When activating OpenVPN without DHCP6, random traffic will be routed without VPN

Description of problem:
When activating OpenVPN without DHCP6, random traffic will be routed without VPN if the basic physical network device has IPv6 connectivity. This is a security issue, since a user activating the VPN would expect all go through it. When I activate a VPN that doesn't support V6, obviously V6 routes need to be removed entirely to ensure everything goes through the VPN as the user would expect.

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Thanks to #1228427 it appears I can't easily use OpenVPN through the networkmanager gui in this wifi network *at all*. That sucks, it would be really awesome if you could do something to fix that..

This is indeed an interesting problem also described in bug #1091356 that is not specific to NetworkManager. A machine with IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity and IPv4 VPN connectivity with IPv4 and IPv6 DNS information from the VPN will always attempt to reach hosts via IPv6.

> This is a security issue, since a user activating the VPN would expect all go through it.

There are two issues, actually:

1) Serving IPv6 DNS records and providing VPN access without IPv6 at the same time is a security problem in the first place. Clients that only use VPN for resources on the network are thus not informed about the IPv6 subnets that constitute resources on the network.

Solutions (on the network operator side):

a) Avoid IPv4-only VPNs and only provide IPv4+IPv6 VPNs.

b) Don't provide IPv6 DNS records on IPv4-only VPNs (and vice versa).

2) When VPN is to be used for all (except local) resources and only IPv4 connectivity is available on the VPN, there should IMO be no IPv6 default route through the local router just as there is no IPv4 default route through the local router.

From the network configuration point of view the second issue is as follows...

Expected result:

 * IPv4 default route through VPN
 * IPv6 default route absent (as VPN doesn't provide any)

Actual result (as I understand the bug report):

 * IPv4 default route through VPN (good)
 * IPv6 default route via local gateway (bad)

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Still present in Fedora 22

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
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Was this ever fixed? I currently don't have a VPN configured, but this is quite a dangerous issue (for people who rely on VPN privacy with their life which isn't unheard of) so it shouldn't just get lost.

Still present in Fedora 27

If VPN server does not provide IPv6 support, IPv6 traffic is not blocked but routed outside of the VPN.

This is definitely a VPN leak.

This bug has been reported against a Fedora version which is already unsuported.
In compliance with FESCo decision how to handle EOL of Security issues [1],
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[1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1736