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stunnel 5.47 released
by Michal Trojnara 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Dear Users, I have released version 5.47 of stunnel. Version 5.47, 2018.06.23, urgency: HIGH * New features - Fast add_lock_callback for OpenSSL < 1.1.0. This largely improves performance on heavy load. - Automatic detection of Homebrew OpenSSL. - Clarified port binding error logs. - Various "make test" improvements. * Bugfixes - Fixed a crash on switching to SNI slave sections. Home page: https://www.stunnel.org/ Download: https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html SHA-256 hashes: c4e675db996eb92beef885f72a3ed8af3c7603fea6b99d2873198dd6c0021d0b stunnel-5.47.tar.gz 985e1d65a3f4a7599cc78630960e1b2c97981f91ce6bc41f2eefcd371b4067a3 stunnel-5.47-win32-installer.exe 309cfb79329448f0c134aece0d10d0737e3728b25c288e9a76650837cd6f839c stunnel-5.47-android.zip Best regards, Mike

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Stunnel 5.45 and 5.46 crashes upon reconnect HTTPS
by Javier 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Hi, isn't annoying when you are using an old version, 5.44, and all goes fine, you notice you are outdated and then comes the problems after update? :-P The thing is that yesterday I needed the HTTPS server so I run Stunnel 5.44 for my non-SSL app and all was fine. I updated to 5.46 just because I forgot the last time and didn't even run again because I didn't need it. Today I used it and... I had a crash. I tested 5.45 to trace versions back, and it crashes as well. Back to 5.44 and no crash. The crash happens when there is a reload/reconnect/multiconnect (example, 2 connections html+images) by the browser when connects to an HTTPS server. It only happens when using a SNI service. I've been able to trace back the log on those versions and when fails in 5.45 and 5.46 is at the time when it needs to switch to the SNI service. (log from 5.44) SNI: requested servername: xxx SNI: matched pattern: xxx SNI: switched to service [xxx] <<<<----- BEFORE SWITCH, IT CRASHES on 5.45 and 5.46 Imagine you load https://xxx/. The first time is fine, the second, crashes stunnel. Not happening with 5.44. I haven't seen any change to SNI in manual so... :-? These are the configs for the used virtual servers. Nothing has been changed, anyway: [SSL] client = no accept = y.y.y.1:4747 connect = y.y.y.2:443 [SSL-xxx-SNI] client = no sni = SSL:xxx connect = y.y.y.2:443 cert = pem key = pem Don't mind the port numbers. They aren't in conflict. Running on Windows 2000. Regards.

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Reg : Stunnel + RSYNC Usage with TLSv1.2
by Sakthivel Ganesamoorthy 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi, I have configured a server and client for Stunnel + Rsync usage over TLSv1.2. It is working fine, but I wanted to verify the "Cipher Key" exchange mechanism between "Server & Client" via "Wireshark". When I captured the logs via "Wireshark", it shows everything as TCP messages and I don't see any "Client Hello message (or) Cipher Key exchange message (or) any of the TLSv1.2" handshake messages. Please let me know whether I'm missing something here. Thanks, Sakthi

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stunnel used as jump host for SFTP
by Schultz, Cecilia 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hello, I am trying to test stunnel to see if it can provide the functionality we need. We are a Windows shop. What we need is for multiple client machines (I call these C1, C2, C3) to connect to our server (S). Server S will connect to a remote SFTP server (port 22). I call the remote SFTP server "R". C1, C2, C3 and S are all inside our firewall. Currently S can connect and send files to R using SFTP (port 22). The problem is that R does not accept a range of IP addresses, and has a limit on the number of IP addresses they can accept. So, what I need is for C1, C2, C3 to be able to connect to server R using S as a jump host. >From R's perspective, it should be like the connection is coming from S. Question 1: can stunnel be used to accomplish this? Question 2: I have installed stunnel in a test server ("stunnel -install" actually from the bin folder), and configured the conf like this: [sftp] accept=127.0.0.1:22 connect=some.remote.server.com:22 I tried to use Winscp SFTP client to test a connection, but it times out. I then checked S, and I don't see anything listening on port 22. I did "netstat -a" and I don't see anything listening on port 22. Was something wrong in the "stunnel -install" command? Shouldn't it be listening on port 22? Also, I uncommented the entry for log, but I don't see any log file in the stunnel folder/subfolders ; Debugging stuff (may be useful for troubleshooting) debug = info output = stunnel.log Thanks for your help, Cecilia

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Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel used as jump host for SFTP
by Schultz, Cecilia 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Thank you so much for the info! I will try this out. From: stunnel-users <stunnel-users-bounces(a)stunnel.org> On Behalf Of Harris, Douglas (SSC/SPC) Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 5:08 AM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] stunnel used as jump host for SFTP You can accomplish this in Windows. Just add a port forwarding rule to S: netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=22 listenaddress=[IP of S] connectport=22 connectaddress=[IP of R] -Doug

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stunnel PSK support via custome openssl engine
by Tarakeshwar Rao 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Dear Stunnel-users, >From Stunnel man pages, I could see that we could read PSK secret from plain text file with following option: PSKsecrets = psk.txt Could it possible to use custom openssl engine to read PSK file from HSM. I know that this works for reading TLS keys. I am not sure how I could do it for PSK. Thanks for your support, Regards, Tarak

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is it possible to make stunnel works for dbmail timsieved?
by cktmwe＠gmail.com 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

hello everyone, I'm currently try to stunnel sieve traffic to local dbmail timsieved, unfortunately I couldn't get it to work, my first question, does stunnel support sieve manage protocol? secondly if it does, how can I config the service? what I've done so far. timsieved started on 127.0.0.1:2000, connect and manage all works, I saw connection in dbmail log, then define sieve service block in stunnel.conf, restart stunnel, but if I connect our.public.ip:4190, timsieved becames no connection at all, dbmail log kept silent. traffic from port 4190 is already accepted in iptables. config that I used. > [sieve] > accept = our.public.ip:4190 > connect = 127.0.0.1:2000 > software version: stunnel-5.43 dbmail-3.2.3 Thanks.

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Slow DNS lookups when DNS does not respond
by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Hi all, I have stunnel setup on a Linux box and I am experiencing very slow DNS lookup times when DNS does not respond. On this same system, anything that results in a DNS lookup (e.g. ping, ...) takes about 20 seconds before it times out and fails. However with stunnel (and a single service configured) the lookup takes more than 1 minute (approx 80 seconds). Is there any way to configure this? Thank you, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia guille.rodriguez(a)gmail.com

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Windows 2016 Server: [!] bind: Address already in use (WSAEADDRINUSE) (10048)
by Martin Schweizer 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Hello List My problem: If I run stunnel I regular get the below error: [.] stunnel 5.46 on x86-pc-msvc-1500 platform [.] Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.2o-fips 27 Mar 2018 [.] Threading:WIN32 Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI [ ] errno: (*_errno()) [ ] Running on Windows 6.2 [.] Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf [.] UTF-8 byte order mark detected [.] FIPS mode disabled [ ] Compression disabled [ ] No PRNG seeding was required [ ] Initializing service [smtps] [ ] GUI message loop initialized [ ] Ciphers: HIGH:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!DH:!kDHEPSK [ ] TLS options: 0x03000004 (+0x00000000, -0x00000000) [ ] Loading certificate from file: stunnel.pem [ ] Certificate loaded from file: stunnel.pem [ ] Loading private key from file: stunnel.pem [ ] Private key loaded from file: stunnel.pem [ ] Private key check succeeded [:] Service [smtps] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks [.] Configuration successful [ ] Binding service [smtps] [ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=676) [ ] Setting accept socket options (FD=676) [ ] Option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE set on accept socket >>> [!] bind: Address already in use (WSAEADDRINUSE) (10048) <<<< [!] Error binding service [smtps] to 192.168.10.62:11465 [!] Could not bind any accepting port [ ] Deallocating section defaults [ ] Unbinding service [smtps] [ ] Service [smtps] closed [ ] Deallocating section [smtps] I had the same problem with the previous versions aswell. To temporary resolv the problem I have to change the listen port to another number. Reread the config file and let the stunnel GUI open. Then all is working until I close the GUI (not each time but most of). My system: - Windows 2016 Server - stunnel-5.46 - stunnel installed as service and GUI My config file (relevant part): taskbar = yes client=yes [smtps] ;delay = yes accept = 192.168.10.62:11466 connect = server.domain.ch:465 cert = stunnel.pem local = 192.168.10.53 (this is dedicated address) I found a similar threat in the archives (but on Linux): https://www.stunnel.org/pipermail/stunnel-users/2018-February/005935.html Here is Microsoft's describtion about WSAEADDRINUSE) (10048): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740668(v=vs.85).… All helps are welcome. Kind regards, -- Martin Schweizer PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; Postfach 132; CH-8608 Bubikon; Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22

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port-only accept value binds to 127.0.0.1, instead of the wildcard address
by Poor Yorick 30 May '18

30 May '18

The stunnel 6.45 documentation for "accept" states, "If no host specified, defaults to all IPv4 addresses for the local host." In this case, stunnel actually binds to 127.0.0.1. Indeed, inspection of the relevant code paths reveals that addr_list->passive is never set to 1 in this case. To get stunnel to bind to all addresses, 0.0.0.0 must be explicitly specified. Furthermore, inspection of the code path for the "local" option reveals that addr_list->passive is set to 1 in this case, which seems to be backwards: The documentation for getaddrinfo states that AI_PASSIVE is ignored in this case. The logic for these two cases seems to be reversed. -- Yorick

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