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Embedded linux run time problem (starting version 4.53), and work around
by Bao, Robert 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

To those running stunnel on Embedded Linux ARMv4 platform, You may have noticed that stunnel (starting from version 4.53 to the latest) will crash immediately even if you run as "stunnel -version". The work around is to remove "-pie" and "-fPIE" from CFLAG in Makefile. Michal, You may fix this problem permanently in config file when you roll out the official 5.00 version. Thanks, and happy holidays. Robert Bao Software House Tyco International

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core dump when running stunnel on Arm based board
by ning ji 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Hi everyone, i'm new to this. got a task to update stunnel from 4.52 to 5.00b1. 1. ./configure --host arm-none-linux-gnueabi --target arm-none-linux-gnueabi --prefix= i compared the makefile with the one in our 4.52 code base, same. 2. build with make -C stunnel CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- ARCH=arm 3. scp to ARM board, run without arugments, core dump. (the line number might be different as i was putting printfs. but as long as it enters parse_commandline, it crashes) [New LWP 867]Cannot access memory at address 0x70797263(gdb) bt#0 parse_commandline (name=0xbefdce29 "/opt/ultra/config/stunnel.conf", parameter=0xbefdce48 "-version") at options.c:1940#1 0x0003ba04 in main_configure (arg1=0xbefdce29 "/opt/ultra/config/stunnel.conf", arg2=0xbefdce48 "-version") at stunnel.c:199#2 0x0003bd44 in main_unix (argv=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>)at stunnel.c:135#3 main (argc=3, argv=0xbefdcd24) at stunnel.c:110my question is, it crashed when just entering parse_commandline( ),the 2 arguments look fine to me.How could this happen ?Many thanks !

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public domain [PATCH] to stunnel 500b3 for Windows CE / Windows Mobile, "no log window bug" on WCE, UNICODE wce/w32, and compilation issues fixed
by Pierre DELAAGE 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Dear All, Please find enclosed a patch in "diff -cr orig patched" format, applying to stunnel v500b3 as found here https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html This patch mainly addresses compilation and unicode issues for Windows CE targets + ONE issue preventing stunnel to display error logs in error Window on WCE. This code has been made common to WCE AND W32, by selecting proper win32 api calls common to both platforms. For example : InsertMenuItem does not exist on WCE, but InsertMenu can do the same job. ShellExecute does not exist on WCE, but...ShellExecuteEx does exist on both platforms and can do the job. I use MS EVC 4sp4 compiler with WCE 420 SDK, on a vista sp2 host platform. Once debugged the code works fine on WM6 HTC smartphones. Should work on WM5. It needs a windows CE openssl lib (I recompiled MY patched version of openssl 1.0.2snap20121213 successfully: I have sent a patch to those openssl gentlemen, hoping that they will integrate it one fine day..., something not so obvious ...). You will find my openssl "patch to port", by following carefully this thread at openssl diffusion list : http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=135574071824906&w=2 two messages are more important than the others : one containing the patch on the code. Another one containing 2 useful scripts. The present stunnel patch addresses the following issues : ************* I] COMPILATION FAILURES It is important to state that to detect more type mismatching (that can be error prone at runtime), I delibarately use /WX option on both WCE and W32 compilers: this flag takes each warning as an error. This is very useful for UNICODE clean coding as, without this option, the compiler will just warn when seeing a short* (unicode string) used as a char* (ansi string), which leads to big pb at run time. 1/ orig/src/client.c just a warning on missing "return". 2/ evc.mak new SSLDIR to openssl V102snap20121213 Missing flag x86 needed to get inline function InterlockedExchange from winbase.h. Added dependency to evc.mak itself, as in vc.mak Added commctrl.lib for CommandBar routines (although, strangely, the program was running without that !) 3/ gui.c : UNICODE port for W32/WCE. WM_WINDOWSPOSCHHANGED replaces WM_SHOWINDOW, as the latter is unsupported in WCE. some mismatch between prototype and function definition for service_install. Visible now is a BOOL, as it is more consistant with its value and usage. Some "return TRUE" have been replaced by "return 0" as stated in msdn doc. Trick to delete menuitems : itemcount does not exist in WCE, but the delete loop is using the return value of deletemenu. message_boxT created for Tchar vars such as section->help ShellExecute replaced by shellExecuteEx, common to WCE and W32 4/ prototypes.h : declared message_boxT 5/ resolver.c : UNICODE issue on LoadLibrary 6/ stunnel.c type cast for time_t 7/ vc.mak : inc32 for openssl includes /WX warning as error flag to see every potential casting problem around UNICODE ************* II] OPERATIONAL ERRORS (at run-time) 1/ error log windows is displayed empty : cause = WM_SHOWWINDOW does not exist on WCE, although the constant is declared ! solution : use WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED instead... 2/ Unsolved, unfortunaltely : on WCE only, on start, there is an error message, but no real error behind : "CommandBar_InsertMenuBar : error 120 : this function is only valid in win32 mode" I am still searching... ************* III] MINOR IMPROVMENT 1/replaced some win3.1 ugly fonts See resources.rc : some nice FONT on About and Password dlgbox...to replace ugly windows3.1 style bold font... Note : I use stunnel to establish a simple "vpn" between smartphones and a corporate linux server mainly for HTTPS/POPS/SMTPS support. Stunnel is very relevant in that matter, over solutions based on SSH (although we use also ssh), from a communication cost point of view : ssh establishes permanent socket between client and server, so that the communication is charged by the mobile network provider : and these charges are very expensive. On the contrary stunnel only establishes ssl sockets on demand so that financial charges are limited to strict necessary. Please note that stunnel brings "client based certificate authentication" to POP/SMTP mobile mail user agents which only BASICALLY supports SSL with server authentication, but NO client authentication, such as M$ Outlook for Mobile (unless you pay for an exchange server and exchange client licence). Here again stunnel is very relevant. Note 2 : TODO list and Wish list : 1/ there is a remaining runtime bug on WCE : On start there is a warning that is NOT causing any failure in the software. Very difficult to analyse... 2/ find a notepad for WCE... 3/ in log.c...I really it would be good to replace hard coded values for socket errors by symbolic constant. 4/ fips openssl for WCE and then stunnel for WCE... I hope you will find this patch useful. Michal, thank you for your excellent work, Yours sincerely, Pierre Delaage

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WCE 3.0 run-time error, how to work around it?
by Bao, Robert 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Mike, The stunnel version used in our current product is 4.34. It worked well under Windows CE 3.0 and 5.0. However I got run-time error for 5.00 beta version under WCE 3.0 (even though I disabled IPv6, took out winsock2.h/ws2tcpip.h, included winsock.h, defined "struct addrinfo", etc ). The error is: Error detected on SSL (read) file descriptor: Bad protocol option (WSAENOPROTOOPT) (10042) What else I need to do to resolve or work around it? Thank you. Robert Bao Software House Tyco International

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Win CE build errors: main_execute() removed from stunnel.c file? "hwnd" link error.
by Bao, Robert 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Came across another Win CE build issue in the current stunnel 4.54 version. Got link error for main_execute() referenced in nogui.c file. I noticed that the implementation of "main_execute()" was in stunnel.c file in old versions, but is not there anymore. Also got "hwnd" linking issue. Looks like "hwnd" is initialized/created in gui.c file, and used in log.c/client.c/option.c files. It is not initialized/created in nogui.c file. I am using the NOGUIOBJS/tstunnel.exe option in building the stunnel, and got this linking error. Any suggestions on how to fix these or work around them? Thanks. Robert Bao Software House Tyco International 978-577-4202 Explore our new Tyco Online Learning Center Web-based Training Bundles at: www.swhouse.com/support/tyco_online_learning_center.aspx This e-mail may contain or have attached to it information or technology the export or re-export of which is restricted by U.S. laws and regulations. By viewing this e-mail and any attachments, the recipient agrees to the following: (i) the recipients use of the contents of this e-mail and any attachments shall comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, U.S. international trade laws and regulations, and (ii) the recipient may not transfer or otherwise export or re-export any information or technology contained in this e-mail or any attachment except in full compliance with the export controls administered by the U.S. and other countries and any applicable import and use restrictions.

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protocols options clarification
by John A. Wallace 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

The Service Level Options of the manual includes the following points: protocol = proto application protocol to negotiate SSL (e.g. starttls or stls) protocol option should not be used with SSL encryption on a separate port. Currently supported protocols: CIFS Connect Etc.. However, in the listed protocols supported neither "starttls" or "stls" appears, even though they appear to be options as far as I can see from the above explanation. Am I missing something here, or should they be among those in the list, and can one use this setting: Protocol=starttls Also, I don't really understand what this statement is telling me: "protocol option should not be used with SSL encryption on a separate port." John A. Wallace

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Re: [stunnel-users] protocols options clarification
by jw72253＠verizon.net 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

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how to use My Own Signed Wildcard cert
by robbi3j 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Can anyone help ... have looked through the forums but cannot get this to work I want to configure Stunnel to use my already signed wildcard cert how to I go about importing it ? .. i have the cert file with the private key attached which is password protected can anyone help as its driving me nuts ! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/how-to-use-My-Own-Signed-Wildcard-cert-tp34756779p347… Sent from the Stunnel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Console-only version for Windows
by Clodo 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is a binary version of stunnel for Windows WITHOUT the gui, console/terminal only? I have some different problems with the GUI edition: - - Fail to read filename with spaces? - - If is already in execution and i run stunnel.exe with some other parameters, they are ignored and simply give the focus to the current instance, so issue with launching multiple instances. Why there isn't any console-only version, exacly like the standard linux distribution? The Cygwin version works great, but isn't portable, doesn't work without Cygwin environment. There are some big trouble about that, or simply doesn't exists the .mak project file? I'm also available to pay with a donation a build like that. I'm waiting for feedback. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEVAwUBUKPN8i/ixHrG0m4LAQLxdwf/RF1faK3tksXnl6qm8Bi6HIFaG72tmFMJ LwQuY0gJh7rYDJs3NUQwh4XczMqi+5a8/SRZFojSewI2WfeZgLuXC58iq5nkAULm quaEN5ynjen80RJ7MtGg9weoHcpV1kug5HKJUwYZLU0lp8CvEGNhl8sgGT/bCUS7 gzdfi1d3YohBbEn8XZZgmmUmp1oShY4dh47Sd4vVlzaL3WkxqNIasCJJCwWk7lUz dPuy8XCi6y+Aes1T2SF87GAwvdkr0FbPiN0GcCXGczZxNjOiGNGOwqaHnxDknibr kHoGU/vv1PKWU5AYGiryD/YiUt0nHC/7I7IKU3tFu3smmFR8BTOwKA== =lLyE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Patch to fix: Wildcard SSL certificates + SNI broken on Firefox
by Stephen Balukoff 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hello! I noticed that when dealing with wildcard certs in stunnel where an SNI configuration is being used, unless a specific servername context that exactly matches the browser's requested servername is in the stunnel.conf, stunnel responds to the client (web browser in this case) with a SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_ALERT_FATAL. Most browsers fall back to a non-SNI request, at which point, stunnel responds with whatever the master service's certificate is (which, if it's a wildcard cert, just works). However, at least one popularly-used web browser (Firefox) does not do this, and instead returns an error message to the user which they cannot (and should not need to) override to view the site contents. Since it's impractical to list all the possible servernames that can match at wildcard cert, and it's also impractical to expect the Firefox developers to change the behavior of their browser (when they shouldn't have to), and even more impractical to expect all the current users of Firefox to upgrade in a timely manner... I went ahead and wrote a patch for stunnel which instructs it to look for a matching wildcard certificate, if an exactly-matching servername isn't found. I've attached this patch to this message. Beyond fixing the stunnel+wildcard cert+SNI+firefox problem above, the secondary benefits of this patch are: * stunnel now responds immediately with a matching cert in the case of a wildcard cert, thus eliminating that first exchange which results in the SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_ALERT_FATAL error above. For stupid browsers and configurations with keepalive turned off + lots of requests per page and high latency, this should help to significantly improve performance. * stunnel will still choose an exactly matching cert if it's available and configured. (ie. if the browser requests 'subdomain.example.com', and there's a certificate configured in stunnel for 'subdomain.example.com' and another for '*.example.com', stunnel will respond with the ' subdomain.example.com' cert.) * one can now use multiple wildcard certs on a single IP:Port combination thanks to SNI. (Without this patch, you can effectively only use one wildcard cert per IP:Port combination with stunnel.) One note: It's been years since I've written any C code, so can't really vouch for the quality of my patch. I'm hoping at least the maintainers of this project see the utility of the patch I'm providing and write something similar in non-stupid C. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen Balukoff Blue Box Group, LLC (800)613-4305 x807

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