Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3708-1 mat -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 07 Nov 2016
- Affected Packages:
- mat
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 826101.
- More information:
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Hartmut Goebel discovered that MAT, a toolkit to anonymise/remove metadata from files did not remove metadata from images embededed in PDF documents.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-3+deb8u1. This update disables PDF support in MAT entirely.
We recommend that you upgrade your mat packages.