Fedora 14 Update: macchanger-1.5.0-9.fc14

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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 at 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/.

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