kde-misc/networkmanagement does not tell OpenVPN to perform server certificate verification. Consequently, anyone with the preshared key is able to perform a MITM attack by impersonating the server. OpenVPN warns about this each time a tunnel is created by networkmanager-openvpn: Nov 17 22:40:56 t520 nm-openvpn[29005]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info. This issue has been around for years and is also present in kde-misc/plasma-nm, which is bug #531070. Upstream has written a patch that fixes this in release 0.9.0.12: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341387 http://commits.kde.org/networkmanagement/918786c28f7657ad8deff084ae44a257a7d471f6
+ + 07 Mar 2015; Johannes Huber <johu@gentoo.org> + +networkmanagement-0.9.0.12.ebuild, + -files/networkmanagement-0.9.0.11-openconnect7.patch, + -networkmanagement-0.9.0.11-r1.ebuild, networkmanagement-0.9.0.11.ebuild: + Version bump, fixes bug #531304. + Arches please stabilize =kde-misc/networkmanagement-0.9.0.12
amd64 stable
x86 stable. Maintainer(s), please cleanup. Security, please vote.
Cleanup done.
GLSA vote: no.
GLSA Vote: No, closing noglsa