Upgrading stunnel - Amazon Elastic File System

Upgrading stunnel

Encryption of data in transit with the EFS mount helper requires OpenSSL version 1.0.2 or newer, and a version of stunnel that supports both Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and certificate hostname checking. The EFS mount helper uses the stunnel program for its TLS functionality. Note that some versions of Linux don't include a version of stunnel that supports these TLS features by default. When using one of those Linux distributions, mounting an EFS file system using TLS fails.

After installing the EFS mount helper, you can upgrade your system's version of stunnel with the following instructions.

To upgrade stunnel on Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, and other supported Linux distributions (except for SLES 12)

  1. In a web browser, go to the stunnel downloads page https://stunnel.org/downloads.html.

  2. Locate the latest stunnel version that is available in tar.gz format. Note the name of the file as you will need it in the following steps.

  3. Open a terminal on your Linux client, and run the following commands in the order presented.

    1. For RPM:

      sudo yum install -y gcc openssl-devel tcp_wrappers-devel

      For DEB:

      sudo apt-get install build-essential libwrap0-dev libssl-dev

    2. Replace latest-stunnel-version with the name of the file you noted previously in Step 2.

      sudo curl -o latest-stunnel-version.tar.gz https://www.stunnel.org/downloads/latest-stunnel-version.tar.gz
    3. sudo tar xvfz latest-stunnel-version.tar.gz
    4. cd latest-stunnel-version/
    5. sudo ./configure
    6. sudo make

    7. The current stunnel package is installed in bin/stunnel. So that the new version can be installed, remove that directory with the following command.

      sudo rm /bin/stunnel

    8. Install the latest version:

      sudo make install

    9. Create a symlink:

      sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/stunnel /bin/stunnel
To upgrade stunnel on macOS

  • Open a terminal on your EC2 Mac instance, and run the following command to upgrade to the latest version of stunnel.

    brew upgrade stunnel
Upgrading stunnel for SLES 12

  • Run the following commands and follow the zypper package manager instructions to upgrade stunnel on your compute instance running SLES12.

    sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:Stunnel/SLE_12_SP5/security:Stunnel.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install -y stunnel

After you've installed a version of stunnel with the required features, you can mount your file system using TLS with the Amazon EFS recommended settings.