All,

I'm running stunnel 4.56 as a server on Linux, as I have been doing for a while. I require clients to connect using their own client certs and yesterday one of them expired. The client generated a new certificate and sent it to me to install, and I'm getting the error in the subject.

Version details:
$ sudo stunnel -help
stunnel 4.56 on x86_64-koji-linux-gnu platform
Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017
Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6 SSL:ENGINE,OCSP,FIPS Auth:LIBWRAP

I have set verify=4 because I expect to place the exact certificate for every client into my CAFile.

This has been working for years, and when I connect using openssl s_client, I can see which client certificates the server advertises it will allow to connect, and they reflect what I expect.

The server certificate is also self-signed, so I copied that into the CAFile and I'm able to connect with openssl s_client using that certificate. So I think the problem can't be that the client's certificate is self-signed.

So, to recap:

1. stunnel in server mode
2. CAFile points to a collection of PEM certs
3. verify=4
4. I can connect with my own valid, trusted, self-signed certificate
5. Client cannot connect with their valid, trusted, self-signed cert

Any ideas?

(Note: the client DOES appear to be using their new certificate, though I can only see the subject text which could be the same, yet with a different actual certificate.)

Here is the debug(7) output from an attempted connection:

: Starting certificate verification: depth=0, [subject]
: CERT: Pre-verification error: self signed certificate
: Certificate check failed: depth=0, [subject]
: SSL alert (write): fatal: unknown CA
: SSL_accept: 14089086: error:14089086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_certificate:certificate verify failed
: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to SSL, 0 byte(s) sent to socket

Thanks,
-chris
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