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Stunnel 4.09 exits unexpected on solaris 2.8
by edonald1＠rochester.rr.com 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hi, I am running the following version of Stunnel: ./stunnel -version stunnel 4.09 on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 PTHREAD+POLL+IPv4 with OpenSSL 0.9.6m 17 Mar 2004 Global options cert = /apps/stunnel/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+SSLv2:@STRENGTH debug = 5 key = /apps/stunnel/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem pid = /apps/stunnel/var/run/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes session = 300 seconds verify = none Service-level options TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds It is compiled with pthreads and without TCPwrappers. I am using it to tunnel a mod_jk connection between apache and tomcat. It works perfectly in my Development and QA environment ( runs for weeks on end). When I moved it to production it started not to work so well. Stunnel would mysterious stop working on the server side (procesd disappears). There are no errors in the log whatsoever and the log level is set at 7. One difference in my production environment is that there are multiple clients (apache) and one server (tomcat). All Thoughts are welcome. Thank You

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Errors sending email thru gmail's smtp server
by Melinda Chin 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hi, I have written an email client application to send/receive email. However, gmail accounts requires that email clients use SSL. In order to do this, I am running stunnel in the background. I am able to retrieve emails from gmail pop3 server, but I am not able To send email thru gmail smtp server. Gmail requires that email clients Support SMTP authentication, and also requires TLS. I am receiving the following errors in stunnel.log when trying to send email from gmail accounts. Attached is my stunnel.conf file. Is there something I am missing to cause these errors ? Does stunnel support SMTP authentication ? - Melinda 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: <- 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS. 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: waitforsocket: FD=13, DIR=read 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: waitforsocket: ok 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server done A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client key exchange A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: waitforsocket: FD=13, DIR=read 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: waitforsocket: ok 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 5 items in the session cache 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 5 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 5 client connects that finished 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 0 client renegotiatations requested 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 0 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 0 server connects that finished 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 0 server renegotiatiations requested 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 0 session cache hits 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 0 session cache misses 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG7[25398:81923]: 0 session cache timeouts 2005.06.27 11:26:17 LOG6[25398:81923]: Negotiated ciphers: DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 2005.06.27 11:26:18 LOG7[25398:81923]: Socket closed on read 2005.06.27 11:26:18 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL alert (write): warning: close notify 2005.06.27 11:26:18 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL write shutdown (output buffer empty) 2005.06.27 11:26:19 LOG7[25398:81923]: SSL socket closed on SSL_read 2005.06.27 11:26:19 LOG5[25398:81923]: Connection closed: 59 bytes sent to SSL, 165 bytes sent to socket 2005.06.27 11:26:19 LOG7[25398:81923]: ssmtp finished (1 left)

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Passphrase validation
by Peter Pentes 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hi, As I understand it, Stunnel does not currently support the validation of certificate passphrases. For example, to make a connection from the client to the server, no passphrase is requested when a certificate is selected. Are there any plans for this feature to be added to Stunnel? Regards, PP __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Have extra bandwidth. does stunnel need a mirror?
by christopher＠baus.net 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

I have extra bandwidth. Does stunnel need a mirror? I'm using stunnel exclusively for my SSL needs. I works great, and I just want to give back. Christopher Baus

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Re: [stunnel-users] Passphrase validation
by Paul Jones 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

That's all well and good for a Unix environment, but what about on Windows? No chown or chmod on there! I believe that it is sometimes useful for the passphrase to be requested by Stunnel on startup (on the client side), but you all make valid points. Paul. --- Vasil Dimov <vd(a)datamax.bg> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:30:56PM -0700, Joseph >Mocker wrote: > > > It depends on how the machine were broken. >Presumably if you > > were that hell-bent on using passprhases on >private keys, you'd > > likely isolate stunnel to run as an unpriviledged >user in a chrooted >That is a good idea anyway :) > > > environment, and you may very well set the >coredump size to zero > > and remove a debugger all together. So unless the >user was able > > to break root, the effects of the break-in might >be minimized. > >Private key stealing table: >* the key and the plain text file, holding the >password (if any) > should always be chown root and chmod 400 >* stunnel is the (unprivileged) user stunnel is >running as >* we assume that stunnel is running at the time of >breakage, because > this is the worst case. > > key storage \ break as root stunnel other user >- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >1. unencrypted key YES YES NO > >2. crypted key/password in text file YES YES NO > >3. crypted key/password entered at startup YES YES NO >- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >As we see there is no difference if the private key >will be kept >crypted or unencrypted with or without text file >holding the passphrase. > >What happens if the stunnel daemon is not running >during the breakage? >Note that this is an optimistic suggestion and we >should not rely on it. > > key storage \ break as root stunnel other user >- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >1. unencrypted key YES NO NO > >2. crypted key/password in text file YES NO NO > >3. crypted key/password entered at startup NO > NO NO >- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >So the only difference in all cases is if stunnel is >not running and the >hacker gets root on the machine and the key is >crypted and the password >is entered at startup - then it will not be possible >to steal the >private key. > >As a conclusion, it is obviously - that there is >really no sense to >keep the password in a text file and it makes a >LITTLE sense if the >password is entered at startup - in just one, rare, >case this setup >will save the private key. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >iD8DBQFCunHRFw6SP/bBpCARAtN4AJ0TBfANXVyyLNKojIaFzb1E/7WBqQCeIcop >rAqsbhJmK9oBYg/Rb9iJzSE= >=rFAJ >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >stunnel-users mailing list >stunnel-users(a)mirt.net >http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users > _________________________________________________________________ Sell your car for $9 on carpoint.com.au http://www.carpoint.com.au/sellyourcar

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4.10 runtime crash (alignment error?) in Solaris 7
by Old Wolf 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

When I run stunnel 4.10 with openssl 0.9.8 beta4 in Solaris 7, it crashes just after a connection is established. Nothing appears in the stunnel log. If I run it in foreground mode, "Bus Error" appears on the console. Running with 'truss -f', I see the output that follows. Gdb reveals nothing (it's not compiled for debug and I"m not sure how to change that). so_socket(2, 2, 0, "", 1) = 9 fcntl(9, F_GETFL, 0x00000000) = 2 fstat64(9, 0x001686B8) = 0 getsockopt(9, 65535, 8192, 0x001687B8, 0x001687B0, 0) = 0 fstat64(9, 0x001686B8) = 0 getsockopt(9, 65535, 8192, 0x001687B8, 0x001687B4, 0) = 0 setsockopt(9, 65535, 8192, 0x001687B8, 4, 0) = 0 fcntl(9, F_SETFL, 0x00000082) = 0 time() = 1118632479 getpid() = 25472 [25471] write(3, " 2 0 0 5 . 0 6 . 1 3 1".., 61) = 61 time() = 1118632479 getpid() = 25472 [25471] write(3, " 2 0 0 5 . 0 6 . 1 3 1".., 78) = 78 connect(9, 0x00168998, 16, 1) = 0 time() = 1118632479 getpid() = 25472 [25471] write(3, " 2 0 0 5 . 0 6 . 1 3 1".., 59) = 59 Incurred fault #5, FLTACCESS %pc = 0x00031720 siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x0002CDE9 Received signal #10, SIGBUS [default] siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x0002CDE9 *** process killed *** The stunnel options are: stunnel 4.10 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7 UCONTEXT+POLL+IPv4 with OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta4 06 Jun 2005 Global options cert = /u/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem ciphers = ALL:!ADH:+RC4:@STRENGTH debug = 5 key = /u/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem pid = /u/var/run/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDoverwrite = yes session = 300 seconds verify = none Service-level options TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds Also, I had some warnings errors during compilation , which should be fixed (compiling with gcc 3.4.1 in pedantic mode). (None of them are the cause of the crash though, as I hacked up some fixes and the crash still happened). log.c: In function `s_log': log.c:134: warning: implicit declaration of function `localtime_r' log.c:134: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast The culprit here is that config.h defines HAVE_LOCALTIME_R, but when the system header with that function is included, the #defines are set up so that localtime_r is NOT defined. (I guess this is an autoconf problem). The code links successfully but I'm not sure how reliable it will be, since localtime_r was not declared properly. options.c and network: there were many uses of isspace() with a (signed) char value, this is incorrect (isspace requires an unsigned char value -- it could fail if it gets a negative number). However many C libraries (eg. glibc) work with negative values anyway, although I have used compilers that don't. resolver.c has some cases of potential alignment errors, but I guess they aren't a problem in this case.

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Compile stunnel 4.10 using VC7(aka Visual Studio 2003)
by Han Jun Li 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Stunnel 4.10 does not compile with Visual Studio 7. After spending the past few days to get it to compile, I thought someone might find this useful. There is a change to the common.h that you need to hack. Basically, you need to include <winsock2.h> and <ws2tcpip.h> before <windows.h> to make it compile without any warning. The content of the make file(stunnel.mak) is below: !IF "$(CFG)" == "" CFG=stunnel - Release !MESSAGE No configuration specified. Defaulting to "stunnel - Release" !ENDIF !IF "$(CFG)" != "stunnel - Release" !MESSAGE Invalid configuration "$(CFG)" specified. !MESSAGE You can specify a configuration when running NMAKE !MESSAGE by defining the macro CFG on the command line. For example: !MESSAGE !MESSAGE NMAKE /f "stunnel.mak" CFG="stunnel - Release" !MESSAGE !MESSAGE Possible choices for configuration are: !MESSAGE !MESSAGE "stunnel Release" (based on "Win32 (x86) Console Application") !MESSAGE !ERROR An invalid configuration is specified. !ENDIF !IF "$(OS)" == "Windows_NT" NULL= !ELSE NULL=nul !ENDIF CPP=cl.exe RSC=rc.exe !IF "$(CFG)" == "stunnel - Release" OPENSSL=c:\openssl-0.9.7g !MESSAGE === OpenSSL is configured to be at $(OPENSSL) === OUTDIR=.\Release INTDIR=.\Release # Begin Custom Macros OutDir=.\Release # End Custom Macros ALL : "$(OUTDIR)\stunnel.exe" CLEAN : -@erase "$(INTDIR)\client.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\gui.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\log.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\network.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\options.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\protocol.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\resources.res" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\resolver.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\ssl.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\sthreads.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\stunnel.obj" -@erase "$(INTDIR)\vc60.idb" -@erase "$(OUTDIR)\stunnel.exe" "$(OUTDIR)" : if not exist "$(OUTDIR)/$(NULL)" mkdir "$(OUTDIR)" CPP_PROJ=/nologo /MT /W3 /G5 /O2 /I "$(OPENSSL)\inc32" /D "WIN32" /D "NDEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_MBCS" /D "USE_WIN32" /D "HAVE_OPENSSL" /D "HAVE_GETADDRINFO" /D "HAVE_GETNAMEINFO" /Fo"$(INTDIR)\\" /Fd"$(INTDIR)\\" /FD /c RSC_PROJ=/l 0x409 /fo"$(INTDIR)\resources.res" /d "NDEBUG" .c{$(INTDIR)}.obj:: $(CPP) @<< $(CPP_PROJ) $< << .cpp{$(INTDIR)}.obj:: $(CPP) @<< $(CPP_PROJ) $< << .cxx{$(INTDIR)}.obj:: $(CPP) @<< $(CPP_PROJ) $< << .c{$(INTDIR)}.sbr:: $(CPP) @<< $(CPP_PROJ) $< << .cpp{$(INTDIR)}.sbr:: $(CPP) @<< $(CPP_PROJ) $< << .cxx{$(INTDIR)}.sbr:: $(CPP) @<< $(CPP_PROJ) $< << BSC32=bscmake.exe BSC32_FLAGS=/nologo /o"$(OUTDIR)\stunnel.bsc" BSC32_SBRS= \ LINK32=link.exe LINK32_FLAGS=kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib wsock32.lib $(OPENSSL)\out32dll\ssleay32.lib $(OPENSSL)\out32dll\libeay32.lib /nologo /subsystem:windows /incremental:no /pdb:"$(OUTDIR)\stunnel.pdb" /machine:I386 /out:"$(OUTDIR)\stunnel.exe" LINK32_OBJS= \ "$(INTDIR)\stunnel.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\client.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\gui.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\log.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\network.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\options.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\protocol.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\resources.res" \ "$(INTDIR)\resolver.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\ssl.obj" \ "$(INTDIR)\sthreads.obj" "$(OUTDIR)\stunnel.exe" : "$(OUTDIR)" $(DEF_FILE) $(LINK32_OBJS) $(LINK32) @<< $(LINK32_FLAGS) $(LINK32_OBJS) << !ENDIF !IF "$(CFG)" == "stunnel - Release" || "$(CFG)" == "stunnel - Debug" SOURCE=.\client.c "$(INTDIR)\client.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\gui.c "$(INTDIR)\gui.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\log.c "$(INTDIR)\log.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\network.c "$(INTDIR)\network.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\options.c "$(INTDIR)\options.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\protocol.c "$(INTDIR)\protocol.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\resources.rc "$(INTDIR)\resources.res" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" $(RSC) $(RSC_PROJ) $(SOURCE) SOURCE=.\resolver.c "$(INTDIR)\resolver.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\ssl.c "$(INTDIR)\ssl.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\sthreads.c "$(INTDIR)\sthreads.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" SOURCE=.\stunnel.c "$(INTDIR)\stunnel.obj" : $(SOURCE) "$(INTDIR)" !ENDIF

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Certificate integrration
by Nadeem Mohiudeen 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Dear Members, I need to know the procedures to install a *.cer file into the format we using in stunnel.conf.actually lately we renewed a certificate from Verisign and they send a file which we save as test.cer .now I need to put this file into my format in stunnel.conf as follows key = /pbx_u01/apps/tomcat/current/conf/mnet-priv_nbk.pfx.pem cert = /pbx_u01/apps/tomcat/current/conf/mnet-priv_nbk.pfx.x509 since we are using tomcat as application server which is using stunnel as https port forwarder so advice the steps would be thanks at the earliest. Regards Nadeem

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Help
by Nadeem Mohiudeen 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Dear Members, I need to know the procedures to install a *.cer file into the format we using in stunnel.conf.actually lately we renewed a certificate from Verisign and they send a file which we save as test.cer .now I need to put this file into my format in stunnel.conf as follows key = /pbx_u01/apps/tomcat/current/conf/mnet-priv_nbk.pfx.pem cert = /pbx_u01/apps/tomcat/current/conf/mnet-priv_nbk.pfx.x509 since we are using tomcat as application server which is using stunnel as https port forwarder so advice the steps would be thanks at the earliest. Regards Nadeem

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Re: [stunnel-users] Passphrase validation
by Vasil Dimov 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:30:56PM -0700, Joseph Mocker wrote: > > It depends on how the machine were broken. Presumably if you > were that hell-bent on using passprhases on private keys, you'd > likely isolate stunnel to run as an unpriviledged user in a chrooted That is a good idea anyway :) > environment, and you may very well set the coredump size to zero > and remove a debugger all together. So unless the user was able > to break root, the effects of the break-in might be minimized. Private key stealing table: * the key and the plain text file, holding the password (if any) should always be chown root and chmod 400 * stunnel is the (unprivileged) user stunnel is running as * we assume that stunnel is running at the time of breakage, because this is the worst case. key storage \ break as root stunnel other user - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. unencrypted key YES YES NO 2. crypted key/password in text file YES YES NO 3. crypted key/password entered at startup YES YES NO - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As we see there is no difference if the private key will be kept crypted or unencrypted with or without text file holding the passphrase. What happens if the stunnel daemon is not running during the breakage? Note that this is an optimistic suggestion and we should not rely on it. key storage \ break as root stunnel other user - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. unencrypted key YES NO NO 2. crypted key/password in text file YES NO NO 3. crypted key/password entered at startup NO NO NO - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the only difference in all cases is if stunnel is not running and the hacker gets root on the machine and the key is crypted and the password is entered at startup - then it will not be possible to steal the private key. As a conclusion, it is obviously - that there is really no sense to keep the password in a text file and it makes a LITTLE sense if the password is entered at startup - in just one, rare, case this setup will save the private key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFCunHRFw6SP/bBpCARAtN4AJ0TBfANXVyyLNKojIaFzb1E/7WBqQCeIcop rAqsbhJmK9oBYg/Rb9iJzSE= =rFAJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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