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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:6979 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2024-09-24
Updated:
2024-09-24

RHBA-2024:6979 - Bug Fix Advisory

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Synopsis

stunnel bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for stunnel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

Stunnel is a wrapper for network connections. It can be used to tunnel an unencrypted network connection over an encrypted connection (encrypted using SSL or TLS) or to provide an encrypted means of connecting to services that do not natively support encryption.

Bug Fix(es):

  • stunnel service using stunnel-5.71-2 fails to start and consuming more CPU on RHEL 8.10 (JIRA:RHEL-46411)
  • stunnel-5.71-2 fails to start with "No trusted certificates found" if CAfile bundle is in extended file format (JIRA:RHEL-50154)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • RHEL-50154 - stunnel-5.71-2 fails to start with "No trusted certificates found" if CAfile bundle is in extended file format

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8

SRPM
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 130798399e029b4efa9ca445834792812e7cc2c24ef87b6349cf69edeb8f584a
x86_64
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3b9d3c1488335ae131a242004599a9c6d3cde006931a77cc38f7e7f8462206ce
stunnel-debuginfo-5.71-2.el8_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8c0205364e541cfccce0ece102fb0cce52e4b89971084e531cb55c575aea1da4
stunnel-debugsource-5.71-2.el8_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2f4bfbbff0d71339e6847985acf01717af9da66f32282b598ecffbc3b79700a0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8

SRPM
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 130798399e029b4efa9ca445834792812e7cc2c24ef87b6349cf69edeb8f584a
s390x
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: e198db835fb536dab61c5c2746a93c7bdbbcaaa9bdf15f8000cb0064bcd137e6
stunnel-debuginfo-5.71-2.el8_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 8766876c3255d2a45ab4bb4f45fa6ea61123f60efe3b90b6f38f79d8aebedb0e
stunnel-debugsource-5.71-2.el8_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: c61894ec1fa1019107db3439bc04c0356b9e071f5383203662b5e981bd3cc7bc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8

SRPM
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 130798399e029b4efa9ca445834792812e7cc2c24ef87b6349cf69edeb8f584a
ppc64le
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 74f0079c977dd687d22a1f60cf416abd30c39d40b32efb5b364f6d3cb6da9f94
stunnel-debuginfo-5.71-2.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 2f6d0aa04a92e14da8bc7caf4d4b918f305a4e0fd9289ce1e7b5aab19b025bcd
stunnel-debugsource-5.71-2.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 125a065950fc092fb66cda904198d54732662f53431500c8f8a0811dd5625a29

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8

SRPM
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 130798399e029b4efa9ca445834792812e7cc2c24ef87b6349cf69edeb8f584a
aarch64
stunnel-5.71-2.el8_10.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 78765fd3dd5d7d5e24813a2a8ae72ec8eb3e21d59f328f55d0b9f9fcccaccda8
stunnel-debuginfo-5.71-2.el8_10.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 532d6bdc86a05f17f7ac86384a8f0676e70d1e84cf6f0fba540b27bbef675807
stunnel-debugsource-5.71-2.el8_10.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: bdf359198459b16a4f6ddb6140caa898dc85fe10ac45f0ee73bc10639a43e884

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