stunnel-users August 2021

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Requests to cloud server that requires host header
by Lorne Kates 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

(related to Akamai message from before-- but I have better troubleshooting information). I'm tying to route traffic through stunnel to a "cloud" based-endpoint. That endpoint has a static server name-- test.authorize.net. (This is the dev sandbox for auth.net). But if you do an nslookup on test.authorize.net, you'll get back a different servername and IP, because it's so wonderfully "cloud". Stunnel apparently tries to connect to the nslookup value. The server rejects the request because it can't route it back to test.authorize.net. I've tried adding "delay = yes" and "sni = test.authorize.net", but neither work. To see this in action, a simple setup with any accept, then connect to test.authorize.net:443 in client = yes mode. This is what a valid response looks like (13 -- give me the darn merchant ID in a POST): https://test.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll This is what you'll get if you try to use stunnel (400 invalid url) : https://23.195.204.150/gateway/transact.dll So how can I get stunnel to send the proper Request Header (host: test.authorize.net), make sure it's using http/1.1, etc?

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Re: [stunnel-users] CPU 100%
by Eric Eberhard 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Long ago I had a server with a bad network card. Every once in a while it would spew uncontrollable bytes onto the network. If you open a stunnel connection and it does that this could very well be the problem. If it cheap, try changing the network card. If not, you should be able to look in your firewall/router and it will tell you who is sending what bytes to whomever. See if that machine is indeed streaming the bytes in massive quantities. If not, I would suspect your stunnel is getting stuck in it's own loop. There are a million reasons this can happen (well a few less than a million) - such as maybe a bad library in the FreeBSD or a bad choice in the Makefile - such as doing threads or something in a way your O/S does not like (I use threads=fork or whatever it is, instead of actual threading). You might tinker with some of the options that make the stunnel build and try different ones. Especially if stunnel was compiled on a different version of the O/S - could be differences in bytes in things and who knows what. That is all I can suggest beyond setting the debug level to 7 (I think is highest) and then watching the log file. Eric From: stunnel-users [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@stunnel.org] On Behalf Of Murrey, Brian J. Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 10:57 AM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: [stunnel-users] CPU 100% We are running stunnel 5.49 on FreeBSD 11.2 and we're running into a problem once in a while. CPU pegs at 100% when we get an stunnel connection from one of our external devices. This affects 100% of all cores and we can't even log in to console. To mitigate this temporarily, we have a script running in the background to watch when stunnel begins to spike and restarts the daemon. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, and so far I have been unable to distinguish what makes the connection do this to the CPU. Have any of you run in to this issue? Sincerely, Brian Murrey System Engineer II, IT Infrastructure _____ NOTICE: This message may contain privileged and confidential information and/or protected health information intended solely for the use of the named recipient and may be privileged or otherwise protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you should immediately notify the sender and delete this message. Do not disseminate, reproduce, or review this message or attachments if you are not the intended recipient. The sender or others may have legal rights restricting the dissemination of the information contained in this message and, as a result, remedies against you in the event of the improper dissemination of confidential information, trade secrets, personal information or privileged communications. This message is the work of the sender and does not necessarily reflect the position, views, or policies of TriMedx LLC or its affiliates. WARNING: The integrity and security of this message cannot be guaranteed and may contain or transmit a virus or other illicit code. Neither TriMedx LLC or its affiliates accept liability for any damage attributable to viruses or illicit code transmitted through this message or an attachment.

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older browsers, stunnel and privoxy
by kovacs janos 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

sorry to bother, im trying to make older browsers be able to display TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 sites. i heard stunnel cant be configured to always forward to the current site address dynamically, thats why i would use privoxy. the browser is configured to send to: 127.0.0.1 443 stunnel config has this at the end: [Tunnel_in] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:443 connect = 127.0.0.1:8118 verifyChain = yes CAfile = ca-certs.pem checkHost = localhost 127.0.0.1:8118 is the privoxy address. this is what stunnel writes: LOG5[main]: Configuration successful LOG5[0]: Service [Tunnel_in] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:3261 LOG5[0]: s_connect: connected 127.0.0.1:8118 LOG5[0]: Service [Tunnel_in] connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:3262 and the browser infinitely loads, and never loads anything or leaves the page. if i remove the last 3 lines, its the same just with this line added: LOG4[main]: Service [Tunnel_in] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks but it doesnt give an error or anything. with a configuration like: [Tunnel_out] client = no accept = 127.0.0.1:443 connect = 127.0.0.1:8118 cert = stunnel.pem this is what it gives: LOG5[3]: Service [Tunnel_out] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:3294 LOG3[3]: SSL_accept: 1407609B: error:1407609B:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:https proxy request LOG5[3]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket and browser gives a server not found error immediately. im not even sure if i should use client or server configuration in a case like this, but none of them works anyway. all i would need is for my browser to get the pages decrypted, or at least in less than TLS1.1. like how on newipnow.com i can access sites with any encryption, since they are sent to the browser without encryption. the browser just gives an "unencrypted tunnel" warning, which is how i found stunnel, and which is exactly what i need, just locally.

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TPM based mutual tls authentication
by Nyiri, Gabor (Nokia - HU/Budapest) 07 Nov '23

07 Nov '23

Hi, Can you help me how to configure stunnel client to use TPM for mutual TLS authentication? I want to connect with mTLS to a remote server then make this connection available for localhost without mTLS. Thanks for your help in advance! Here is my configuration so far without TPM: debug = debug output = /tmp/stunnel.log foreground = yes [mtls_client] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:12019 sni = server-with-mtls.example.com checkHost = server-with-mtls.example.com connect = 1.2.3.4:443 verifyChain = yes CApath = /etc/ssl/certs/ cert = client.crt key = client.key Thanks & br, Gábor Nyíri,

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protocol = proxy with redirect
by Rob Hoes 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

Hi, I am using client certificate verification with the redirect option, so that the connection gets transferred to a separate socket in case the certificate is not accepted (rather than dropping the connection). This works well, unless I add the option “protocol = proxy” in order to get the client’s TCP params passed on. In this case, the redirect option seems to be ignored. Are the “redirect” and “protocol = proxy” options incompatible with one another? Is there an alternative? Thanks, Rob

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Minor bugfix: parameter type
by Peter Pentchev 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Hi, Thanks a lot for the continued development of stunnel! While checking whether my Debian packages can be built with the upcoming GCC 11, I found (or rather, GCC reported) a minor discrepancy in the type of the "hash" parameter to the crypt_DES() function in protocol.c. What do you think about the attached patch? It is also available at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/stunnel/-/blob/master/debian/patches/06-des… Thanks again, and keep up the great work! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam(a)ringlet.net roam(a)debian.org pp(a)storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13

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stunnel 60 released
by Michał Trojnara 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Dear Users, I have released version 5.60 of stunnel. ### Version 5.60, 2021.08.16, urgency: LOW * New features - New 'sessionResume' service-level option to allow or disallow session resumption - Added support for the new SSL_set_options() values. - Download fresh ca-certs.pem for each new release. * Bugfixes - Fixed 'redirect' with 'protocol'. This combination is not supported by 'smtp', 'pop3' and 'imap' protocols. - Enforced minimum WIN32 log window size. - Fixed support for password-protected private keys with OpenSSL 3.0 (thx to Dmitry Belyavskiy). Home page: https://www.stunnel.org/ Download: https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html SHA-256 hashes: c45d765b1521861fea9b03b425b9dd7d48b3055128c0aec673bba5ef9b8f787d stunnel-5.60.tar.gz 190b79cb94a4f70f362e44c32d150edf8ae660734d3fa0cbd990c3821e8f3083 stunnel-5.60-win64-installer.exe bac9bb4503cc5091d78c9deb6aa013fc07e39d67db0dfcc073b098db52f54427 stunnel-5.60-android.zip Best regards, Mike

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Is it possible to tunnel all tcp sessions of docker containers
by Yichun Ding 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

Hi, We are looking for the possibility to encrypt all the tcp sessions of containers between hosts with stunnel. So far I had no luck to come up with an iptables rule to route the packets to stunnel running on the host. We cannot change the container code as there are too many of them. Any advice would be appreciated! -yd

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stunnel ignores chroot /etc/hosts
by kmx1818＠gmail.com 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hello all! On my localhost I've got a java 1.4 tls1.0 app/service running, which is hard-coded to http-call a soap service (tls1.0 level too) running on a remote host, say, svchost. Host resolution is "files" only (ie /etc/hosts) - no dns. The aim is to make this java client tls1.2-compliant. My solution is: 1/ configure svchost to be (an alias of) localhost - in global /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost svchost 2/ configure a chroot env for stunell with its own /etc/hosts 1.2.3.4 svchost (needless to say that to make it work I had to copy /etc's nsswitch.conf resolv.conf, a bunch of libraries, esp libnsl and nsl_files etc, and create another lot of /dev entries) I've tested it with the native getent command: $ getent hosts svchost 127.0.0.1 $ chroot /var/run/stunnel/chroot getent hosts svchost 1.2.3.4 3/ run stunnel in chroot mode: # /opt/csw/bin/stunnel -version stunnel 5.59 on sparc-sun-solaris2.10 platform Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.2u 20 Dec 2019 ; for tls1 clients client = yes sslVersion = TLSv1.2 delay = yes chroot = /var/run/stunnel/chroot [tls12] accept = localhost:80 connect = svchost:443 ; Alas, stunnel still resolves svchost from the global /etc/hosts - not from chroot's!: $ curl -kL http://svchost/service curl: (52) Empty reply from server ...and in /var/adm/messages: …LOG[4]: Service [tls12] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:47944 …LOG[4]: s_connect: connecting 127.0.0.1:443 …LOG[4]: s_connect: s_poll_wait 127.0.0.1:443: waiting 10 seconds …LOG[4]: s_connect: connect 127.0.0.1:443: Connection refused (146) …LOG[4]: No more addresses to connect I've tried foreground yes/no, truss/strace - nothing useful... What am I missing!? Thank you in advance!

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