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Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.5

New features

- Support GSS name extensions/attributes
- SHA512 support
- No Kerberos 4 support
- Basic support for MIT Admin protocol (SECGSS flavor)
   in kadmind (extract keytab)
- Replace editline with libedit

Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.4

New features

- Support for reading MIT database file directly
- KCM is polished up and now used in production
- NTLM first class citizen, credentials stored in KCM
- Table driven ASN.1 compiler, smaller!, not enabled by default
- Native Windows client support

Notes

- Disabled write support NDBM hdb backend (read still in there) since
   it can't handle large records, please migrate to a diffrent backend
   (like BDB4)

Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.3

Bug fixes
- Check the GSS-API checksum exists before trying to use it [CVE-2010-1321]
- Check NULL pointers before dereference them [kdc]

Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.2

Bug fixes

- Don't mix length when clearing hmac (could memset too much)
- More paranoid underrun checking when decrypting packets
- Check the password change requests and refuse to answer empty packets
- Build on OpenSolaris
- Renumber AD-SIGNED-TICKET since it was stolen from US
- Don't cache /dev/*random file descriptor, it doesn't get unloaded
- Make C++ safe
- Misc warnings

Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.1

Bug fixes

- Store KDC offset in credentials
- Many many more bug fixes

Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3.1

New features

- Make work with OpenLDAPs krb5 overlay

Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.3

New features

- Partial support for MIT kadmind rpc protocol in kadmind
- Better support for finding keytab entries when using SPN aliases in the KDC
- Support BER in ASN.1 library (needed for CMS)
- Support decryption in Keychain private keys
- Support for new sqlite based credential cache
- Try both KDC referals and the common DNS reverse lookup in GSS-API
- Fix the KCM to not leak resources on failure
- Add IPv6 support to iprop
- Support localization of error strings in
   kinit/klist/kdestroy and Kerberos library
- Remove Kerberos 4 support in application (still in KDC)
- Deprecate DES
- Support i18n password in windows domains (using UTF-8)
- More complete API emulation of OpenSSL in hcrypto
- Support for ECDSA and ECDH when linking with OpenSSL

API changes

- Support for settin friendly name on credential caches
- Move to using doxygen to generate documentation.
- Sprinkling __attribute__((depricated)) for old function to be removed
- Support to export LAST-REQUST information in AS-REQ
- Support for client deferrals in in AS-REQ
- Add seek support for krb5_storage.
- Support for split AS-REQ, first step for IA-KERB
- Fix many memory leaks and bugs
- Improved regression test
- Support krb5_cccol
- Switch to krb5_set_error_message
- Support krb5_crypto_*_iov
- Switch to use EVP for most function
- Use SOCK_CLOEXEC and O_CLOEXEC (close on exec)
- Add support for GSS_C_DELEG_POLICY_FLAG
- Add krb5_cc_[gs]et_config to store data in the credential caches
- PTY testing application

Bugfixes
- Make building on AIX6 possible.
- Bugfixes in LDAP KDC code to make it more stable
- Make ipropd-slave reconnect when master down gown


Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.2.1

* Bug

  [HEIMDAL-147] - Heimdal 1.2 not compiling on Solaris
  [HEIMDAL-151] - Make canned tests work again after cert expired
  [HEIMDAL-152] - iprop test: use full hostname to avoid realm
                  resolving errors
  [HEIMDAL-153] - ftp: Use the correct length for unmap, msync

Release Notes - Heimdal - Version Heimdal 1.2

* Bug

  [HEIMDAL-10] - Follow-up on bug report for SEGFAULT in
   gss_display_name/gss_export_name when using SPNEGO
  [HEIMDAL-15] - Re: [Heimdal-bugs] potential bug in Heimdal 1.1
  [HEIMDAL-17] - Remove support for depricated [libdefaults]capath
  [HEIMDAL-52] - hdb overwrite aliases for db databases
  [HEIMDAL-54] - Two issues which affect credentials delegation
  [HEIMDAL-58] - sockbuf.c calls setsockopt with bad args
  [HEIMDAL-62] - Fix printing of sig_atomic_t
  [HEIMDAL-87] - heimdal 1.1 not building under cygwin in hcrypto
  [HEIMDAL-105] - rcp: sync rcp with upstream bsd rcp codebase
  [HEIMDAL-117] - Use libtool to detect symbol versioning (Debian Bug#453241)

* Improvement
  [HEIMDAL-67] - Fix locking and store credential in atomic writes
                 in the FILE credential cache
  [HEIMDAL-106] - make compile on cygwin again
  [HEIMDAL-107] - Replace old random key generation in des module
                  and use it with RAND_ function instead
  [HEIMDAL-115] - Better documentation and compatibility in hcrypto
                  in regards to OpenSSL

* New Feature
  [HEIMDAL-3] - pkinit alg agility PRF test vectors
  [HEIMDAL-14] - Add libwind to Heimdal
  [HEIMDAL-16] - Use libwind in hx509
  [HEIMDAL-55] - Add flag to krb5 to not add GSS-API INT|CONF to
                 the negotiation
  [HEIMDAL-74] - Add support to report extended error message back
                 in AS-REQ to support windows clients
  [HEIMDAL-116] - test pty based application (using rkpty)
  [HEIMDAL-120] - Use new OpenLDAP API (older deprecated)

* Task
  [HEIMDAL-63] - Dont try key usage KRB5_KU_AP_REQ_AUTH for TGS-REQ.
                 This drop compatibility with pre 0.3d KDCs.
  [HEIMDAL-64] - kcm: first implementation of kcm-move-cache
  [HEIMDAL-65] - Failed to compile with --disable-pk-init
  [HEIMDAL-80] - verify that [VU#162289]: gcc silently discards some
                 wraparound checks doesn't apply to Heimdal

Changes in release 1.1

* Read-only PKCS11 provider built-in to hx509.

* Documentation for hx509, hcrypto and ntlm libraries improved.

* Better compatibilty with Windows 2008 Server pre-releases and Vista.

* Mac OS X 10.5 support for native credential cache.

* Provide pkg-config file for Heimdal (heimdal-gssapi.pc).

* Bug fixes.

Changes in release 1.0.2

* Ubuntu packages.

* Bug fixes.

Changes in release 1.0.1

* Serveral bug fixes to iprop.

* Make work on platforms without dlopen.

* Add RFC3526 modp group14 as default.

* Handle [kdc] database = { } entries without realm = stanzas.

* Make krb5_get_renewed_creds work.

* Make kaserver preauth work again.

* Bug fixes.

Changes in release 1.0

* Add gss_pseudo_random() for mechglue and krb5.

* Make session key for the krbtgt be selected by the best encryption
   type of the client.

* Better interoperability with other PK-INIT implementations.

* Inital support for Mac OS X Keychain for hx509.

* Alias support for inital ticket requests.

* Add symbol versioning to selected libraries on platforms that uses
   GNU link editor: gssapi, hcrypto, heimntlm, hx509, krb5, and libkdc.

* New version of imath included in hcrypto.

* Fix memory leaks.

* Bugs fixes.

Changes in release 0.8.1

* Make ASN.1 library less paranoid to with regard to NUL in string to
   make it inter-operate with MIT Kerberos again.

* Make GSS-API library work again when using gss_acquire_cred

* Add symbol versioning to libgssapi when using GNU ld.

* Fix memory leaks

* Bugs fixes

Changes in release 0.8

* PK-INIT support.

* HDB extensions support, used by PK-INIT.

* New ASN.1 compiler.

* GSS-API mechglue from FreeBSD.

* Updated SPNEGO to support RFC4178.

* Support for Cryptosystem Negotiation Extension (RFC 4537).

* A new X.509 library (hx509) and related crypto functions.

* A new ntlm library (heimntlm) and related crypto functions.

* Updated the built-in crypto library with bignum support using
   imath, support for RSA and DH and renamed it to libhcrypto.

* Subsystem in the KDC, digest, that will perform the digest
   operation in the KDC, currently supports: CHAP, MS-CHAP-V2, SASL
   DIGEST-MD5 NTLMv1 and NTLMv2.

* KDC will return the "response too big" error to force TCP retries
   for large (default 1400 bytes) UDP replies.  This is common for
   PK-INIT requests.

* Libkafs defaults to use 2b tokens.

* Default to use the API cache on Mac OS X.

* krb5_kuserok() also checks ~/.k5login.d directory for acl files,
   see manpage for krb5_kuserok for description.

* Many, many, other updates to code and info manual and manual pages.

* Bug fixes

Changes in release 0.7.2

* Fix security problem in rshd that enable an attacker to overwrite
  and change ownership of any file that root could write.

* Fix a DOS in telnetd. The attacker could force the server to crash
  in a NULL de-reference before the user logged in, resulting in inetd
  turning telnetd off because it forked too fast.

* Make gss_acquire_cred(GSS_C_ACCEPT) check that the requested name
  exists in the keytab before returning success. This allows servers
  to check if its even possible to use GSSAPI.

* Fix receiving end of token delegation for GSS-API. It still wrongly
  uses subkey for sending for compatibility reasons, this will change
  in 0.8.

* telnetd, login and rshd are now more verbose in logging failed and
  successful logins.

* Bug fixes

Changes in release 0.7.1

* Bug fixes

Changes in release 0.7

* Support for KCM, a process based credential cache

* Support CCAPI credential cache

* SPNEGO support

* AES (and the gssapi conterpart, CFX) support

* Adding new and improve old documentation

* Bug fixes

Changes in release 0.6.6

* Fix security problem in rshd that enable an attacker to overwrite
  and change ownership of any file that root could write.

* Fix a DOS in telnetd. The attacker could force the server to crash
  in a NULL de-reference before the user logged in, resulting in inetd
  turning telnetd off because it forked too fast.

Changes in release 0.6.5

* fix vulnerabilities in telnetd

* unbreak Kerberos 4 and kaserver

Changes in release 0.6.4

* fix vulnerabilities in telnet

* rshd: encryption without a separate error socket should now work

* telnet now uses appdefaults for the encrypt and forward/forwardable
   settings

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.6.3

* fix vulnerabilities in ftpd

* support for linux AFS /proc "syscalls"

* support for RFC3244 (Windows 2000 Kerberos Change/Set Password) in
   kpasswdd

* fix possible KDC denial of service

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.6.2

* Fix possible buffer overrun in v4 kadmin (which now defaults to off)

Changes in release 0.6.1

* Fixed ARCFOUR suppport

* Cross realm vulnerability

* kdc: fix denial of service attack

* kdc: stop clients from renewing tickets into the future

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.6

* The DES3 GSS-API mechanism has been changed to inter-operate with
  other GSSAPI implementations. See man page for gssapi(3) how to turn
  on generation of correct MIC messages. Next major release of heimdal
  will generate correct MIC by default.

* More complete GSS-API support

* Better AFS support: kdc (524) supports 2b; 524 in kdc and AFS
  support in applications no longer requires Kerberos 4 libs

* Kerberos 4 support in kdc defaults to turned off (includes ka and 524)

* other bug fixes

Changes in release 0.5.2

* kdc: add option for disabling v4 cross-realm (defaults to off)

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.5.1

* kadmind: fix remote exploit

* kadmind: add option to disable kerberos 4

* kdc: make sure kaserver token life is positive

* telnet: use the session key if there is no subkey

* fix EPSV parsing in ftp

* other bug fixes

Changes in release 0.5

* add --detach option to kdc

* allow setting forward and forwardable option in telnet from
   .telnetrc, with override from command line

* accept addresses with or without ports in krb5_rd_cred

* make it work with modern openssl

* use our own string2key function even with openssl (that handles weak
   keys incorrectly)

* more system-specific requirements in login

* do not use getlogin() to determine root in su

* telnet: abort if telnetd does not support encryption

* update autoconf to 2.53

* update config.guess, config.sub

* other bug fixes

Changes in release 0.4e

* improve libcrypto and database autoconf tests

* do not care about salting of server principals when serving v4 requests

* some improvements to gssapi library

* test for existing compile_et/libcom_err

* portability fixes

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.4d

* fix some problems when using libcrypto from openssl

* handle /dev/ptmx `unix98' ptys on Linux

* add some forgotten man pages

* rsh: clean-up and add man page

* fix -A and -a in builtin-ls in tpd

* fix building problem on Irix

* make `ktutil get' more efficient

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.4c

* fix buffer overrun in telnetd

* repair some of the v4 fallback code in kinit

* add more shared library dependencies

* simplify and fix hprop handling of v4 databases

* fix some building problems (osf's sia and osfc2 login)

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.4b

* update the shared library version numbers correctly

Changes in release 0.4a

* corrected key used for checksum in mk_safe, unfortunately this
   makes it backwards incompatible

* update to autoconf 2.50, libtool 1.4

* re-write dns/config lookups (krb5_krbhst API)

* make order of using subkeys consistent

* add man page links

* add more man pages

* remove rfc2052 support, now only rfc2782 is supported

* always build with kaserver protocol support in the KDC (assuming
   KRB4 is enabled) and support for reading kaserver databases in
   hprop

Changes in release 0.3f

* change default keytab to ANY:FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab,krb4:/etc/srvtab,
   the new keytab type that tries both of these in order (SRVTAB is
   also an alias for krb4:)

* improve error reporting and error handling (error messages should
   be more detailed and more useful)

* improve building with openssl

* add kadmin -K, rcp -F

* fix two incorrect weak DES keys

* fix building of kaserver compat in KDC

* the API is closer to what MIT krb5 is using

* more compatible with windows 2000

* removed some memory leaks

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.3e

* rcp program included

* fix buffer overrun in ftpd

* handle omitted sequence numbers as zeroes to handle MIT krb5 that
   cannot generate zero sequence numbers

* handle v4 /.k files better

* configure/portability fixes

* fixes in parsing of options to kadmin (sub-)commands

* handle errors in kadmin load better

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.3d

* add krb5-config

* fix a bug in 3des gss-api mechanism, making it compatible with the
   specification and the MIT implementation

* make telnetd only allow a specific list of environment variables to
   stop it from setting `sensitive' variables

* try to use an existing libdes

* lib/krb5, kdc: use correct usage type for ap-req messages.  This
   should improve compatability with MIT krb5 when using 3DES
   encryption types

* kdc: fix memory allocation problem

* update config.guess and config.sub

* lib/roken: more stuff implemented

* bug fixes and portability enhancements

Changes in release 0.3c

* lib/krb5: memory caches now support the resolve operation

* appl/login: set PATH to some sane default

* kadmind: handle several realms

* bug fixes (including memory leaks)

Changes in release 0.3b

* kdc: prefer default-salted keys on v5 requests

* kdc: lowercase hostnames in v4 mode

* hprop: handle more types of MIT salts

* lib/krb5: fix memory leak

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.3a:

* implement arcfour-hmac-md5 to interoperate with W2K

* modularise the handling of the master key, and allow for other
   encryption types. This makes it easier to import a database from
   some other source without having to re-encrypt all keys.

* allow for better control over which encryption types are created

* make kinit fallback to v4 if given a v4 KDC

* make klist work better with v4 and v5, and add some more MIT
   compatibility options

* make the kdc listen on the krb524 (4444) port for compatibility
   with MIT krb5 clients

* implement more DCE/DFS support, enabled with --enable-dce, see
   lib/kdfs and appl/dceutils

* make the sequence numbers work correctly

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2t:

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2s:

* add OpenLDAP support in hdb

* login will get v4 tickets when it receives forwarded tickets

* xnlock supports both v5 and v4

* repair source routing for telnet

* fix building problems with krb4 (krb_mk_req)

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2r:

* fix realloc memory corruption bug in kdc

* `add --key' and `cpw --key' in kadmin

* klist supports listing v4 tickets

* update config.guess and config.sub

* make v4 -> v5 principal name conversion more robust

* support for anonymous tickets

* new man-pages

* telnetd: do not negotiate KERBEROS5 authentication if there's no keytab.

* use and set expiration and not password expiration when dumping
   to/from ka server databases / krb4 databases

* make the code happier with 64-bit time_t

* follow RFC2782 and by default do not look for non-underscore SRV names

Changes in release 0.2q:

* bug fix in tcp-handling in kdc

* bug fix in expand_hostname

Changes in release 0.2p:

* bug fix in `kadmin load/merge'

* bug fix in krb5_parse_address

Changes in release 0.2o:

* gss_{import,export}_sec_context added to libgssapi

* new option --addresses to kdc (for listening on an explicit set of
   addresses)

* bug fixes in the krb4 and kaserver emulation part of the kdc

* other bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2n:

* more robust parsing of dump files in kadmin
* changed default timestamp format for log messages to extended ISO
   8601 format (Y-M-DTH:M:S)
* changed md4/md5/sha1 APIes to be de-facto `standard'
* always make hostname into lower-case before creating principal
* small bits of more MIT-compatability
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2m:

* handle glibc's getaddrinfo() that returns several ai_canonname

* new endian test

* man pages fixes

Changes in release 0.2l:

* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2k:

* better IPv6 test

* make struct sockaddr_storage in roken work better on alphas

* some missing [hn]to[hn]s fixed.

* allow users to change their own passwords with kadmin (with initial
   tickets)

* fix stupid bug in parsing KDC specification

* add `ktutil change' and `ktutil purge'

Changes in release 0.2j:

* builds on Irix

* ftpd works in passive mode

* should build on cygwin

* work around broken IPv6-code on OpenBSD 2.6, also add configure
   option --disable-ipv6

Changes in release 0.2i:

* use getaddrinfo in the missing places.

* fix SRV lookup for admin server

* use get{addr,name}info everywhere.  and implement it in terms of
   getipnodeby{name,addr} (which uses gethostbyname{,2} and
   gethostbyaddr)

Changes in release 0.2h:

* fix typo in kx (now compiles)

Changes in release 0.2g:

* lots of bug fixes:
   * push works
   * repair appl/test programs
   * sockaddr_storage works on solaris (alignment issues)
   * works better with non-roken getaddrinfo
   * rsh works
   * some non standard C constructs removed

Changes in release 0.2f:

* support SRV records for kpasswd
* look for both _kerberos and krb5-realm when doing host -> realm mapping

Changes in release 0.2e:

* changed copyright notices to remove `advertising'-clause.
* get{addr,name}info added to roken and used in the other code
   (this makes things work much better with hosts with both v4 and v6
    addresses, among other things)
* do pre-auth for both password and key-based get_in_tkt
* support for having several databases
* new command `del_enctype' in kadmin
* strptime (and new strftime) add to roken
* more paranoia about finding libdb
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2d:

* new configuration option [libdefaults]default_etypes_des
* internal ls in ftpd builds without KRB4
* kx/rsh/push/pop_debug tries v5 and v4 consistenly
* build bug fixes
* other bug fixes

Changes in release 0.2c:

* bug fixes (see ChangeLog's for details)

Changes in release 0.2b:

* bug fixes
* actually bump shared library versions

Changes in release 0.2a:

* a new program verify_krb5_conf for checking your /etc/krb5.conf
* add 3DES keys when changing password
* support null keys in database
* support multiple local realms
* implement a keytab backend for AFS KeyFile's
* implement a keytab backend for v4 srvtabs
* implement `ktutil copy'
* support password quality control in v4 kadmind
* improvements in v4 compat kadmind
* handle the case of having the correct cred in the ccache but with
   the wrong encryption type better
* v6-ify the remaining programs.
* internal ls in ftpd
* rename strcpy_truncate/strcat_truncate to strlcpy/strlcat
* add `ank --random-password' and `cpw --random-password' in kadmin
* some programs and documentation for trying to talk to a W2K KDC
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1m:

* support for getting default from krb5.conf for kinit/kf/rsh/telnet.
   From Miroslav Ruda <ruda@ics.muni.cz>
* v6-ify hprop and hpropd
* support numeric addresses in krb5_mk_req
* shadow support in login and su. From Miroslav Ruda <ruda@ics.muni.cz>
* make rsh/rshd IPv6-aware
* make the gssapi sample applications better at reporting errors
* lots of bug fixes
* handle systems with v6-aware libc and non-v6 kernels (like Linux
   with glibc 2.1) better
* hide failure of ERPT in ftp
* lots of bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1l:

* make ftp and ftpd IPv6-aware
* add inet_pton to roken
* more IPv6-awareness
* make mini_inetd v6 aware

Changes in release 0.1k:

* bump shared libraries versions
* add roken version of inet_ntop
* merge more changes to rshd

Changes in release 0.1j:

* restore back to the `old' 3DES code.  This was supposed to be done
   in 0.1h and 0.1i but I did a CVS screw-up.
* make telnetd handle v6 connections

Changes in release 0.1i:

* start using `struct sockaddr_storage' which simplifies the code
   (with a fallback definition if it's not defined)
* bug fixes (including in hprop and kf)
* don't use mawk which seems to mishandle roken.awk
* get_addrs should be able to handle v6 addresses on Linux (with the
   required patch to the Linux kernel -- ask within)
* rshd builds with shadow passwords

Changes in release 0.1h:

* kf: new program for forwarding credentials
* portability fixes
* make forwarding credentials work with MIT code
* better conversion of ka database
* add etc/services.append
* correct `modified by' from kpasswdd
* lots of bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1g:

* kgetcred: new program for explicitly obtaining tickets
* configure fixes
* krb5-aware kx
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1f;

* experimental support for v4 kadmin protokoll in kadmind
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1e:

* try to handle old DCE and MIT kdcs
* support for older versions of credential cache files and keytabs
* postdated tickets work
* support for password quality checks in kpasswdd
* new flag --enable-kaserver for kdc
* renew fixes
* prototype su program
* updated (some) manpages
* support for KDC resource records
* should build with --without-krb4
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1d:

* Support building with DB2 (uses 1.85-compat API)
* Support krb5-realm.DOMAIN in DNS
* new `ktutil srvcreate'
* v4/kafs support in klist/kdestroy
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1c:

* fix ASN.1 encoding of signed integers
* somewhat working `ktutil get'
* some documentation updates
* update to Autoconf 2.13 and Automake 1.4
* the usual bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1b:

* some old -> new crypto conversion utils
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.1a:

* new crypto code
* more bug fixes
* make sure we ask for DES keys in gssapi
* support signed ints in ASN1
* IPv6-bug fixes

Changes in release 0.0u:

* lots of bug fixes

Changes in release 0.0t:

* more robust parsing of krb5.conf
* include net{read,write} in lib/roken
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.0s:

* kludges for parsing options to rsh
* more robust parsing of krb5.conf
* removed some arbitrary limits
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.0r:

* default options for some programs
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.0q:

* support for building shared libraries with libtool
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.0p:

* keytab moved to /etc/krb5.keytab
* avoid false detection of IPv6 on Linux
* Lots of more functionality in the gssapi-library
* hprop can now read ka-server databases
* bug fixes

Changes in release 0.0o:

* FTP with GSSAPI support.
* Bug fixes.

Changes in release 0.0n:

* Incremental database propagation.
* Somewhat improved kadmin ui; the stuff in admin is now removed.
* Some support for using enctypes instead of keytypes.
* Lots of other improvement and bug fixes, see ChangeLog for details.