Bug#1053467: network-manager-openconnect-gnome: No option to specify UserAgent header in GUI

Florian Echtler

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Oct 4, 2023, 12:40:05 PM10/4/23

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Package: network-manager-openconnect-gnome
Version: 1.2.6-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: fl...@butterbrot.org

Dear Maintainer,

our Cisco VPN apparently got upgraded a few days ago and now requires a
specific UserAgent
header to still allow clients to connect, e.g. using the string "AnyConnect
Windows 4.10.04071".

There is an upstream patch that fixes this issue, adding a UI field for the
user agent string:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-
openconnect/-/commit/b5e154c06fd9013a925f85c2aa38d88e4ee53db0

I've verified that this patch works on 1.2.6; I'd suggest to add this into at
least buster-backports
and bullseye-backports, and perhaps also into 1.2.8 on bookworm, if applicable
(AFAICT this patch has
not yet been merged upstream).

Thanks and best, Florian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers jammy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'jammy-updates'), (500, 'jammy-security'), (500, 'jammy'), (100, 'jammy-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-67-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.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-openconnect-gnome depends on:
ii libc6 2.35-0ubuntu3.4
ii libgcr-base-3-1 3.40.0-4
ii libgcr-ui-3-1 3.40.0-4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.72.4-0ubuntu2.2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.33-1ubuntu2
ii libnm0 1.36.6-0ubuntu2
ii libopenconnect5 8.20-1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.20.5-2
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.74.2-3
ii libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
ii libxml2 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.3
ii network-manager-openconnect 1.2.6-4

network-manager-openconnect-gnome recommends no packages.

network-manager-openconnect-gnome suggests no packages.

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Salvatore Bonaccorso

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Nov 14, 2023, 8:10:05 AM11/14/23

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Hi

I parepared a backport of a series of three commits for it, for
bookworm and have lightly tested it. It seems to work and as such I
would like to propose an update for the upcoming point release.

Luca, is this fine with you? Can you peer-review the debdiff?

Regards,
Salvatore

network-manager-openconnect_1.2.8-3+deb12u1.debdiff

Luca Boccassi

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Nov 14, 2023, 8:30:05 AM11/14/23

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Hi, sounds good to me, but please send a MR on Salsa (without
d/changelog changes, I use gbp) - I've prepared a debian/bookworm
branch for this. Then I can do a p-u upload.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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Salvatore Bonaccorso

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Nov 14, 2023, 9:10:06 AM11/14/23

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Hi Luca,

Thanks!

Here is the MR accordingly with the debian/changelog entries dropped:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/network-manager-openconnect/-/merge_requests/6

Regards,
Salvatore

Luca Boccassi

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Nov 14, 2023, 9:50:05 AM11/14/23

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Uploaded to p-u - would you mind filing the release team bug for it,
please? That way you can add some details on how you tested it.
Thanks!

Salvatore Bonaccorso

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Nov 14, 2023, 11:00:06 AM11/14/23

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Hi Luca,

Sure, will do. Thanks for the upload!

Regards,
Salvatore