2
97 [HEIMDAL-10] - Follow-up on bug report for SEGFAULT in
98 gss_display_name/gss_export_name when using SPNEGO
99 [HEIMDAL-15] - Re: [Heimdal-bugs] potential bug in Heimdal 1.1
100 [HEIMDAL-17] - Remove support for depricated [libdefaults]capath
101 [HEIMDAL-52] - hdb overwrite aliases for db databases
102 [HEIMDAL-54] - Two issues which affect credentials delegation
103 [HEIMDAL-58] - sockbuf.c calls setsockopt with bad args
104 [HEIMDAL-62] - Fix printing of sig_atomic_t
105 [HEIMDAL-87] - heimdal 1.1 not building under cygwin in hcrypto
106 [HEIMDAL-105] - rcp: sync rcp with upstream bsd rcp codebase
107 [HEIMDAL-117] - Use libtool to detect symbol versioning (Debian Bug#453241)
110 [HEIMDAL-67] - Fix locking and store credential in atomic writes
111 in the FILE credential cache
112 [HEIMDAL-106] - make compile on cygwin again
113 [HEIMDAL-107] - Replace old random key generation in des module
114 and use it with RAND_ function instead
115 [HEIMDAL-115] - Better documentation and compatibility in hcrypto
116 in regards to OpenSSL
119 [HEIMDAL-3] - pkinit alg agility PRF test vectors
120 [HEIMDAL-14] - Add libwind to Heimdal
121 [HEIMDAL-16] - Use libwind in hx509
122 [HEIMDAL-55] - Add flag to krb5 to not add GSS-API INT|CONF to
124 [HEIMDAL-74] - Add support to report extended error message back
125 in AS-REQ to support windows clients
126 [HEIMDAL-116] - test pty based application (using rkpty)
127 [HEIMDAL-120] - Use new OpenLDAP API (older deprecated)
130 [HEIMDAL-63] - Dont try key usage KRB5_KU_AP_REQ_AUTH for TGS-REQ.
131 This drop compatibility with pre 0.3d KDCs.
132 [HEIMDAL-64] - kcm: first implementation of kcm-move-cache
133 [HEIMDAL-65] - Failed to compile with --disable-pk-init
134 [HEIMDAL-80] - verify that [VU#162289]: gcc silently discards some
135 wraparound checks doesn't apply to Heimdal
137 Changes in release 1.1
139 * Read-only PKCS11 provider built-in to hx509.
141 * Documentation for hx509, hcrypto and ntlm libraries improved.
143 * Better compatibilty with Windows 2008 Server pre-releases and Vista.
145 * Mac OS X 10.5 support for native credential cache.
147 * Provide pkg-config file for Heimdal (heimdal-gssapi.pc).
151 Changes in release 1.0.2
157 Changes in release 1.0.1
159 * Serveral bug fixes to iprop.
161 * Make work on platforms without dlopen.
163 * Add RFC3526 modp group14 as default.
165 * Handle [kdc] database = { } entries without realm = stanzas.
167 * Make krb5_get_renewed_creds work.
169 * Make kaserver preauth work again.
173 Changes in release 1.0
175 * Add gss_pseudo_random() for mechglue and krb5.
177 * Make session key for the krbtgt be selected by the best encryption
180 * Better interoperability with other PK-INIT implementations.
182 * Inital support for Mac OS X Keychain for hx509.
184 * Alias support for inital ticket requests.
186 * Add symbol versioning to selected libraries on platforms that uses
187 GNU link editor: gssapi, hcrypto, heimntlm, hx509, krb5, and libkdc.
189 * New version of imath included in hcrypto.
195 Changes in release 0.8.1
197 * Make ASN.1 library less paranoid to with regard to NUL in string to
198 make it inter-operate with MIT Kerberos again.
200 * Make GSS-API library work again when using gss_acquire_cred
202 * Add symbol versioning to libgssapi when using GNU ld.
208 Changes in release 0.8
212 * HDB extensions support, used by PK-INIT.
214 * New ASN.1 compiler.
216 * GSS-API mechglue from FreeBSD.
218 * Updated SPNEGO to support RFC4178.
220 * Support for Cryptosystem Negotiation Extension (RFC 4537).
222 * A new X.509 library (hx509) and related crypto functions.
224 * A new ntlm library (heimntlm) and related crypto functions.
226 * Updated the built-in crypto library with bignum support using
227 imath, support for RSA and DH and renamed it to libhcrypto.
229 * Subsystem in the KDC, digest, that will perform the digest
230 operation in the KDC, currently supports: CHAP, MS-CHAP-V2, SASL
231 DIGEST-MD5 NTLMv1 and NTLMv2.
233 * KDC will return the "response too big" error to force TCP retries
234 for large (default 1400 bytes) UDP replies. This is common for
237 * Libkafs defaults to use 2b tokens.
239 * Default to use the API cache on Mac OS X.
241 * krb5_kuserok() also checks ~/.k5login.d directory for acl files,
242 see manpage for krb5_kuserok for description.
244 * Many, many, other updates to code and info manual and manual pages.
248 Changes in release 0.7.2
250 * Fix security problem in rshd that enable an attacker to overwrite
251 and change ownership of any file that root could write.
253 * Fix a DOS in telnetd. The attacker could force the server to crash
254 in a NULL de-reference before the user logged in, resulting in inetd
255 turning telnetd off because it forked too fast.
257 * Make gss_acquire_cred(GSS_C_ACCEPT) check that the requested name
258 exists in the keytab before returning success. This allows servers
259 to check if its even possible to use GSSAPI.
261 * Fix receiving end of token delegation for GSS-API. It still wrongly
262 uses subkey for sending for compatibility reasons, this will change
265 * telnetd, login and rshd are now more verbose in logging failed and
270 Changes in release 0.7.1
274 Changes in release 0.7
276 * Support for KCM, a process based credential cache
278 * Support CCAPI credential cache
282 * AES (and the gssapi conterpart, CFX) support
284 * Adding new and improve old documentation
288 Changes in release 0.6.6
290 * Fix security problem in rshd that enable an attacker to overwrite
291 and change ownership of any file that root could write.
293 * Fix a DOS in telnetd. The attacker could force the server to crash
294 in a NULL de-reference before the user logged in, resulting in inetd
295 turning telnetd off because it forked too fast.
297 Changes in release 0.6.5
299 * fix vulnerabilities in telnetd
301 * unbreak Kerberos 4 and kaserver
303 Changes in release 0.6.4
305 * fix vulnerabilities in telnet
307 * rshd: encryption without a separate error socket should now work
309 * telnet now uses appdefaults for the encrypt and forward/forwardable
314 Changes in release 0.6.3
316 * fix vulnerabilities in ftpd
318 * support for linux AFS /proc "syscalls"
320 * support for RFC3244 (Windows 2000 Kerberos Change/Set Password) in
323 * fix possible KDC denial of service
327 Changes in release 0.6.2
329 * Fix possible buffer overrun in v4 kadmin (which now defaults to off)
331 Changes in release 0.6.1
333 * Fixed ARCFOUR suppport
335 * Cross realm vulnerability
337 * kdc: fix denial of service attack
339 * kdc: stop clients from renewing tickets into the future
343 Changes in release 0.6
345 * The DES3 GSS-API mechanism has been changed to inter-operate with
346 other GSSAPI implementations. See man page for gssapi(3) how to turn
347 on generation of correct MIC messages. Next major release of heimdal
348 will generate correct MIC by default.
350 * More complete GSS-API support
352 * Better AFS support: kdc (524) supports 2b; 524 in kdc and AFS
353 support in applications no longer requires Kerberos 4 libs
355 * Kerberos 4 support in kdc defaults to turned off (includes ka and 524)
359 Changes in release 0.5.2
361 * kdc: add option for disabling v4 cross-realm (defaults to off)
365 Changes in release 0.5.1
367 * kadmind: fix remote exploit
369 * kadmind: add option to disable kerberos 4
371 * kdc: make sure kaserver token life is positive
373 * telnet: use the session key if there is no subkey
375 * fix EPSV parsing in ftp
379 Changes in release 0.5
381 * add --detach option to kdc
383 * allow setting forward and forwardable option in telnet from
384 .telnetrc, with override from command line
386 * accept addresses with or without ports in krb5_rd_cred
388 * make it work with modern openssl
390 * use our own string2key function even with openssl (that handles weak
393 * more system-specific requirements in login
395 * do not use getlogin() to determine root in su
397 * telnet: abort if telnetd does not support encryption
399 * update autoconf to 2.53
401 * update config.guess, config.sub
405 Changes in release 0.4e
407 * improve libcrypto and database autoconf tests
409 * do not care about salting of server principals when serving v4 requests
411 * some improvements to gssapi library
413 * test for existing compile_et/libcom_err
419 Changes in release 0.4d
421 * fix some problems when using libcrypto from openssl
423 * handle /dev/ptmx `unix98' ptys on Linux
425 * add some forgotten man pages
427 * rsh: clean-up and add man page
429 * fix -A and -a in builtin-ls in tpd
431 * fix building problem on Irix
433 * make `ktutil get' more efficient
437 Changes in release 0.4c
439 * fix buffer overrun in telnetd
441 * repair some of the v4 fallback code in kinit
443 * add more shared library dependencies
445 * simplify and fix hprop handling of v4 databases
447 * fix some building problems (osf's sia and osfc2 login)
451 Changes in release 0.4b
453 * update the shared library version numbers correctly
455 Changes in release 0.4a
457 * corrected key used for checksum in mk_safe, unfortunately this
458 makes it backwards incompatible
460 * update to autoconf 2.50, libtool 1.4
462 * re-write dns/config lookups (krb5_krbhst API)
464 * make order of using subkeys consistent
470 * remove rfc2052 support, now only rfc2782 is supported
472 * always build with kaserver protocol support in the KDC (assuming
473 KRB4 is enabled) and support for reading kaserver databases in
476 Changes in release 0.3f
478 * change default keytab to ANY:FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab,krb4:/etc/srvtab,
479 the new keytab type that tries both of these in order (SRVTAB is
480 also an alias for krb4:)
482 * improve error reporting and error handling (error messages should
483 be more detailed and more useful)
485 * improve building with openssl
487 * add kadmin -K, rcp -F
489 * fix two incorrect weak DES keys
491 * fix building of kaserver compat in KDC
493 * the API is closer to what MIT krb5 is using
495 * more compatible with windows 2000
497 * removed some memory leaks
501 Changes in release 0.3e
503 * rcp program included
505 * fix buffer overrun in ftpd
507 * handle omitted sequence numbers as zeroes to handle MIT krb5 that
508 cannot generate zero sequence numbers
510 * handle v4 /.k files better
512 * configure/portability fixes
514 * fixes in parsing of options to kadmin (sub-)commands
516 * handle errors in kadmin load better
520 Changes in release 0.3d
524 * fix a bug in 3des gss-api mechanism, making it compatible with the
525 specification and the MIT implementation
527 * make telnetd only allow a specific list of environment variables to
528 stop it from setting `sensitive' variables
530 * try to use an existing libdes
532 * lib/krb5, kdc: use correct usage type for ap-req messages. This
533 should improve compatability with MIT krb5 when using 3DES
536 * kdc: fix memory allocation problem
538 * update config.guess and config.sub
540 * lib/roken: more stuff implemented
542 * bug fixes and portability enhancements
544 Changes in release 0.3c
546 * lib/krb5: memory caches now support the resolve operation
548 * appl/login: set PATH to some sane default
550 * kadmind: handle several realms
552 * bug fixes (including memory leaks)
554 Changes in release 0.3b
556 * kdc: prefer default-salted keys on v5 requests
558 * kdc: lowercase hostnames in v4 mode
560 * hprop: handle more types of MIT salts
562 * lib/krb5: fix memory leak
566 Changes in release 0.3a:
568 * implement arcfour-hmac-md5 to interoperate with W2K
570 * modularise the handling of the master key, and allow for other
571 encryption types. This makes it easier to import a database from
572 some other source without having to re-encrypt all keys.
574 * allow for better control over which encryption types are created
576 * make kinit fallback to v4 if given a v4 KDC
578 * make klist work better with v4 and v5, and add some more MIT
579 compatibility options
581 * make the kdc listen on the krb524 (4444) port for compatibility
582 with MIT krb5 clients
584 * implement more DCE/DFS support, enabled with --enable-dce, see
585 lib/kdfs and appl/dceutils
587 * make the sequence numbers work correctly
591 Changes in release 0.2t:
595 Changes in release 0.2s:
597 * add OpenLDAP support in hdb
599 * login will get v4 tickets when it receives forwarded tickets
601 * xnlock supports both v5 and v4
603 * repair source routing for telnet
605 * fix building problems with krb4 (krb_mk_req)
609 Changes in release 0.2r:
611 * fix realloc memory corruption bug in kdc
613 * `add --key' and `cpw --key' in kadmin
615 * klist supports listing v4 tickets
617 * update config.guess and config.sub
619 * make v4 -> v5 principal name conversion more robust
621 * support for anonymous tickets
625 * telnetd: do not negotiate KERBEROS5 authentication if there's no keytab.
627 * use and set expiration and not password expiration when dumping
628 to/from ka server databases / krb4 databases
630 * make the code happier with 64-bit time_t
632 * follow RFC2782 and by default do not look for non-underscore SRV names
634 Changes in release 0.2q:
636 * bug fix in tcp-handling in kdc
638 * bug fix in expand_hostname
640 Changes in release 0.2p:
642 * bug fix in `kadmin load/merge'
644 * bug fix in krb5_parse_address
646 Changes in release 0.2o:
648 * gss_{import,export}_sec_context added to libgssapi
650 * new option --addresses to kdc (for listening on an explicit set of
653 * bug fixes in the krb4 and kaserver emulation part of the kdc
657 Changes in release 0.2n:
659 * more robust parsing of dump files in kadmin
660 * changed default timestamp format for log messages to extended ISO
661 8601 format (Y-M-DTH:M:S)
662 * changed md4/md5/sha1 APIes to be de-facto `standard'
663 * always make hostname into lower-case before creating principal
664 * small bits of more MIT-compatability
667 Changes in release 0.2m:
669 * handle glibc's getaddrinfo() that returns several ai_canonname
675 Changes in release 0.2l:
679 Changes in release 0.2k:
683 * make struct sockaddr_storage in roken work better on alphas
685 * some missing [hn]to[hn]s fixed.
687 * allow users to change their own passwords with kadmin (with initial
690 * fix stupid bug in parsing KDC specification
692 * add `ktutil change' and `ktutil purge'
694 Changes in release 0.2j:
698 * ftpd works in passive mode
700 * should build on cygwin
702 * work around broken IPv6-code on OpenBSD 2.6, also add configure
703 option --disable-ipv6
705 Changes in release 0.2i:
707 * use getaddrinfo in the missing places.
709 * fix SRV lookup for admin server
711 * use get{addr,name}info everywhere. and implement it in terms of
712 getipnodeby{name,addr} (which uses gethostbyname{,2} and
715 Changes in release 0.2h:
717 * fix typo in kx (now compiles)
719 Changes in release 0.2g:
723 * repair appl/test programs
724 * sockaddr_storage works on solaris (alignment issues)
725 * works better with non-roken getaddrinfo
727 * some non standard C constructs removed
729 Changes in release 0.2f:
731 * support SRV records for kpasswd
732 * look for both _kerberos and krb5-realm when doing host -> realm mapping
734 Changes in release 0.2e:
736 * changed copyright notices to remove `advertising'-clause.
737 * get{addr,name}info added to roken and used in the other code
738 (this makes things work much better with hosts with both v4 and v6
739 addresses, among other things)
740 * do pre-auth for both password and key-based get_in_tkt
741 * support for having several databases
742 * new command `del_enctype' in kadmin
743 * strptime (and new strftime) add to roken
744 * more paranoia about finding libdb
747 Changes in release 0.2d:
749 * new configuration option [libdefaults]default_etypes_des
750 * internal ls in ftpd builds without KRB4
751 * kx/rsh/push/pop_debug tries v5 and v4 consistenly
755 Changes in release 0.2c:
757 * bug fixes (see ChangeLog's for details)
759 Changes in release 0.2b:
762 * actually bump shared library versions
764 Changes in release 0.2a:
766 * a new program verify_krb5_conf for checking your /etc/krb5.conf
767 * add 3DES keys when changing password
768 * support null keys in database
769 * support multiple local realms
770 * implement a keytab backend for AFS KeyFile's
771 * implement a keytab backend for v4 srvtabs
772 * implement `ktutil copy'
773 * support password quality control in v4 kadmind
774 * improvements in v4 compat kadmind
775 * handle the case of having the correct cred in the ccache but with
776 the wrong encryption type better
777 * v6-ify the remaining programs.
778 * internal ls in ftpd
779 * rename strcpy_truncate/strcat_truncate to strlcpy/strlcat
780 * add `ank --random-password' and `cpw --random-password' in kadmin
781 * some programs and documentation for trying to talk to a W2K KDC
784 Changes in release 0.1m:
786 * support for getting default from krb5.conf for kinit/kf/rsh/telnet.
787 From Miroslav Ruda <ruda@ics.muni.cz>
788 * v6-ify hprop and hpropd
789 * support numeric addresses in krb5_mk_req
790 * shadow support in login and su. From Miroslav Ruda <ruda@ics.muni.cz>
791 * make rsh/rshd IPv6-aware
792 * make the gssapi sample applications better at reporting errors
794 * handle systems with v6-aware libc and non-v6 kernels (like Linux
795 with glibc 2.1) better
796 * hide failure of ERPT in ftp
799 Changes in release 0.1l:
801 * make ftp and ftpd IPv6-aware
802 * add inet_pton to roken
803 * more IPv6-awareness
804 * make mini_inetd v6 aware
806 Changes in release 0.1k:
808 * bump shared libraries versions
809 * add roken version of inet_ntop
810 * merge more changes to rshd
812 Changes in release 0.1j:
814 * restore back to the `old' 3DES code. This was supposed to be done
815 in 0.1h and 0.1i but I did a CVS screw-up.
816 * make telnetd handle v6 connections
818 Changes in release 0.1i:
820 * start using `struct sockaddr_storage' which simplifies the code
821 (with a fallback definition if it's not defined)
822 * bug fixes (including in hprop and kf)
823 * don't use mawk which seems to mishandle roken.awk
824 * get_addrs should be able to handle v6 addresses on Linux (with the
825 required patch to the Linux kernel -- ask within)
826 * rshd builds with shadow passwords
828 Changes in release 0.1h:
830 * kf: new program for forwarding credentials
832 * make forwarding credentials work with MIT code
833 * better conversion of ka database
834 * add etc/services.append
835 * correct `modified by' from kpasswdd
838 Changes in release 0.1g:
840 * kgetcred: new program for explicitly obtaining tickets
845 Changes in release 0.1f;
847 * experimental support for v4 kadmin protokoll in kadmind
850 Changes in release 0.1e:
852 * try to handle old DCE and MIT kdcs
853 * support for older versions of credential cache files and keytabs
854 * postdated tickets work
855 * support for password quality checks in kpasswdd
856 * new flag --enable-kaserver for kdc
858 * prototype su program
859 * updated (some) manpages
860 * support for KDC resource records
861 * should build with --without-krb4
864 Changes in release 0.1d:
866 * Support building with DB2 (uses 1.85-compat API)
867 * Support krb5-realm.DOMAIN in DNS
868 * new `ktutil srvcreate'
869 * v4/kafs support in klist/kdestroy
872 Changes in release 0.1c:
874 * fix ASN.1 encoding of signed integers
875 * somewhat working `ktutil get'
876 * some documentation updates
877 * update to Autoconf 2.13 and Automake 1.4
878 * the usual bug fixes
880 Changes in release 0.1b:
882 * some old -> new crypto conversion utils
885 Changes in release 0.1a:
889 * make sure we ask for DES keys in gssapi
890 * support signed ints in ASN1
893 Changes in release 0.0u:
897 Changes in release 0.0t:
899 * more robust parsing of krb5.conf
900 * include net{read,write} in lib/roken
903 Changes in release 0.0s:
905 * kludges for parsing options to rsh
906 * more robust parsing of krb5.conf
907 * removed some arbitrary limits
910 Changes in release 0.0r:
912 * default options for some programs
915 Changes in release 0.0q:
917 * support for building shared libraries with libtool
920 Changes in release 0.0p:
922 * keytab moved to /etc/krb5.keytab
923 * avoid false detection of IPv6 on Linux
924 * Lots of more functionality in the gssapi-library
925 * hprop can now read ka-server databases
928 Changes in release 0.0o:
930 * FTP with GSSAPI support.
933 Changes in release 0.0n:
935 * Incremental database propagation.
936 * Somewhat improved kadmin ui; the stuff in admin is now removed.
937 * Some support for using enctypes instead of keytypes.
938 * Lots of other improvement and bug fixes, see ChangeLog for details.