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####################### V 2.0.0-b8:
security:
CVE-2015-1379
Fixed problems with signal handling caused by use of not async signal
safe functions in signal handlers that could freeze socat, allowing
denial of service attacks.
Many changes in signal handling and the diagnostic messages system were
applied to make the code async signal safe but still provide detailled
logging from signal handlers:
Coded function vsnprintf_r() as async signal safe incomplete substitute
of libc vsnprintf()
Coded function snprinterr() to replace %m in strings with a system error
message
Instead of gettimeofday() use clock_gettime() when available
Pass Diagnostic messages from signal handler per unix socket to the main
program flow
Use sigaction() instead of signal() for better control
Turn off nested signal handler invocations
Thanks to Peter Lobsinger for reporting and explaining this issue.
Red Hat issue 1019975: add TLS host name checks
OpenSSL client checks if the server certificates names in
extensions/subjectAltName/DNS or in subject/commonName match the name
used to connect or the value of the openssl-commonname option.
Test: OPENSSL_CN_CLIENT_SECURITY
OpenSSL server checks if the client certificates names in
extensions/subjectAltNames/DNS or subject/commonName match the value of
the openssl-commonname option when it is used.
Test: OPENSSL_CN_SERVER_SECURITY
Red Hat issue 1019964: socat now uses the system certificate store with
OPENSSL when neither options cafile nor capath are used
Red Hat issue 1019972: needs to specify OpenSSL cipher suites
Default cipherlist is now "HIGH:-NULL:-PSK:-aNULL" instead of empty to
prevent downgrade attacks
corrections:
LISTEN based addresses applied some address options, e.g. so-keepalive,
to the listening file descriptor instead of the connected file
descriptor
Thanks to Ulises Alonso for reporting this bug
make failed after configure with non gcc compiler due to missing
include. Thanks to Horacio Mijail for reporting this problem
configure checked for --disable-rawsocket but printed
--disable-genericsocket in the help text. Thanks to Ben Gardiner for
reporting and patching this bug
procan could not cleanly format ulimit values longer than 16 decimal
digits. Thanks to Frank Dana for providing a patch that increases field
width to 24 digits.
OPENSSL-CONNECT with bind option failed on some systems, eg.FreeBSD, with
"Invalid argument"
Thanks to Emile den Tex for reporting this bug.
Changed some variable definitions to make gcc -O2 aliasing checker happy
Thanks to Ilya Gordeev for reporting these warnings
On big endian platforms with type long >32bit the range option applied a
bad base address. Thanks to hejia hejia for reporting and fixing this bug.
Red Hat issue 1022070: missing length check in xiolog_ancillary_socket()
Red Hat issue 1022063: out-of-range shifts on net mask bits
Red Hat issue 1022062: strcpy misuse in xiosetsockaddrenv_ip4()
Red Hat issue 1022048: strncpy hardening: corrected suspicious strncpy()
uses
Red Hat issue 1021958: fixed a bug with faulty buffer/data length
calculation in xio-ascii.c:_xiodump()
Red Hat issue 1021972: fixed a missing NUL termination in return string
of sysutils.c:sockaddr_info() for the AF_UNIX case
fixed some typos and minor issues, including:
Red Hat issue 1021967: formatting error in manual page
UNIX-LISTEN with fork option did not remove the socket file system entry
when exiting. Other file system based passive address types had similar
issues or failed to apply options umask, user e.a.
Thanks to Lorenzo Monti for pointing me to this issue
fixed bug in xio-openssl.c that prevented error handling of bad number
of arguments, thanks to Paulik Tamas for reporting
when UNIX-LISTEN was applied to an existing file it failed as expected
but removed the file. Thanks to Bjoern Bosselmann for reporting this
problem
fixed a bug where socat might crash when connecting to a unix domain
socket using address GOPEN. Thanks to Martin Forssen for bug report and
patch.
UDP-LISTEN would alway set SO_REUSEADDR even without fork option and
when user set it to 0. Thanks to Michal Svoboda for reporting this bug.
UNIX-CONNECT did not support half-close. Thanks to Greg Hughes who
pointed me to that bug
TCP-CONNECT with option nonblock reported successful connect even when
it was still pending
address option ioctl-intp failed with "unimplemented type 26". Thanks
to Jeremy W. Sherman for reporting and fixing that bug
socat option -x did not print packet direction, timestamp etc; thanks
to Anthony Sharobaiko for sending a patch
Marcus Meissner provided a patch that fixes invalid output and possible
process crash when socat prints info about an unnamed unix domain
socket
Michal Soltys reported the following problem and provided an initial
patch: when socat was interrupted, e.g. by SIGSTOP, and resumed during
data transfer only parts of the data might have been written.
Option o-nonblock in combination with large transfer block sizes
may result in partial writes and/or EAGAIN errors that were not handled
properly but resulted in data loss or process termination.
Fixed a bug that could freeze socat when during assembly of a log
message a signal was handled that also printed a log message. socat
development had been aware that localtime() is not thread safe but had
only expected broken messages, not corrupted stack (glibc 2.11.1,
Ubuntu 10.4)
an internal store for child pids was susceptible to pid reuse which
could lead to sporadic data loss when both fork option and exec address
were used. Thanks to Tetsuya Sodo for reporting this problem and
sending a patch
OpenSSL server failed with "no shared cipher" when using cipher aNULL.
Fixed by providing temporary DH parameters. Thanks to Philip Rowlands
for drawing my attention to this issue.
UDP-LISTEN slept 1s after accepting a connection. This is not required.
Thanks to Peter Valdemar Morch for reporting this issue
fixed a bug that could lead to error or socat crash after a client
connection with option retry had been established
fixed configure.in bug on net/if.h check that caused IF_NAMESIZE to be
undefined
improved dev_t print format definition
user-late and group-late, when applied to a pty, affected the system
device /dev/ptmx instead of the pty (thanks to Matthew Cloke for
pointing me to this bug)
socats openssl addresses failed with "nonblocking operation did not
complete" when the peer performed a renegotiation. Thanks to Benjamin
Delpy for reporting this bug.
info message during socks connect showed bad port number on little
endian systems due to wrong byte order (thanks to Peter M. Galbavy for
bug report and patch)
Debian bug 531078: socat execs children with SIGCHLD ignored; corrected
to default. Thanks to Martin Dorey for reporting this bug.
corrected the "fixed possible SIGSEGV" fix because SIGSEGV still might
occur under those conditions. Thanks to Toni Mattila for first
reporting this problem.
ftruncate64 cut its argument to 32 bits on systems with 32 bit long type
with unidirectional EXEC and SYSTEM a close() operation was performed
on a random number which could result in hanging e.a.
fixed a compile problem caused by size_t/socklen_t mismatch on 64bit
systems
docu mentions option so-bindtodev but correct name is so-bindtodevice.
Thanks to Jim Zimmerman for reporting.
Bind with ABSTRACT commands used non-abstract namespace (Linux).
Test: ABSTRACT_BIND
Thanks to Denis Shatov for reporting this bug.
Fixed return value of nestlex()
Option ignoreeof on the right address hung.
Test: IGNOREEOF_REV
Thanks to Franz Fasching for reporting this bug.
Address SYSTEM, when terminating, shut down its parent addresses,
e.g. an SSL connection which the parent assumed to still be active.
Test: SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN
Passive (listening or receiving) addresses with empty port field bound
to a random port instead of terminating with error.
Test: TCP4_NOPORT
configure with some combination of disable options produced config
files that failed to compile due to missing IPPROTO_TCP.
Thanks to Thierry Fournier for report and patch.
Fixed a few minor bugs with OpenSSL in configure and with messages
Socat did not work in FIPS mode because 1024 instead of 512 bit DH prime
is required. Thanks to Zhigang Wang for reporting and sending a patch.
Christophe Leroy provided a patch that fixes memory leaks reported by
valgrind
Help for filan -L was bad, is now corrected to:
"follow symbolic links instead of showing their properties"
Address options fdin and fdout were silently ignored when not applicable
due to -u or -U option. Now these combinations are caught as errors.
Test: FDOUT_ERROR
Issue reported by Hendrik.
Added option termios-cfmakeraw that calls cfmakeraw() and is preferred
over option raw which is now obsolote. On SysV systems this call is
simulated by appropriate setting.
Thanks to Youfu Zhang for reporting issue with option raw.
ioctl-intp
-T hang
mixed directions
socat_open sprintf overflow
Fixed bidirectional UDP-LISTEN error
Compilation failed under some non-Linux operating systems due to use
of old rfd1 component
OPENSSL-LISTEN failed with "Bad file descriptor" when used in
write-only context
UDP-LISTEN failed with "...is not available". Thanks to Fred for
reporting this problem
Address FD was not read from when used bidirectionally. Thanks to David
Halls for reporting this bug.
Options shut-none, shut-down, shut-close all might not have worked
correctly. Thanks to Ray Song for reporting this issue.
Fixed Debug arguments issue in _socat()
Dual type addresses terminated when they were idle for EOF timeout time
off_t may be long long
more corrections for non Linux
configure.ac
porting:
Red Hat issue 1020203: configure checks fail with some compilers.
Use case: clang
Performed changes for Fedora release 19
Adapted, improved test.sh script
Red Hat issue 1021429: getgroupent fails with large number of groups;
use getgrouplist() when available instead of sequence of calls to
getgrent()
Red Hat issue 1021948: snprintf API change;
Implemented xio_snprintf() function as wrapper that tries to emulate C99
behaviour on old glibc systems, and adapted all affected calls
appropriately
Mike Frysinger provided a patch that supports long long for time_t,
socklen_t and a few other libc types.
Artem Mygaiev extended Cedril Priscals Android build script with pty code
The check for fips.h required stddef.h
Thanks to Matt Hilt for reporting this issue and sending a patch
Check for linux/errqueue.h failed on some systems due to lack of
linux/types.h inclusion. Thanks to Michael Vastola for sending a patch.
autoconf now prefers configure.ac over configure.in
Thanks to Michael Vastola for sending a patch.
type of struct cmsghdr.cmsg is system dependend, determine it with
configure; some more print format corrections
libwrap always logs to syslog
added actual text version of GPLv2
Cedril Priscal ported socat to Android (using Googles cross compiler).
The port includes the socat_buildscript_for_android.sh script
added check for component ipi_spec_dst in struct in_pktinfo so
compilation does not fail on Cygwin (thanks to Peter Wagemans for
reporting this problem)
build failed on RHEL6 due to presence of fips.h; configure now checks
for fipsld too. Thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher for reporting this
problem
check for netinet6/in6.h only when IPv6 is available and enabled
don't fail to compile when the following defines are missing:
IPV6_PKTINFO IPV6_RTHDR IPV6_DSTOPTS IPV6_HOPOPTS IPV6_HOPLIMIT
Thanks to Jerry Jacobs for reporting this problem (Mac OS X Lion 10.7)
check if define __APPLE_USE_RFC_2292 helps to enable IPV6_* (MacOSX
Lion 7.1); thanks to Jerry Jacobs to reporting this problem and
proposing a solution
fixed compiler warnings on Mac OS X 64bit. Thanks to Guy Harris for
providing the patch.
corrections for OpenEmbedded, especially termios SHIFT values and
ISPEED/OSPEED. Thanks to John Faith for providing the patch
fixed sa_family_t compile error on DragonFly; minor code cleanup.
Thanks to Tony Young for reporting this issue and sending a patch.
Ubuntu Oneiric: OpenSSL no longer provides SSLv2 functions; libutil.sh
is now bsd/libutil.h; compiler warns on vars that is only written to
building socat on systems that predefined the CFLAGS environment to
contain -Wall failed (esp.RedHat). Thanks to Paul Wouters for reporting
this problem and to Simon Matter for providing the patch
support for Solaris 8 and Sun Studio support (thanks to Sebastian
Kayser for providing the patches)
on some 64bit systems a compiler warning "cast from pointer to integer
of different size" was issued on some option definitions
added struct sockaddr_ll to union sockaddr_union to avoid "strict
aliasing" warnings (problem reported by Paul Wouters)
Socat included <sys/poll.h> instead of POSIX <poll.h>
Thanks to John Spencer for reporting this issue.
Version 1.7.2.4 changed the check for gcc in configure.ac; this
broke cross compiling. The particular check gets reverted.
Thanks to Ross Burton and Danomi Manchego for reporting this issue.
Debian Bug#764251: Set the build timestamp to a deterministic time:
support external BUILD_DATE env var to allow to build reproducable
binaries
Joachim Fenkes provided an new adapted spec file.
Type bool and macros Min and Max are defined by socat which led to
compile errors when they were already provided by build framework.
Thanks to Liyu Liu for providing a patch.
David Arnstein contributed a patch for NetBSD 5.1 including stdbool.h
support and appropriate files in Config/
Lauri Tirkkonen contributed a patch regarding netinet/if_ether.h
on Illumos
Changes for Openindiana: define _XPG4_2, __EXTENSIONS__,
_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS; and minor changes
Red Hat issue 1182005: socat 1.7.2.4 build failure missing
linux/errqueue.h
Socat failed to compile on on PPC due to new requirements for
including <linux/errqueue.h> and a weakness in the conditional code.
Thanks to Michel Normand for reporting this issue.
Use 'environ' variable only when provided by runtime
new features:
added option max-children that limits the number of concurrent child
processes. Thanks to Sam Liddicott for providing the patch.
Till Maas added support for tun/tap addresses without IP address
added an option openssl-compress that allows to disable the compression
feature of newer OpenSSL versions. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann for
providing this contribution (sponsored by Google Inc.)
OpenSSL addresses set couple of environment variables from values in
peer certificate, e.g.:
SOCAT_OPENSSL_X509_SUBJECT, SOCAT_OPENSSL_X509_ISSUER,
SOCAT_OPENSSL_X509_COMMONNAME,
SOCAT_OPENSSL_X509V3_SUBJECTALTNAME_DNS
Tests: ENV_OPENSSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_X509_*
Added support for methods TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, and DTLS1
Tests: OPENSSL_METHOD_*
Enabled OpenSSL server side use of ECDHE ciphers. Feature suggested
by Andrey Arapov.
Added a new option termios-rawer for ptys.
Thanks to Christian Vogelgsang for pointing me to this requirement
doc:
minor corrections in docu (thanks to Paggas)
minor corrections in doc (2x)
client process -> child process
In the man page the PTY example was badly formatted. Thanks to
J.F.Sebastian for sending a patch.
Added missing CVE ids to security issues in CHANGES
testing:
Do not distribute testcert.conf with socat source but generate it
(and new testcert6.conf) during test.sh run.
####################### V 2.0.0-b7:
security:
CVE-2014-0019: socats PROXY-CONNECT address was vulnerable to a buffer
overflow with data from command line (see socat-secadv5.txt)
Credits to Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team
####################### V 2.0.0-b6:
security:
CVE-2013-3571:
after refusing a client connection due to bad source address or source
port socat shutdown() the socket but did not close() it, resulting in
a file descriptor leak in the listening process, visible with lsof and
possibly resulting in EMFILE Too many open files. This issue could be
misused for a denial of service attack.
Full credits to Catalin Mitrofan for finding and reporting this issue.
####################### V 2.0.0-b5:
security:
CVE-2012-0219:
fixed a possible heap buffer overflow in the readline address. This bug
could be exploited when all of the following conditions were met:
1) one of the addresses is READLINE without the noprompt and without the
prompt options.
2) the other (almost arbitrary address) reads malicious data (which is
then transferred by socat to READLINE).
Workaround: when using the READLINE address apply option prompt or
noprompt.
Full credits to Johan Thillemann for finding and reporting this issue.
####################### V 2.0.0-b4:
security:
CVE-2010-2799:
fixed a stack overflow vulnerability that occurred when command
line arguments (whole addresses, host names, file names) were longer
than 512 bytes.
Note that this could only be exploited when an attacker was able to
inject data into socat's command line.
Full credits to Felix Gröbert, Google Security Team, for finding and
reporting this issue
####################### V 2.0.0-b3:
new features:
added inter addresses for execution of external programs or scripts:
EXEC2 and SYSTEM2 are bidirectional, EXEC1 and SYSTEM1 are
unidirectional
option commtype replaces the now obsolete "socketpair" and "pipes"
options and selects the communication mechanism on the left side of
EXEC and SYSTEM addresses
options leftfd, leftinfd, leftoutfd; and rightfd, rightinfd,
rightoutfd override the default file descriptor numbers provided to
exec'd programs
####################### V 2.0.0-b2:
new features:
address chains consisting of inter and endpoint addresses, linked with
'|' (pipe character)
reverse inter addresses
dual type inter addresses
changed form of dual addresses from in!!out to out%in
address overloading per parameter number, inter/endpoint type, and
supported transfer directions
derived new inter addresses OPENSSL-CLIENT, OPENSSL-SERVER,
PROXY-CLIENT, SOCKS4-CLIENT, SOCKS4A-CLIENT from related old addresses
new inter address SOCKS5-CLIENT
new inter address NOP
new inter address TEST, TESTUNI, TESTREV
new form of PTY address with symlink paramater
new form of FD address with output/input fd numbers
####################### V 1.7.1.0:
new features:
address options shut-none, shut-down, and shut-close allow to control
socat's half close behaviour
with address option shut-null socat sends an empty packet to the peer
to indicate EOF
option null-eof changes the behaviour of sockets that receive an empty
packet to see EOF instead of ignoring it
introduced option names substuser-early and su-e, currently equivalent
to option substuser (thanks to Mike Perry for providing the patch)
corrections:
fixed some typos and improved some comments
####################### V 1.7.0.1:
corrections:
fixed possible SIGSEGV in listening addresses when a new connection was
reset by peer before the socket addresses could be retrieved. Thanks to
Mike Perry for sending a patch.
fixed a bug, introduced with version 1.7.0.0, that let client
connections with option connect-timeout fail when the connections
succeeded. Thanks to Bruno De Fraine for reporting this bug.
option end-close "did not apply" to addresses PTY, SOCKET-CONNECT,
and most UNIX-* and ABSTRACT-*
half close of EXEC and SYSTEM addresses did not work for pipes and
sometimes socketpair
help displayed for some option a wrong type
under some circumstances shutdown was called multiple times for the
same fd
####################### V 1.7.0.0:
new features:
new address types SCTP-CONNECT and SCTP-LISTEN implement SCTP stream
mode for IPv4 and IPv6; new address options sctp-maxseg and
sctp-nodelay (suggested by David A. Madore; thanks to Jonathan Brannan
for providing an initial patch)
new address "INTERFACE" for transparent network interface handling
(suggested by Stuart Nicholson)
added generic socket addresses: SOCKET-CONNECT, SOCKET-LISTEN,
SOCKET-SENDTO, SOCKET-RECVFROM, SOCKET-RECV, SOCKET-DATAGRAM allow
protocol independent socket handling; all parameters are explicitely
specified as numbers or hex data
added address options ioctl-void, ioctl-int, ioctl-intp, ioctl-string,
ioctl-bin for generic ioctl() calls.
added address options setsockopt-int, setsockopt-bin, and
setsockopt-string for generic setsockopt() calls
option so-type now only affects the socket() and socketpair() calls,
not the name resolution. so-type and so-prototype can now be applied to
all socket based addresses.
new address option "escape" allows to break a socat instance even when
raw terminal mode prevents ^C etc. (feature suggested by Guido Trotter)
socat sets environment variables SOCAT_VERSION, SOCAT_PID, SOCAT_PPID
for use in executed scripts
socat sets environment variables SOCAT_SOCKADDR, SOCAT_SOCKPORT,
SOCAT_PEERADDR, SOCAT_PEERPORT in LISTEN type addresses (feature
suggested by Ed Sawicki)
socat receives all ancillary messages with each received packet on
datagram related addresses. The messages are logged in raw form with
debug level, and broken down with info level. note: each type of
ancillary message must be enabled by appropriate address options.
socat provides the contents of ancillary messages received on RECVFROM
addresses in appropriate environment variables:
SOCAT_TIMESTAMP, SOCAT_IP_DSTADDR, SOCAT_IP_IF, SOCAT_IP_LOCADDR,
SOCAT_IP_OPTIONS, SOCAT_IP_TOS, SOCAT_IP_TTL, SOCAT_IPV6_DSTADDR,
SOCAT_IPV6_HOPLIMIT, SOCAT_IPV6_TCLASS
the following address options were added to enable ancillary messages:
so-timestamp, ip-pktinfo (not BSD), ip-recvdstaddr (BSD), ip-recverr,
ip-recvif (BSD), ip-recvopts, ip-recvtos, ip-recvttl, ipv6-recvdstopts,
ipv6-recverr, ipv6-recvhoplimit, ipv6-recvhopopts, ipv6-recvpathmtu,
ipv6-recvpktinfo, ipv6-recvrthdr, ipv6-recvtclass
new address options ipv6-tclass and ipv6-unicast-hops set the related
socket options.
STREAMS (UNIX System V STREAMS) can be configured with the new address
options i-pop-all and i-push (thanks to Michal Rysavy for providing a
patch)
corrections:
some raw IP and UNIX datagram modes failed on BSD systems
when UDP-LISTEN continued to listen after packet dropped by, e.g.,
range option, the old listen socket would not be closed but a new one
created. open sockets could accumulate.
there was a bug in ip*-recv with bind option: it did not bind, and
with the first received packet an error occurred:
socket_init(): unknown address family 0
test: RAWIP4RECVBIND
RECVFROM addresses with FORK option hung after processing the first
packet. test: UDP4RECVFROM_FORK
corrected a few mistakes that caused compiler warnings on 64bit hosts
(thanks to Jonathan Brannan e.a. for providing a patch)
EXEC and SYSTEM with stderr injected socat messages into the data
stream. test: EXECSTDERRLOG
when the EXEC address got a string with consecutive spaces it created
additional empty arguments (thanks to Olivier Hervieu for reporting
this bug). test: EXECSPACES
in ignoreeof polling mode socat also blocked data transfer in the other
direction during the 1s wait intervalls (thanks to Jorgen Cederlof for
reporting this bug)
corrected alphabetical order of options (proxy-auth)
some minor corrections
improved test.sh script: more stable timing, corrections for BSD
replaced the select() calls by poll() to cleanly fix the problems with
many file descriptors already open
socat option -lf did not log to file but to stderr
socat did not compile on Solaris when configured without termios
feature (thanks to Pavan Gadi for reporting this bug)
porting:
socat compiles and runs on AIX with gcc (thanks to Andi Mather for his
help)
socat compiles and runs on Cygwin (thanks to Jan Just Keijser for his
help)
socat compiles and runs on HP-UX with gcc (thanks to Michal Rysavy for
his help)
socat compiles and runs on MacOS X (thanks to Camillo Lugaresi for his
help)
further changes:
filan -s prefixes output with FD number if more than one FD
Makefile now supports datarootdir (thanks to Camillo Lugaresi for
providing the patch)
cleanup in xio-unix.c
####################### V 1.6.0.1:
new features:
new make target "gitclean"
docu source doc/socat.yo released
corrections:
exec:...,pty did not kill child process under some circumstances; fixed
by correcting typo in xio-progcall.c (thanks to Ralph Forsythe for
reporting this problem)
service name resolution failed due to byte order mistake
(thanks to James Sainsbury for reporting this problem)
socat would hang when invoked with many file descriptors already opened
fix: replaced FOPEN_MAX with FD_SETSIZE
thanks to Daniel Lucq for reporting this problem.
fixed bugs where sub processes would become zombies because the master
process did not catch SIGCHLD. this affected addresses UDP-LISTEN,
UDP-CONNECT, TCP-CONNECT, OPENSSL, PROXY, UNIX-CONNECT, UNIX-CLIENT,
ABSTRACT-CONNECT, ABSTRACT-CLIENT, SOCKSA, SOCKS4A
(thanks to Fernanda G Weiden for reporting this problem)
fixed a bug where sub processes would become zombies because the master
process caught SIGCHLD but did not wait(). this affected addresses
UDP-RECVFROM, IP-RECVFROM, UNIX-RECVFROM, ABSTRACT-RECVFROM
(thanks to Evan Borgstrom for reporting this problem)
corrected option handling with STDIO; usecase: cool-write
configure --disable-pty also disabled option waitlock
fixed small bugs on systems with struct ip_mreq without struct ip_mreqn
(thanks to Roland Illig for sending a patch)
corrected name of option intervall to interval (old form still valid
for us German speaking guys)
corrected some print statements and variable names
make uninstall did not uninstall procan
fixed lots of weaknesses in test.sh
corrected some bugs and typos in doc/socat.yo, EXAMPLES, C comments
further changes:
procan -c prints C defines important for socat
added test OPENSSLEOF for OpenSSL half close
####################### V 1.6.0.0:
new features:
new addresses IP-DATAGRAM and UDP-DATAGRAM allow versatile broadcast
and multicast modes
new option ip-add-membership for control of multicast group membership
new address TUN for generation of Linux TUN/TAP pseudo network
interfaces (suggested by Mat Caughron); associated options tun-device,
tun-name, tun-type; iff-up, iff-promisc, iff-noarp, iff-no-pi etc.
new addresses ABSTRACT-CONNECT, ABSTRACT-LISTEN, ABSTRACT-SENDTO,
ABSTRACT-RECV, and ABSTRACT-RECVFROM for abstract UNIX domain addresses
on Linux (requested by Zeeshan Ali); option unix-tightsocklen controls
socklen parameter on system calls.
option end-close for control of connection closing allows FD sharing
by sub processes
range option supports form address:mask with IPv4
changed behaviour of SSL-LISTEN to require and verify client
certificate per default
options f-setlkw-rd, f-setlkw-wr, f-setlk-rd, f-setlk-wr allow finer
grained locking on regular files
uninstall target in Makefile (lack reported by Zeeshan Ali)
corrections:
fixed bug where only first tcpwrap option was applied; fixed bug where
tcpwrap IPv6 check always failed (thanks to Rudolf Cejka for reporting
and fixing this bug)
filan (and socat -D) could hang when a socket was involved
corrected PTYs on HP-UX (and maybe others) using STREAMS (inspired by
Roberto Mackun)
correct bind with udp6-listen (thanks to Jan Horak for reporting this
bug)
corrected filan.c peekbuff[0] which did not compile with Sun Studio Pro
(thanks to Leo Zhadanovsky for reporting this problem)
corrected problem with read data buffered in OpenSSL layer (thanks to
Jon Nelson for reporting this bug)
corrected problem with option readbytes when input stream stayed idle
after so many bytes
fixed a bug where a datagram receiver with option fork could fork two
sub processes per packet
further changes:
moved documentation to new doc/ subdir
new documents (kind of mini tutorials) are provided in doc/
####################### V 1.5.0.0:
new features:
new datagram modes for udp, rawip, unix domain sockets
socat option -T specifies inactivity timeout
rewrote lexical analysis to allow nested socat calls
addresses tcp, udp, tcp-l, udp-l, and rawip now support IPv4 and IPv6
socat options -4, -6 and environment variables SOCAT_DEFAULT_LISTEN_IP,
SOCAT_PREFERRED_RESOLVE_IP for control of protocol selection
addresses ssl, ssl-l, socks, proxy now support IPv4 and IPv6
option protocol-family (pf), esp. for openssl-listen
range option supports IPv6 - syntax: range=[::1/128]
option ipv6-v6only (ipv6only)
new tcp-wrappers options allow-table, deny-table, tcpwrap-etc
FIPS version of OpenSSL can be integrated - initial patch provided by
David Acker. See README.FIPS
support for resolver options res-debug, aaonly, usevc, primary, igntc,
recurse, defnames, stayopen, dnsrch
options for file attributes on advanced filesystems (ext2, ext3,
reiser): secrm, unrm, compr, ext2-sync, immutable, ext2-append, nodump,
ext2-noatime, journal-data etc.
option cool-write controls severeness of write failure (EPIPE,
ECONNRESET)
option o-noatime
socat option -lh for hostname in log output
traffic dumping provides packet headers
configure.in became part of distribution
socats unpack directory now has full version, e.g. socat-1.5.0.0/
corrected docu of option verify
corrections:
fixed tcpwrappers integration - initial fix provided by Rudolf Cejka
exec with pipes,stderr produced error
setuid-early was ignored with many address types
some minor corrections
####################### V 1.4.3.1:
corrections:
PROBLEM: UNIX socket listen accepted only one (or a few) connections.
FIX: do not remove listening UNIX socket in child process
PROBLEM: SIGSEGV when TCP part of SSL connect failed
FIX: check ssl pointer before calling SSL_shutdown
In debug mode, show connect client port even when connect fails
####################### V 1.4.3.0:
new features:
socat options -L, -W for application level locking
options "lockfile", "waitlock" for address level locking
(Stefan Luethje)
option "readbytes" limits read length (Adam Osuchowski)
option "retry" for unix-connect, unix-listen, tcp6-listen (Dale Dude)
pty symlink, unix listen socket, and named pipe are per default removed
after use; option unlink-close overrides this new behaviour and also
controls removal of other socat generated files (Stefan Luethje)
corrections:
option "retry" did not work with tcp-listen
EPIPE condition could result in a 100% CPU loop
further changes:
support systems without SHUT_RD etc.
handle more size_t types
try to find makedepend options with gcc 3 (richard/OpenMacNews)
####################### V 1.4.2.0:
new features:
option "connect-timeout" limits wait time for connect operations
(requested by Giulio Orsero)
option "dhparam" for explicit Diffie-Hellman parameter file
corrections:
support for OpenSSL DSA certificates (Miika Komu)
create install directories before copying files (Miika Komu)
when exiting on signal, return status 128+signum instead of 1
on EPIPE and ECONNRESET, only issue a warning (Santiago Garcia
Mantinan)
-lu could cause a core dump on long messages
further changes:
modifications to simplify using socats features in applications
####################### V 1.4.1.0:
new features:
option "wait-slave" blocks open of pty master side until a client
connects, "pty-intervall" controls polling
option -h as synonym to -? for help (contributed by Christian
Lademann)
filan prints formatted time stamps and rdev (disable with -r)
redirect filan's output, so stdout is not affected (contributed by
Luigi Iotti)
filan option -L to follow symbolic links
filan shows termios control characters
corrections:
proxy address no longer performs unsolicited retries
filan -f no longer needs read permission to analyze a file (but still
needs access permission to directory, of course)
porting:
Option dsusp
FreeBSD options noopt, nopush, md5sig
OpenBSD options sack-disable, signature-enable
HP-UX, Solaris options abort-threshold, conn-abort-threshold
HP-UX options b900, b3600, b7200
Tru64/OSF1 options keepinit, paws, sackena, tsoptena
further corrections:
address pty now uses ptmx as default if openpty is also available
####################### V 1.4.0.3:
security:
CVE-2004-1484:
fix to a syslog() based format string vulnerability that can lead to
remote code execution. See advisory socat-adv-1.txt
####################### V 1.4.0.2:
corrections:
exec'd write-only addresses get a chance to flush before being killed
error handler: print notice on error-exit
filan printed wrong file type information
####################### V 1.4.0.1:
corrections:
socks4a constructed invalid header. Problem found, reported, and fixed
by Thomas Themel, by Peter Palfrader, and by rik
with nofork, don't forget to apply some process related options
(chroot, setsid, setpgid, ...)
####################### V 1.4.0.0:
new features:
simple openssl server (ssl-l), experimental openssl trust
new options "cafile", "capath", "key", "cert", "egd", and "pseudo" for
openssl
new options "retry", "forever", and "intervall"
option "fork" for address TCP improves `gender changer´
options "sigint", "sigquit", and "sighup" control passing of signals to
sub process (thanks to David Shea who contributed to this issue)
readline takes respect to the prompt issued by the peer address
options "prompt" and "noprompt" allow to override readline's new
default behaviour
readline supports invisible password with option "noecho"
socat option -lp allows to set hostname in log output
socat option -lu turns on microsecond resolution in log output
corrections:
before reading available data, check if writing on other channel is
possible
tcp6, udp6: support hostname specification (not only IP address), and
map IP4 names to IP6 addresses
openssl client checks server certificate per default
support unidirectional communication with exec/system subprocess
try to restore original terminal settings when terminating
test.sh uses tmp dir /tmp/$USER/$$ instead of /tmp/$$
socks4 failed on platforms where long does not have 32 bits
(thanks to Peter Palfrader and Thomas Seyrat)
hstrerror substitute wrote wrong messages (HP-UX, Solaris)
proxy error message was truncated when answer contained multiple spaces
porting:
compiles with AIX xlc, HP-UX cc, Tru64 cc (but might not link)
####################### V 1.3.2.2:
corrections:
PROXY CONNECT failed when the status reply from the proxy server
contained more than one consecutive spaces. Problem reported by
Alexandre Bezroutchko
do not SIGSEGV when proxy address fails to resolve server name
udp-listen failed on systems where AF_INET != SOCK_DGRAM (e.g. SunOS).
Problem reported by Christoph Schittel
test.sh only tests available features
added missing IP and TCP options in filan analyzer
do not apply stdio address options to both directions when in
unidirectional mode
on systems lacking /dev/*random and egd, provide (weak) entropy from
libc random()
porting:
changes for HP-UX (VREPRINT, h_NETDB_INTERNAL)
compiles on True64, FreeBSD (again), NetBSD, OpenBSD
support for long long as st_ino type (Cygwin 1.5)
compile on systems where pty can not be featured
####################### V 1.3.2.1:
corrections:
"final" solution for the ENOCHLD problem
corrected "make strip"
default gcc debug/opt is "-O" again
check for /proc at runtime, even if configure found it
src.rpm accidently supported SuSE instead of RedHat
####################### V 1.3.2.0:
new features:
option "nofork" connects an exec'd script or program directly
to the file descriptors of the other address, circumventing the socat
transfer engine
support for files >2GB, using ftruncate64(), lseek64(), stat64()
filan has new "simple" output style (filan -s)
porting:
options "binary" and "text" for controlling line termination on Cygwin
file system access (hint from Yang Wu-Zhou)
fix by Yang Wu-Zhou for the Cygwin "No Children" problem
improved support for OSR: _SVID3; no IS_SOCK, no F_GETOWN (thanks to
John DuBois)
minor corrections to avoid warnings with gcc 3
further corrections and minor improvements:
configure script is generated with autoconf 2.57 (no longer 2.52)
configure passes CFLAGS to Makefile
option -??? for complete list of address options and their short forms
program name in syslog messages is derived from argv[0]
SIGHUP now prints notice instead of error
EIO during read of pty now gives Notice instead of Error, and
triggers EOF
use of hstrerror() for printing resolver error messages
setgrent() got required endgrent()
####################### V 1.3.1.0:
new features:
integration of Wietse Venema's tcpwrapper library (libwrap)
with "proxy" address, option "resolve" controls if hostname or IP
address is sent in request
option "lowport" establishes limited authorization for TCP and UDP
connections
improvement of .spec file for RPM creation (thanks to Gerd v. Egidy)
An accompanying change in the numbering scheme results in an
incompatibility with earlier socat RPMs!
solved problems and bugs:
PROBLEM: socat daemon terminated when the address of a connecting
client did not match range option value instead of continue listening
SOLVED: in this case, print warning instead of error to keep daemon
active
PROBLEM: tcp-listen with fork sometimes left excessive number of zombie
processes
SOLVED: dont assume that each exiting child process generates SIGCHLD
when converting CRNL to CR, socat converted to NL
further corrections:
configure script now disables features that depend on missing files
making it more robust in "unsupported" environments
server.pem permissions corrected to 600
"make install" now does not strip; use "make strip; make install"
if you like strip (suggested by Peter Bray)
####################### V 1.3.0.1:
solved problems and bugs:
PROBLEM: OPENSSL did not apply tcp, ip, and socket options
SOLVED: OPENSSL now correctly handles the options list
PROBLEM: CRNL to NL and CRNL to CR conversions failed when CRNL crossed
block boundary
SOLVED: these conversions now simply strip all CR's or NL's from input
stream
porting:
SunOS ptys now work on x86, too (thanks to Peter Bray)
configure looks for freeware libs in /pkgs/lib/ (thanks to Peter Bray)
further corrections:
added WITH_PROXY value to -V output
added compile dependencies of WITH_PTY and WITH_PROXY
-?? did not print option group of proxy options
corrected syntax for bind option in docu
corrected an issue with stdio in unidirectional mode
options socksport and proxyport support service names
ftp.sh script supports proxy address
man page no longer installed with execute permissions (thanks to Peter
Bray)
fixed a malloc call bug that could cause SIGSEGV or false "out of
memory" errors on EXEC and SYSTEM, depending on program name length and
libc.
####################### V 1.3.0.0:
new features:
proxy connect with optional proxy authentication
combined hex and text dump mode, credits to Gregory Margo
address pty applies options user, group, and perm to device
solved problems and bugs:
PROBLEM: option reuseport was not applied (BSD, AIX)
SOLVED: option reuseport now in phase PASTSOCKET instead of PREBIND,
credits to Jean-Baptiste Marchand
PROBLEM: ignoreeof with stdio was ignored
SOLVED: ignoreeof now works correctly with address stdio
PROBLEM: ftp.sh did not use user supplied password
SOLVED: ftp.sh now correctly passes password from command line
PROBLEM: server.pem had expired
SOLVED: new server.pem valid for ten years
PROBLEM: socks notice printed wrong port on some platforms
SOLVED: socks now uses correct byte-order for port number in notice
further corrections:
option name o_trunc corrected to o-trunc
combined use of -u and -U is now detected and prevented
made message system a little more robust against format string attacks
####################### V 1.2.0.0:
new features:
address pty for putting socat behind a new pseudo terminal that may
fake a serial line, modem etc.
experimental openssl integration
(it does not provide any trust between the peers because is does not
check certificates!)
options flock-ex, flock-ex-nb, flock-sh, flock-sh-nb to control all
locking mechanism provided by flock()
options setsid and setpgid now available with all address types
option ctty (controlling terminal) now available for all TERMIOS
addresses
option truncate (a hybrid of open(.., O_TRUNC) and ftruncate()) is
replaced by options o-trunc and ftruncate=offset
option sourceport now available with TCP and UDP listen addresses to
restrict incoming client connections
unidirectional mode right-to-left (-U)
solved problems and bugs:
PROBLEM: addresses without required parameters but an option containing
a '/' were incorrectly interpreted as implicit GOPEN address
SOLVED: if an address does not have ':' separator but contains '/',
check if the slash is before the first ',' before assuming
implicit GOPEN.
porting:
ptys under SunOS work now due to use of stream options
further corrections:
with -d -d -d -d -D, don't print debug info during file analysis
####################### V 1.1.0.1:
new features:
.spec file for RPM generation
solved problems and bugs:
PROBLEM: GOPEN on socket did not apply option unlink-late
SOLUTION: GOPEN for socket now applies group NAMED, phase PASTOPEN
options
PROBLEM: with unidirectional mode, an unnecessary close timeout was
applied
SOLUTION: in unidirectional mode, terminate without wait time
PROBLEM: using GOPEN on a unix domain socket failed for datagram
sockets
SOLUTION: when connect() fails with EPROTOTYPE, use a datagram socket
further corrections:
open() flag options had names starting with "o_", now corrected to "o-"
in docu, *-listen addresses were called *_listen
address unix now called unix-connect because it does not handle unix
datagram sockets
in test.sh, apply global command line options with all tests
####################### V 1.1.0.0:
new features:
regular man page and html doc - thanks to kromJx for prototype
new address type "readline", utilizing GNU readline and history libs
address option "history-file" for readline
new option "dash" to "exec" address that allows to start login shells
syslog facility can be set per command line option
new address option "tcp-quickack", found in Linux 2.4
option -g prevents option group checking
filan and procan can print usage
procan prints rlimit infos
solved problems and bugs:
PROBLEM: raw IP socket SIGSEGV'ed when it had been shut down.
SOLVED: set eof flag of channel on shutdown.
PROBLEM: if channel 2 uses a single non-socket FD in bidirectional mode
and has data available while channel 1 reaches EOF, the data is
lost.
SOLVED: during one loop run, first handle all data transfers and
_afterwards_ handle EOF.
PROBLEM: despite to option NONBLOCK, the connect() call blocked
SOLVED: option NONBLOCK is now applied in phase FD instead of LATE
PROBLEM: UNLINK options issued error when file did not exist,
terminating socat
SOLVED: failure of unlink() is only warning if errno==ENOENT
PROBLEM: TCP6-LISTEN required numeric port specification
SOLVED: now uses common TCP service resolver
PROBLEM: with PIPE, wrong FDs were shown for data transfer loop
SOLVED: retrieval of FDs now pays respect to PIPE pecularities
PROBLEM: using address EXEC against an address with IGNOREEOF, socat
never terminated
SOLVED: corrected EOF handling of sigchld
porting:
MacOS and old AIX versions now have pty
flock() now available on Linux (configure check was wrong)
named pipe were generated using mknod(), which requires root under BSD
now they are generated using mkfifo
further corrections:
lots of address options that were "forgotten" at runtime are now
available
option BINDTODEVICE now also called SO-BINDTODEVICE, IF
"make install" now installs binaries with ownership 0:0
####################### V 1.0.4.2:
solved problems and bugs:
PROBLEM: EOF of one stream caused close of other stream, giving it no
chance to go down regularly
SOLVED: EOF of one stream now causes shutdown of write part of other
stream
PROBLEM: sending mail via socks address to qmail showed that crlf
option does not work
SOLVED: socks address applies PH_LATE options
PROBLEM: in debug mode, no info about socat and platform was issued
SOLVED: print socat version and uname output in debug mode
PROBLEM: invoking socat with -t and no following parameters caused
SIGSEGV
SOLVED: -t and -b now check next argv entry
PROBLEM: when opening of logfile (-lf) failed, no error was reported
and no further messages were printed
SOLVED: check result of fopen and print error message if it failed
new features:
address type UDP-LISTEN now supports option fork: it internally applies
socket option SO_REUSEADDR so a new UDP socket can bind to port after
`accepting´ a connection (child processes might live forever though)
(suggestion from Damjan Lango)
####################### V 1.0.4.1:
solved problems and bugs:
PROB: assert in libc caused an endless recursion
SOLVED: no longer catch SIGABRT
PROB: socat printed wrong verbose prefix for "right to left" packets
SOLVED: new parameter for xiotransfer() passes correct prefix
new features:
in debug mode, socat prints its command line arguments
in verbose mode, escape special characters and replace unprintables
with '.'. Patch from Adrian Thurston.
####################### V 1.0.4.0:
solved problems and bugs:
Debug output for lstat and fstat said "stat"
further corrections:
FreeBSD now includes libutil.h
new features:
option setsid with exec/pty
option setpgid with exec/pty
option ctty with exec/pty
TCP V6 connect test
gettimeofday in sycls.c (no use yet)
porting:
before Gethostbyname, invoke inet_aton for MacOSX
####################### V 1.0.3.0:
solved problems and bugs:
PROB: test 9 of test.sh (echo via file) failed on some platforms,
socat exited without error message
SOLVED: _xioopen_named_early(): preset statbuf.st_mode with 0
PROB: test 17 hung forever
REASON: child death before select loop did not result in EOF
SOLVED: check of existence of children before starting select loop
PROB: test 17 failed
REASON: child dead triggered EOF before last data was read
SOLVED: after child death, read last data before setting EOF
PROB: filan showed that exec processes incorrectly had fd3 open
REASON: inherited open fd3 from main process
SOLVED: set CLOEXEC flag on pty fd in main process
PROB: help printed "undef" instead of group "FORK"
SOLVED: added "FORK" to group name array
PROB: fatal messages did not include severity classifier
SOLVED: added "F" to severity classifier array
PROB: IP6 addresses where printed incorrectly
SOLVED: removed type casts to unsigned short *
further corrections:
socat catches illegal -l modes
corrected error message on setsockopt(linger)
option tabdly is of type uint
correction for UDP over IP6
more cpp conditionals, esp. for IP6 situations
better handling of group NAMED options with listening UNIX sockets
applyopts2 now includes last given phase
corrected option group handling for most address types
introduce dropping of unappliable options (dropopts, dropopts2)
gopen now accepts socket and unix-socket options
exec and system now accept all socket and termios options
child process for exec and system addresses with option pty
improved descriptions and options for EXAMPLES
printf format for file mode changed to "0%03o" with length spec.
added va_end() in branch of msg()
changed phase of lock options from PASTOPEN to FD
support up to four early dying processes
structural changes:
xiosysincludes now includes sysincludes.h for non xio files
new features:
option umask
CHANGES file
TYPE_DOUBLE, u_double
OFUNC_OFFSET
added getsid(), setsid(), send() to sycls
procan prints sid (session id)
mail.sh gets -f (from) option
new EXAMPLEs for file creation
gatherinfo.sh now tells about failures
test.sh can check for much more address/option combinations
porting:
ispeed, ospeed for termios on FreeBSD
getpgid() conditional for MacOS 10
added ranlib in Makefile.in for MacOS 10
disable pty option if no pty mechanism is available (MacOS 10)
now compiles and runs on MacOS 10 (still some tests fail)
setgroups() conditional for cygwin
sighandler_t defined conditionally
use gcc option -D_GNU_SOURCE