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.
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