Thursday 15 October 2015

Building git 2.6 and enabling TLS 1.2 on CentOS 7

There are scenarios where TLS 1.2 is not just enabled, but the only one accepted.
In these cases many clients fail to connect over HTTPS.
I needed to be able to use 'git clone https://...' on CentOS 7, and since it was failing and I spent some time on a work around, I'm sharing it here.

The system is a CentOS 7 host on DigitalOcean, with kernel


Linux 3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64

git is 1.8.3, the stock version
nss is 3.19.1-5.el7_1

If I do something like

curl  --tlsv1.2 https://freeswitch.org

the connection is successful, but a command like

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone https://freeswitch.org/stash/scm/fs/freeswitch.git


was giving a connection error with this code:

NSS error -12190 (SSL_ERROR_PROTOCOL_VERSION_ALERT)
(freeswitch.org only accepts TLSv1.2).


Long story short, I read somewhere that git 2.6 had support for configuring TLSv1.2, and I downloaded the source code of git 2.6.0 from https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

Built, installed, added to my .gitconfig this:

[http] 
sslVersion = tlsv1.2

but no cigar.

So I dug in the code and commented out a dependency for a version of libcurl in http.c (I'm commenting out the #if - #endif):

  //GV#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x072200           { "tlsv1.0", CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_0 },           { "tlsv1.1", CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_1 },           { "tlsv1.2", CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_2 }, 
//GV#endif



Rebuilt and reinstalled, and this time it worked fine.



3 comments:

  1. great, it works for my redhatel-6.5

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  2. Thanks for the tip, it lead me to "yum update curl" which worked for me on Rhel 6.

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  3. Thanks Jan for taking the time to confirm.
    Cheers,
    Giacomo

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