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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-18109
2010-11-23 21:24:12
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Name : macchanger
Product : Fedora 14
Version : 1.5.0
Release : 9.fc14
URL :
http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger
Summary : An utility for viewing/manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces
Description :
Features:
* set specific MAC address of a network interface
* set the MAC randomly
* set a MAC of another vendor
* set another MAC of the same vendor
* set a MAC of the same kind (eg: wireless card)
* display a vendor MAC list (more than 14000 items) to choose from
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Update Information:
* Avoid buffer overflow in command line argument handling code.
* Update OUI list.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Oct 11 2010 Tomas Hoger <thoger(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.0-9
- Fix buffer overflow when excessively long device name is specified as
command line argument (caught by FORTIFY_SOURCE, RHBZ#641704)
- Add Debian patch fixing exit code for certain error conditions, see
Debian bug
http://bugs.debian.org/547596
- Update OUI list from IEEE, now more than 14000 items listed
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #641704 - [abrt] crash in macchanger-1.5.0-8.fc12: __libc_message: Process
/usr/bin/macchanger was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update macchanger' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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