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and subject line Bug#740947: fixed in macchanger 1.7.0-1.1
has caused the Debian Bug report #740947,
regarding macchanger: Randomization fails for final three octets
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Package: macchanger
Version: 1.7.0-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The recent upgrade of the macchanger package to version 1.7 introduces
a seriious, if simple bug: the package no longer randomizes the
user(final) three octects of the six octet mac address. Only the
vendor string three octects seem to be able to be randomizaed.
For example:
macchanger -e -- does not change mac address at all
macchnager -A -- only changes vendor three octects
macchanger -a -- only changes vendor three octects
macchanger -a -- only changes vendor three octects
macchanger -m 00:00:00:00:00:77 <interface> works
macchnager -A -- only changes vendor three octects
ie. now retains 00:00:77, does not
revert to original user string
I've registered this bug as important for the benefit of users who use
a randomized mac address as one part of an effort to maintain some
level of online anonymity and privacy.
I will try to contact the upstream maintainer, but in the recent past
my correspondence has been unanswered.
I've updated my own script mac_changer_choice to include this
function, as well as other features not in macchanger (at least, not
yet).
https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/mac_changer_choice
Reards,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages macchanger depends on:
ii dpkg 1.17.6
ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
ii libc6 2.17-97
macchanger recommends no packages.
macchanger suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: macchanger
Source-Version: 1.7.0-1.1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
macchanger, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 740...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> (supplier of updated macchanger package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:32:38 -0400
Source: macchanger
Binary: macchanger
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.7.0-1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: David Paleino <da...@debian.org>
Changed-By: Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
Description:
macchanger - utility for manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces
Closes: 738460 740947
Changes:
macchanger (1.7.0-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Fix a grave security bug -- the macchanger program was fundamentally
not working correctly due to a bug in the debian local patch
08-fix_random_MAC_choice.patch. In fact, it was **breaking** the
random MAC choice!?! (Closes: #738460, #740947)
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