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Re: stunnel log file fills up with errors very fast
by Alan M Varghese (Nokia) 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

After digging into this a bit further, I was able to confirm that these "retries" are not created by stunnel itself. Rather, stunnel is simply trying to forward the connection attempts from NFS. Changing the NFS mount's "timeo" and "retrans" parameters affects duration for which NFS attempts to connect to the server. Thanks, Alan M Varghese

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stunnel log file fills up with errors very fast
by Alan M Varghese (Nokia) 19 Jan '25

19 Jan '25

Hello stunnel users, With stunnel (version: 5.71) setup and running (used to secure NFSv4 mounts), when the network interface is brought down, a huge number of messages are written to the log file (configured with the "output" option) in a very short amount of time. Below are some sample logs: 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG5[1044766]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG5[1044767]: Service [xxxxx] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:994 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG3[1044767]: s_connect: connect 192.168.x.xx:xxxx: Network is unreachable (101) 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG3[1044767]: No more addresses to connect 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG5[1044767]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG5[1044768]: Service [xxxxx] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:994 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG3[1044768]: s_connect: connect 192.168.x.xx:xxxx: Network is unreachable (101) 2025.01.19 14:19:58 LOG3[1044768]: No more addresses to connect ... This causes the log size to grow very quickly, sometimes overwhelming the filesystem. Log rotation alleviates this issue to some extent. But still, the archived logs would be filled with duplicate logs. This issue has been discussed by another user in the following thread: https://www.stunnel.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/stunnel-users@stunnel.org/… (Note, while the user in the thread above received "Connection refused" messages, here the error is "Network is unreachable". Otherwise, the behaviour with respect to logs is the same.) We would like to know if there is a way to control this connection behaviour from stunnel when "Network is unreachable" in such a manner. If not, is there a way to control/limit the log output from stunnel (without reducing the log level from default)? Steps to reproduce the issue: 1. Mount an NFSv4 filesystem using stunnel (configured to output logs to a file) 2. Bring down the network interfaces such that stunnel is not able to reach the configured server. (Please make sure to not lose access to the server while doing this.) 3. Wait ~300 seconds 4. Bring the interface(s) back up. 5. Examine the log size and contents. Thanks, Alan M Varghese

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Issue with OCSP messages in stunnel 5.73 and above
by Alexander Moisseev 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Hello, I am experiencing an issue with stunnel versions 5.73 and above where the server logs are continuously filled with the following message: "OCSP: SSL_get_certificate" This issue does not occur in version 5.72. I am using PSK for encryption and have not configured OCSP. Here are the details of my setup: [.] stunnel 5.74 on amd64-portbld-freebsd14.1 platform [.] Compiled with OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024 [.] Running with OpenSSL 3.0.15 3 Sep 2024 - Server configuration file: ``` setuid = stunnel setgid = nogroup pid = /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid [bayes] accept = 6478 connect = 6378 ciphers = PSK PSKsecrets = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/psk.txt cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/cert.pem key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/private.key [fuzzy] accept = 6477 connect = 6377 ciphers = PSK PSKsecrets = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/psk.txt cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/cert.pem key = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/private.key ``` - Client configuration file: ``` setuid = stunnel setgid = nogroup pid = /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid [bayes] client = yes accept = localhost:6478 connect = host.example.org:6478 ciphers = PSK PSKsecrets = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/psk.txt [fuzzy] client = yes accept = localhost:6477 connect = host.example.org:6477 ciphers = PSK PSKsecrets = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/psk.txt ``` - Relevant log entries: ``` Dec 27 09:00:10 mx stunnel[22113]: LOG3[per-minute]: OCSP: SSL_get_certificate ``` As a temporary workaround, I generated a self-signed certificate and configured stunnel to use it. This has resolved the issue with OCSP messages. However, I believe this is not the intended behavior when using PSK without configuring OCSP. I would appreciate any help or guidance on how to properly configure stunnel to avoid this issue without requiring a self-signed certificate. Thank you, Alexander

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STUNNEL Installation to Windows Failover Cluster
by John Pipolo 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Hi Is there any documentation or how to on installing STUNNEL to a 2 node Windows failover cluster? thx

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[Bug][5.73] stunnel segfault and coredump due to OCSP handling
by stunnel＠benary.org 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

Hi everyone, I've recently upgraded from NixOS 24.05 to 24.11 which went from stunnel 5.72 to 5.73 and have since had stunnel crash on me multiple times on different servers (pretty much identical setup however) due to what looks like a memory allocation race? Since 5.73 moved OCSP fetches to a thread, and the problem hasn't ever happened with 5.72 it sounds like an issue specific to that. Someone familiar with the codebase probably has a better idea of what's going on. Given that my updates happened somewhen mid last month and there have been no certificate renewals since (except for one that wouldn't affect the systems that were affected, thanks so much to crt.sh and CT existing) the error message of "OCSP routines::status expired" also seems out of place at least for the certificate itself (the staple may be expired, but stunnel should probably get a new one in that case which may have to do with the error in question). ``` Dec 06 04:43:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: LOG5[per-minute]: OCSP: Certificate accepted Dec 06 04:43:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: 2024.12.06 04:43:02 LOG5[per-minute]: OCSP: Certificate accepted Dec 06 04:43:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: LOG5[per-minute]: OCSP: Certificate accepted Dec 06 04:43:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: 2024.12.06 04:43:02 LOG5[per-minute]: OCSP: Certificate accepted Dec 06 04:43:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: LOG5[per-minute]: OCSP: Certificate accepted Dec 06 04:43:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: 2024.12.06 04:43:02 LOG5[per-minute]: OCSP: Certificate accepted Dec 06 04:43:56 shell stunnel[1124111]: LOG5[ui]: Log file reopened Dec 06 04:43:56 shell stunnel[1124111]: 2024.12.06 04:43:56 LOG5[ui]: Log file reopened Dec 06 04:44:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: LOG3[per-minute]: OCSP: OCSP_check_validity: crypto/ocsp/ocsp_cl.c:351: error:1380007D:OCSP routines::status expired Dec 06 04:44:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: 2024.12.06 04:44:02 LOG3[per-minute]: OCSP: OCSP_check_validity: crypto/ocsp/ocsp_cl.c:351: error:1380007D:OCSP routines::status expired Dec 06 04:44:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: 2024.12.06 04:44:02 LOG4[per-minute]: OCSP: Unknown verification status Dec 06 04:44:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: INTERNAL ERROR: Memory allocated in a different thread at ocsp.c, line 412 Dec 06 04:44:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: LOG4[per-minute]: OCSP: Unknown verification status Dec 06 04:44:02 shell stunnel[1124111]: INTERNAL ERROR: Memory allocated in a different thread at ocsp.c, line 412 Dec 06 04:44:02 shell systemd-coredump[282485]: Process 1124111 (stunnel) of user 988 terminated abnormally with signal 6/ABRT, processing... Dec 06 04:44:02 shell systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 282485/UID 0). Dec 06 04:44:02 shell systemd-coredump[282486]: [🡕] Process 1124111 (stunnel) of user 988 dumped core. Module libgcc_s.so.1 without build-id. Module libcap.so.2 without build-id. Module stunnel without build-id. Stack trace of thread 1124120: #0 0x00007f9191c99a9c __pthread_kill_implementation (libc.so.6 + 0x92a9c) #1 0x00007f9191c47576 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x40576) #2 0x00007f9191c2f935 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x28935) #3 0x000056142e23e435 fatal_debug.cold (stunnel + 0xc435) #4 0x000056142e23eebc get_alloc_list_ptr (stunnel + 0xcebc) #5 0x000056142e23f0b9 str_detach_debug.part.0 (stunnel + 0xd0b9) #6 0x000056142e23f856 str_free_debug (stunnel + 0xd856) #7 0x000056142e259635 ocsp_stapling (stunnel + 0x27635) #8 0x000056142e25a18f per_minute_thread (stunnel + 0x2818f) #9 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #10 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) Stack trace of thread 676245: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e241f82 client_run (stunnel + 0xff82) #3 0x000056142e2438fc client_thread (stunnel + 0x118fc) #4 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #5 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) Stack trace of thread 1124111: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e25b5f6 daemon_loop (stunnel + 0x295f6) #3 0x000056142e23e680 main (stunnel + 0xc680) #4 0x00007f9191c3127e __libc_start_call_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2a27e) #5 0x00007f9191c31339 __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (libc.so.6 + 0x2a339) #6 0x000056142e23e875 _start (stunnel + 0xc875) Stack trace of thread 1124119: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e250acd s_poll_sleep (stunnel + 0x1eacd) #3 0x000056142e25a21c per_second_thread (stunnel + 0x2821c) #4 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #5 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) Stack trace of thread 676190: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e241f82 client_run (stunnel + 0xff82) #3 0x000056142e2438fc client_thread (stunnel + 0x118fc) #4 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #5 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) Stack trace of thread 1124121: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e250acd s_poll_sleep (stunnel + 0x1eacd) #3 0x000056142e259fab per_day_thread (stunnel + 0x27fab) #4 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #5 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) Stack trace of thread 676445: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e241f82 client_run (stunnel + 0xff82) #3 0x000056142e2438fc client_thread (stunnel + 0x118fc) #4 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #5 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) Stack trace of thread 676300: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e241f82 client_run (stunnel + 0xff82) #3 0x000056142e2438fc client_thread (stunnel + 0x118fc) #4 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #5 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) Stack trace of thread 676491: #0 0x00007f9191d090af __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x1020af) #1 0x000056142e2509f1 s_poll_wait (stunnel + 0x1e9f1) #2 0x000056142e241f82 client_run (stunnel + 0xff82) #3 0x000056142e2438fc client_thread (stunnel + 0x118fc) #4 0x00007f9191c97d02 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x90d02) #5 0x00007f9191d173ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x1103ac) ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64 Dec 06 04:44:02 shell systemd[1]: stunnel.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT Dec 06 04:44:02 shell systemd[1]: stunnel.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. Dec 06 04:44:02 shell systemd[1]: stunnel.service: Consumed 2min 11.812s CPU time, 21.6M memory peak, 19.6M memory swap peak, 50.9M read from disk, 47.1M written to disk, 587.2M incoming IP traffic, 588.8M outgoing IP traffic. ``` Note that stunnel is handling mTLS for my prometheus, which means that it is indeed getting hammered by one scrape per exporter at a time, which in this case would make exactly five scrapes per minute but all of them happening at the same time, which, if this is a race, does make me a lot more likely to hit this issue. Also a huge Thank You for building what has been an integral part of my infrastructure for almost a decade now.

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stunnel 5.74 released
by Michał Trojnara 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Dear Users, I have released version 5.74 of stunnel. ### Version 5.74, 2024.12.13, urgency: HIGH * Bugfixes - Fixed a stapling cache deallocation crash. - Fixed "redirect" with protocol negotiation. * Features - "protocolHost" support for "socks" protocol clients. - More detailed logs in OpenSSL 3.0 or later. Home page: https://www.stunnel.org/ Download: https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html SHA-256 hashes: 9bef235ab5d24a2a8dff6485dfd782ed235f4407e9bc8716deb383fc80cd6230 stunnel-5.74.tar.gz 8ce19cc782a64b0cacf32356249265ed16b3888e3578454853f5497726778d76 stunnel-5.74-win64-installer.exe 68c3395c1bebcc8b4eee2c7f58190aa2fe39b835dd7a4cce5ad37d5dfc1c5542 stunnel-5.74-android.zip Best regards, Mike

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Stunnel on a windwos 11 pro installation not working
by ron.reijgwart＠gmail.com 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

I'm trying to use Stunnel on a windwos 11 pro installation. I tried version 5.56, 5.73 and 5.74b1. On my old pc all was working fine but now I get the following errors: [ ] Initializing inetd mode configuration [ ] Running on Windows 6.2 [ ] No limit detected for the number of clients [.] stunnel 5.73 on x64-pc-mingw32-gnu platform [.] Compiled/running with OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024 [.] Threading:WIN32 Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI [ ] errno: (*_errno()) [ ] Initializing inetd mode configuration [ ] Running on Windows 6.2 [.] Reading configuration from file C:\Program Files (x86)\stunnel\config\stunnel.conf [.] UTF-8 byte order mark detected [.] FIPS mode disabled [ ] Compression disabled [ ] No PRNG seeding was required [ ] Initializing service [ssmtp] [ ] Initializing context [ssmtp] [ ] OpenSSL security level is used: 2 [ ] Ciphers: HIGH:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!DH:!kDHEPSK [ ] TLSv1.3 ciphersuites: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 [ ] TLS options: 0x2100000 (+0x0, -0x0) [ ] Session resumption enabled [ ] Loading certificate from file: C:\Program Files (x64)\stunnel\config\stunnel.pem [!] error queue: ssl/ssl_rsa.c:472: error:0A080002:SSL routines::system lib [!] error queue: crypto/bio/bss_file.c:300: error:10080002:BIO routines::system lib [!] SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: crypto/bio/bss_file.c:297: error:80000003:system library::No such process [!] Service [ssmtp]: Failed to initialize TLS context [!] Configuration failed [ ] Deallocating temporary section defaults [ ] Cleaning up context [(null)] [ ] Deallocating section [ssmtp] [ ] Cleaning up context [ssmtp] On a windows 10 Education installation it works fine with this logging: 2024.12.05 13:38:58 LOG5[service]: Reading configuration from file C:\Program Files (x86)\stunnel\config\stunnel.conf 2024.12.05 13:38:58 LOG5[service]: UTF-8 byte order mark detected 2024.12.05 13:38:58 LOG5[service]: FIPS mode disabled 2024.12.05 13:38:58 LOG4[service]: Service [ssmtp] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks 2024.12.05 13:38:58 LOG5[service]: Configuration successful My conf-file looks like this: ;use it for client mode client = yes [ssmtp] accept = 1925 cert = C:\Program Files (x64)\stunnel\config\stunnel.pem connect = smtp.bhosted.nl:465 Can you please give me some advice?

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Is it possible for stunnel to reject client connections if the server end cannot connect?
by mohmmad170720＠gmail.com 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Hi all Say we have two machines set up, ClientPC and ServerPC. On ClientPC I run stunnel accepting a connection on a local port and connecting to an stunnel port on ServerPC. On ServerPC I run stunnel accepting a connection on the local stunnel port and connecting to the 'encryption unaware' server on another port on the same ServerPC machine. OK, pretty simple stuff so far. The problem is, when I connect to ClientPC with the 'encryption unaware' client app. then I always get a successful connection, even if there is no server running on ServerPC. Of course once the client has a successful connection, it then performs a write(), and that fails with 'Connection reset by peer'. Really, since there is no server running on ServerPC, I want the connect() to stunnel on ClientPC to fail. Is there a way to do this?

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Router + Cudy mesh system
by trashrap22＠gmail.com 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Hi, My stunnel setup was working. I since moved and had to add a Cudy mesh system / extension to the router to extend the internet through the building. Now I can't get stunnel to work again - I have done port forwarding on the Cudy system too. Has anyone done this extentions of router setup and got stunnel to work?

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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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