User-Visible krb5-strength Changes
-krb5-strength 3.0 (unreleased)
+krb5-strength 3.3 (2023-12-25)
+
+ heimdal-history now requires the Perl modules Const::Fast and
+ JSON::MaybeXS instead of Readonly and JSON.
+
+ Increase hash iterations for heimdal-history by about 10% to maintain
+ the time required for a password hash at about 0.1 seconds on not
+ horribly modern hardware. This will affect newly-stored history
+ entries but will not invalidate existing password history entries.
+
+ Explicitly erase the copy of the password made in the Heimdal plugin
+ before freeing memory.
+
+ Add a spec file for building RPMs, contributed by Daria Phoebe
+ Brashear.
+
+ Update to rra-c-util 10.5:
+
+ * Assume a working snprintf rather than supplying a replacement.
+ * Fix detection of reallocarray on NetBSD.
+ * Check that Kerberos header files were found during configure.
+ * Use AS_ECHO in all Autoconf macros.
+ * Always use lib32 or lib64 if it exists, even on Debian.
+ * Fix rejection of unknown Clang warning flags.
+ * Disable -Wreserved-identifier for Clang warning builds.
+
+krb5-strength 3.2 (2020-05-17)
+
+ Add new -c (--check-only) option to heimdal-history to check whether a
+ password would be accepted without updating the history or password
+ length databases. Based on work by macrotex.
+
+ Increase hash iterations for heimdal-history by roughly a factor of
+ four to increase the time required for a password hash to about 0.1
+ seconds on modern hardware. This will affect newly-stored history
+ entries but will not invalidate existing password history entries.
+
+ Support building without CrackLib support by passing
+ --without-cracklib to configure. This makes the code a bit simpler
+ and lighter if you don't intend to ever use the CrackLib support.
+
+ krb5-strength-wordlist now requires Perl 5.010 or later.
+
+ Use explicit_bzero instead of memset, where available, to overwrite
+ copies of passwords before freeing memory. This reduces the lifetime
+ of passwords in memory.
+
+ Skip tests that require the stronger rule configuration in the
+ embedded CrackLib when built against system CrackLib. This avoids
+ test failures when built with system CrackLib.
+
+ Rework the check-valgrind target to use the new C TAP Harness valgrind
+ support and automatically check the valgrind log files for errors at
+ the end of the test suite.
+
+ Add SPDX-License-Identifier headers to all substantial source files
+ other than those in the bundled version of CrackLib.
+
+ Update to rra-c-util 8.2:
+
+ * Implement explicit_bzero with memset if it is not available.
+ * Reformat all C source using clang-format 10.
+ * Work around Test::Strict not skipping .git directories.
+ * Fix warnings with perltidy 20190601 and Perl::Critic 1.134.
+ * Improve check for obsolete strings.
+ * Use a more standard all-permissive license.
+ * Add SPDX-License-Identifier headers to all substantial source files.
+ * Skip more build system files when running the test suite.
+ * Fix warnings with Clang 10, GCC 10, and the Clang static analyzer.
+ * Exclude more valgrind false positives with Kerberos libraries.
+ * Improve support for AIX's bundled Kerberos.
+
+ Update to C TAP Harness 4.7:
+
+ * Fix warnings with GCC 10.
+ * Reformat all C source using clang-format 10.
+ * Fixed malloc error checking in bstrndup.
+ * Add support for valgrind testing via test list options.
+ * Report test failures as left and right, not wanted and seen.
+ * Fix is_string comparisons involving NULL pointers and "(null)".
+ * Add SPDX-License-Identifier headers to all substantial source files.
+
+krb5-strength 3.1 (2016-12-25)
+
+ A new configuration option, cracklib_maxlen, can be set to skip
+ CrackLib checks of passwords longer than that length. The CrackLib
+ rules were designed in a world in which most passwords were four to
+ eight characters long and tend to spuriously reject longer passwords.
+ SQLite dictionaries work better for checking longer passwords and
+ passphrases. Patch from Jorj Bauer.
+
+ The require_classes configuration option can now require a particular
+ number of character classes in the password (whatever those classes
+ are). Patch from Toby Blake.
+
+ Change the error messages returned for passwords that fail strength
+ checking to start with a capital letter. This appears to be more
+ consistent with the error message conventions used inside Heimdal.
+
+ Change the DB_File::Lock calling method in heimdal-history to work
+ properly with the (buggy) CPAN version of DB_File::Lock, instead of
+ relying on Debian's patched version. Thanks to Bernt Jernberg for the
+ report.
+
+ Apply the SuSE patch for a buffer overflow when using duplicate rules
+ to the embedded CrackLib. No duplicating rules are used in the rule
+ set included with this package, and this package doesn't expose the
+ general API, so this was not exploitable, but best to close the latent
+ issue. (The other recent CrackLib vulnerability, CVE-2016-6318,
+ doesn't apply since all the GECOS manipulation code was removed from
+ the embedded CrackLib in this package.)
+
+ Patch the mkdict and packer in the embedded copy of CrackLib to force
+ C locale when sorting (avoiding a corrupted dictionary) and warn and
+ skip out-of-order words rather than creating a corrupted dictionary.
+ Patch from Mark Sirota.
+
+ Configuration instrutions are now in the heimdal-history and
+ heimdal-strength man pages and a new krb5-strength man page (which
+ documents configuration of the KDC plugin) instead of the README file
+ to make it more accessible after the software has been installed.
+
+ Update to rra-c-util 6.2:
+
+ * Use calloc in preference to malloc wherever appropriate.
+ * Use reallocarray in preference to realloc wherever appropriate.
+ * Suppress warnings from Kerberos headers under make warnings.
+ * Support the embedded Kerberos in Solaris 10 in library probes.
+ * Add missing va_end in xasprintf implementation.
+ * Fix logic in Test::RRA::Automake for new Automake dist checking.
+ * Fix all return-value checks for snprintf to avoid off-by-one error.
+ * Update warning flags for make warnings to GCC 6.1.0.
+ * Fix Test::RRA::Config for new "do" semantics in Perl 5.22.2.
+ * Add a new test for obsolete eyrie.org URLs.
+ * Require Test::Strict 0.25 or newer for Perl strictness checks.
+
+ Update to C TAP Harness 4.1:
+
+ * Replace all remaining uses of sprintf.
+ * Test lists may now have comments and blank lines.
+ * runtests -v will show the complete output from a test.
+ * Fix segfault in runtests when given an empty test list.
+ * Tests use C_TAP_SOURCE and C_TAP_BUILD instead of SOURCE and BUILD.
+
+krb5-strength 3.0 (2014-03-25)
The krb5-strength plugin and heimdal-strength program now support a
SQLite password dictionary. This format of dictionary can detect any