October 2018 - stunnel-users

Re: [stunnel-users] CPU 100%
by Eric Eberhard 19 Oct '18

19 Oct '18

Somewhere there is a physical network card - checking the firewall/router for traffic is a good idea no matter what it is running on. VMs have lots of clever software to isolate each instance (including resources) and you may be being streamed at a rate the VM as whole can handle, and your isolated VM cannot. And setting the debug level up is still a good idea. And forcing core files and using a debugger is still a good idea. And trying inetd mode is still a good idea. You need to narrow your focus and each of these suggestions will tell you something that narrows the problem. Eric From: Murrey, Brian J. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 7:14 AM To: Eric Eberhard <flash(a)vicsmba.com>; stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: RE: [stunnel-users] CPU 100% Thank you Eric, this server is a VM running under vSphere 6.5 and has no physical network card. From: Eric Eberhard <flash(a)vicsmba.com <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 7:56 PM To: Murrey, Brian J. <Brian.Murrey(a)trimedx.com <mailto:[email protected]> >; stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [stunnel-users] CPU 100% 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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Murrey, Brian J. Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 10:57 AM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org <mailto:[email protected]> 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. 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Re: [stunnel-users] Windows stunnel Command Line Configuration File Location
by Eric Eberhard 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

If it reading from .\config . then I would try putting the path in quotes. If it fails to read the one in \temp but is not reading anything, I would check permissions on the directory and file (easy test is set "everyone" to full permissions, at least as a test). You have to do the entire directory tree (in the case of c:\temp it is just that directory) and the file. Eric From: stunnel-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 1:59 PM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: [stunnel-users] Windows stunnel Command Line Configuration File Location I would like to be able to run stunnel interactively on Windows, but specify a different location for the configuration file. When I looked at the help output, it stated that you could pass a parameter for "[<filename>]". I assumed I could put a path on there, but it does not appear to work. For example, I tried running "stunnel.exe C:\temp\stunnel.conf", but it would not find the configuration file even though it is there. Is there a way to do what I am trying to do or does the config file have to be in a folder "..\config"? Thanks.

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Re: [stunnel-users] CPU 100%
by Eric Eberhard 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

One other suggestion - run it in inetd mode. This is MUCH simpler, stunnel will not have to do as much forking and managing and so forth. The O/S will do all that. I know - it is a little less efficient. However, I have found on modern Centos and AIX computers that even with very high volumes it makes no measurable difference. If nothing else, it is another debugging technique. Especially if the runaway process is the parent process . because that does not exist under inetd mode. Eric From: stunnel-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Murrey, Brian J. Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:09 AM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] CPU 100% We have one service, connecting stunnel to another application. Relevant configuration: [vpn] client = no accept = 172.17.102.122:443 exec = /usr/sbin/ppp execargs = ppp -direct vpn pty = yes Brian From: Vincent Deschenes <vdeschenes(a)stelvio.com <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 2:05 PM To: Murrey, Brian J. <Brian.Murrey(a)trimedx.com <mailto:[email protected]> >; stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [stunnel-users] CPU 100% Just a silly idea, but is it possible you have a re-entrant configuration for one service, one that connect back to itself creating a loop? Vincent Deschenes Ing. PMP From: stunnel-users <stunnel-users-bounces(a)stunnel.org <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Murrey, Brian J. Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2018 1:57 PM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org <mailto:[email protected]> 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. _____ CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not open links or attachments you were not expecting, even from known senders, and use caution when responding. Please contact the Service Desk if in doubt regarding the legitimacy of this email. _____ 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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Re: [stunnel-users] CPU 100%
by Eric Eberhard 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Also a good idea. That would be found in the log ASAP certainly with a high debug level. Might fill the filesystem for the log if that is so :) Does FreeBSD support kill -9 (or is it 11?) that forces a core dump? If so, when you kill it and leave a core file, you can use the debugger on that core file and see what it is doing. Look at the stack trace. You may need several to catch the problem. If it is simply in a read() type state then the other machine is streaming you. If it is loop around you should see it in a different place in each core file (the odds of hitting the same line of code when kill it every time are not good). I do not know what debuggers you have (gdb?) but that is another trick. Eric From: stunnel-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vincent Deschenes Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:05 AM To: Murrey, Brian J. <Brian.Murrey(a)trimedx.com>; stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] CPU 100% Just a silly idea, but is it possible you have a re-entrant configuration for one service, one that connect back to itself creating a loop? Vincent Deschenes Ing. PMP From: stunnel-users <stunnel-users-bounces(a)stunnel.org <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Murrey, Brian J. Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2018 1:57 PM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org <mailto:[email protected]> 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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Windows stunnel Command Line Configuration File Location
by Steve Jones 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

I would like to be able to run stunnel interactively on Windows, but specify a different location for the configuration file. When I looked at the help output, it stated that you could pass a parameter for "[<filename>]". I assumed I could put a path on there, but it does not appear to work. For example, I tried running "stunnel.exe C:\temp\stunnel.conf", but it would not find the configuration file even though it is there. Is there a way to do what I am trying to do or does the config file have to be in a folder "..\config"? Thanks.

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CPU 100%
by Murrey, Brian J. 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

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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stunnel 5.49 on Win32 (invalid configuration file)
by Hardik Mehta 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hi, can you please help, I was able to send a mail using blat, stunnel and gmail and then i tried adding Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Name: Stunnel Type: REG_SZ Value: "c:\Program Files (x86)\stunnel\bin\stunnel.exe" to run on windows startup, but as soon as i restarted the system gave me following message stunnel 5.49 on Win32 (invalid configuration file) Stunnel server is down due to an error. you need to exit and correct the problem. click of to see the error lg window this is the log that i'm getting on stunnel [ ] 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 [SMTP Gmail] [ ] Ciphers: HIGH:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!DH:!kDHEPSK [ ] TLS options: 0x03000004 (+0x00000000, -0x00000000) [ ] No certificate or private key specified [:] Service [SMTP Gmail] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks [ ] Initializing service [POP3 Gmail] [ ] Ciphers: HIGH:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!DH:!kDHEPSK [ ] TLS options: 0x03000004 (+0x00000000, -0x00000000) [ ] No certificate or private key specified [:] Service [POP3 Gmail] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks [.] Configuration successful [ ] Binding service [SMTP Gmail] [ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=1800) [ ] Setting accept socket options (FD=1800) [ ] Option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE set on accept socket [ ] Service [SMTP Gmail] (FD=1800) bound to ::1:1099 [ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=1516) [ ] Setting accept socket options (FD=1516) [ ] Option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE set on accept socket [.] Binding service [SMTP Gmail] to 127.0.0.1:1099: Address already in use (WSAEADDRINUSE) (10048) [ ] Binding service [POP3 Gmail] [ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=1516) [ ] Setting accept socket options (FD=1516) [ ] Option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE set on accept socket [.] Binding service [POP3 Gmail] to 127.0.0.1:1109: Address already in use (WSAEADDRINUSE) (10048) [!] Binding service [POP3 Gmail] failed [ ] Deallocating section defaults [ ] Unbinding service [SMTP Gmail] [ ] Service [SMTP Gmail] closed (FD=1800) [ ] Service [SMTP Gmail] closed [ ] Deallocating section [SMTP Gmail] [ ] Unbinding service [POP3 Gmail] [ ] Service [POP3 Gmail] closed [ ] Deallocating section [POP3 Gmail] [!] Server is down I also tried changing 1099 to some other random ports but nothing works tried stopping gui, service & service uninstall, then service reinstall, service start & open gui, but the same log appears an early help will be highly appreciated. -- Regards Quick Support <https://get.teamviewer.com/66sdg3u>, Buy Tally Online <http://experts.tallysolutions.com/tallyweb/modules/sd/docmgmt/COnlineOrderE…> , Buy Addons Online <http://www.tallysolutions.com/tallyweb/modules/sd/docmgmt/CMktPlaceHomepage…> , Tally Solutions Website <http://www.tallysolutions.com>, Hardik Printers Youtube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/user/hardikcomp>, Twitter Handle <https://twitter.com/hardikcomp>, Quora Answers <https://www.quora.com/profile/Hardik-N-Mehta-Vadalia> Legal Disclaimer The information contained in this electronic communication is intended solely for the individual(s) or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain proprietary, confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, printing, copying or other use of, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information by person(s) or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the addressee, or person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you should not copy or deliver this to anyone else. If you receive this message by mistake, please notify us by responding to this email or telephone and immediately and permanently delete all copies of this message and any attachments from your system(s). We appreciate your assistance in preserving the confidentiality of our correspondence. Any information in this message that does not relate to the official business of the organization shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. The contents of this message do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the Hardik Printers. Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. Hardik Printers attempts to sweep e-mails and attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that either are virus free. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Hardik Printers shall neither be liable for security of any information transmitted electronically nor be liable or responsible for the proper, timely and complete transmission thereof.

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Re: [stunnel-users] build static stunnel with openssl
by Peter Pentchev 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 03:09:07PM +0800, White Little wrote: > Thanks, Eric > > But I did not put it on /usr/local/opensl or /usr/local/stunnel > > > Below is my configuration log > > > [root@Stunnel-Fedora stunnel-5.49]# ./configure --enable-static > --with-ssl=/root/stunnel/openssl-1.1.0i [snip] > configure: **************************************** TLS [snip] > checking for TLS directory... /root/stunnel/openssl-1.1.0i [snip] > > I tested on ubuntu14.04, 16.04 64bit and fedora 32bit, all of them are > them are not include opennssl. What exactly makes you think that this does not include OpenSSL support? The configure script seemed to find the include/openssl/ directory in the directory that you specified; does the build fail somehow later? If it does, show us the logs from the failed build. Or does the compiled executable does not say "Compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.0i"? If it does not, show us the full build log (maybe use a pastebin-like service somewhere, e.g. paste.debian.net) BTW a question: is /root/stunnel/openssl-1.1.0i the place you extracted and compiled OpenSSL, or the place you installed it after building it? If you just built it there, you also need to install it somewhere and point the stunnel configure script at the directory where it is installed, not at the build tree. This might mean that you may need to rebuild it again after specifying a --prefix or something like that (I do not remember exactly how the OpenSSL build works). G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam(a){ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.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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Re: [stunnel-users] build static stunnel with openssl
by Eric Eberhard 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Make openssl and stunnel static. That is what I do and I consider it MUCH smarter than dynamic. I got tired of getting support calls because stunnel stopped working because the user installed a new openssl. Static will always work. Another piece of advice – do NOT put it on /usr/local/opensl or /usr/local/stunnel (or whatever the defaults are). Before building make your OWN directories. Our short name for our product is “met” so we use /usr/local/met/obj and /usr/local/met/bin for the object and binary files, respectively. This ensures nobody will install over you. This is also a real security issue mostly ignored. Most people have heard of SQL injection (where SQL is modified to do what the developer never intended). However, DLL injection (e.g. dynamic library injection) is a real problem. I could easily install an openssl DLL that does exactly what it should do … and sends the same data in clear text (or with my own encryption) to my machine. A thief could simply install one dynamic library and then OWN your data. E From: stunnel-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of White Little Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2018 11:33 PM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: [stunnel-users] build static stunnel with openssl Hi All I try to build a static (portable) stunnel that contain opensll. I know there are some similar questions long ago, but I still fail on how to build it. I try to link the stunnel to latest openssl, so I download the openssl-1.0.2p and make it. And then I type ./configure --enable-static --with-ssl= openssl-1.0.2p_dir And typing make, I found there is a stunnel binary under /src folder, but it still not include the openssl. Do I miss something that I did not notice? Thanks

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server mode support for both ECC and RSA server certificates
by Tom Hood 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hi, Can one stunnel service in server mode be configured with both ECDSA and RSA server certs? The stunnel man page Certificates section suggests only one can be specified along with its CA chain. Use case is some legacy clients don't support ECDSA, but it would be nice to support ECDSA when a client does support it. It appears that HAProxy supports this <https://www.haproxy.com/blog/serving-ecc-and-rsa-certificates-on-same-ip-wi…>,but I'm hoping there is an equivalent way to do this with stunnel. I'm currently testing with stunnel 5.49 with OpenSSL 1.0.2p on Solaris 11.3, but can rebuild with any version of openssl if that helps. Thanks, -- Tom

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