[stunnel-users] Possible use-after-free in stunnel 4.52

Wed Feb 1 19:59:37 CET 2012

On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Michal Trojnara wrote:

> David Shaw wrote:
>> I am using stunnel 4.52 in client mode with exec and connect.  The
>> client program that stunnel execs periodically exits, and is properly
>> re-started by stunnel, as I have "retry = yes" set.  However, after a
>> retry, I occasionally get a segfault inside one of the OpenSSL
>> libraries.  It does not happen right away, but once it happens, every
>> retry causes the same segfault.
> 
> I confirm your observation.
> 
> While investigating this issue I noticed that also c->err is uninitialized in connect_local().
> 
> Please try:
> ftp://ftp.stunnel.org/stunnel/beta/stunnel-4.53b3.tar.gz

Yes, this issue seems to be resolved.  Thanks!

David