Your message dated Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:00:06 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#738460: fixed in macchanger 1.7.0-1.1 has caused the Debian Bug report #738460, regarding macchanger: Randomization fails for final three octets to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---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 [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]> (supplier of updated macchanger package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 <[email protected]> Changed-By: Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]> 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) Checksums-Sha1: 9adae5b5ed19e63010100ac71c4597eb18c24277 1879 macchanger_1.7.0-1.1.dsc 38007e0acda934e519e18fa0c11901954d11f62a 17372 macchanger_1.7.0-1.1.debian.tar.xz 8b3a230bd8349eb438f24009981c13887c6c6967 187664 macchanger_1.7.0-1.1_amd64.deb Checksums-Sha256: 7df05a553a11687361fe1fb5670c707dffa2e180a541ed8e54e3bccac58945b0 1879 macchanger_1.7.0-1.1.dsc cd11623f0fd241dd7e43cf310ee21e5c1ee1d7e9be442fc779fc1afe40da5d38 17372 macchanger_1.7.0-1.1.debian.tar.xz 9ca86c36e07beecd96f3cc1e611c66ba1a71ad4a7ceae83ad1a0a139e5eadd13 187664 macchanger_1.7.0-1.1_amd64.deb Files: 3e4cb5b631cf4a40b9d74104f1c18a83 187664 net extra macchanger_1.7.0-1.1_amd64.deb d905e1e67396fa3805e43e826250b9e2 1879 net extra macchanger_1.7.0-1.1.dsc ce4bbf069007588911e4bb78a397d442 17372 net extra macchanger_1.7.0-1.1.debian.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJT2BiMAAoJEHt7QK0Pgdk70KgP/2TDDf1gsFIDzYKEaU5nSX/s WQeCjuI7JLfHcb4uUv7VRAOKHWXP6RHgc/z+Gsr/M6100EcwbOEoXW1zSD2EOwvH 6zFthX2BPbH7aNoV43f90WeCD/fL7gUX4cjvzAskwiyKYn+UAqXWoAPGYvG5A62F odAkrQkMBwLWpPmy6MaQM0QMxd3d48sY8RHvutX7THoyDPNtbpXVvG7Hxi0xrrlY 9GpdV491DUutJj5TQF8D9mUQL4fztaUf3tBSUhS0/eMKihixa8Y8ALBsn6lkeLoy yAK41LWUsIAQNKAF43HHXFH2IG/vWwuG//QvLraXsn8bNYlBoE6BFlaYmzEf8RU0 ElFwqNKqM8YLhAgOMS0JBmRCepz2DCdjqL3LmH01ed8FOhXQ1LfrKX0VpgPJN2eJ xBhQLKypg19c02jQsVJWBk4YRYam3crPmr8yJiXQjF+HlnRIRbcarvgSJCguKnXR 4tAL/+hbcqDkt9BSfXY9fDKswiUNU4bdF4QqaqOrcEazq2L79jGdpK/Sle2N8oa1 DEiL1Texv2B2XLmMD6UZ5I3IEw5n0J1cnHNn1oic4JSofwToJaKZDlvXSQJvkdUk AHfYLAZC0Y0Amc1V8fXnDvy5Ogrt57vBRKqwAHV6GrYB4l3PfUT70MhvpB84Lczl BFul/3KkeLrNM2p76oWf =4VB1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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