[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1079174: network-manager-openvpn-gnome: Network Manager Applet displays incorrect VPN status

[Jack Underwood]

Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Version: 1.10.2-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: juichenieder-debbie at yahoo.co.uk

Dear Maintainer,
The Gnome NetworkManager Applet incorrectly often displays an active VPN (icon
on the systray, text when hovering over systray says "VPN connection active",
and checkbox checked in menu).  This exists as a security risk if people think
that they use a working VPN connection when in fact they do not.

There exist at least two parts to this bug, one reproducible, and one semi-
reproducible.

For the reproducible part, steps to reproduce:
1. Turn computer on.
2. Click on systray icon and select a VPN connection from the menu.
3. after a brief moment of trying to connect, NetworkManager Applet displays
that I have connected even though when I check this via a website such as
ip.me, or an app like traceroute, I have not.

This happens every time I restart my computer, and in order to connect to the
VPN I first need to disconnect my ethernet connection in NetworkManager Applet,
and then start it again from the menu.  Then I can connect to the VPN.

What should happen:
1. Turn computer on.
2. Click on systray icon and select a VPN connection from the menu.
3. If I have not successfully connected to the VPN, NetworkManager Applet
should display this.

As for the semi-reproducible part, every so often I find that I have
disconnected from my VPN whilst the NetworkManager Applet still displays.  I
notice that this sometimes happen after I have lost my internet connection, I
can not feel certain if this exists as the only reason why I have lost my VPN
connection, and I have a feeling that sometimes after an internet dropout and
subsequent loss of VPN connection that the NetworkManager Applet does show a
correct no-VPN status, but I feel unsure of this.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-22-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.36-9+deb12u7
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.74.6-2+deb12u3
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.24.38-2~deb12u1
ii  libgtk-4-1               4.8.3+ds-2+deb12u1
ii  libnm0                   1.42.4-1
ii  libnma-gtk4-0            1.10.6-1
ii  libnma0                  1.10.6-1
ii  libsecret-1-0            0.20.5-3
ii  network-manager-openvpn  1.10.2-2

network-manager-openvpn-gnome recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn-gnome suggests no packages.

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