Re: DSA-3708-1 mat -- security update (What are MAT users to do)?
Hi,
gwmfms06@unseen.is:
> This email is in response to www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3708
> I relied on MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) on a daily basis to remove the
> metadata from PDFs as it is a requirement for my job. I must have this ability.
> I appreciate the effort to fix this bug but it was not a major issue for me because
> the PDFs I encounter did not have images. Now that MAT cannot deal with PDFs at all,
> I am forced to use Windows (which I hate) because I cannot find a suitable
> alternative to MAT.
I'm sorry about that. FYI this affects me as well as a lot of Tails users.
> Can anyone please suggest a Debian solution to my current problem?
I'm not aware of any :/
> I am assuming that Debian Stretch Stable (2017 release) will have an
> updated version of MAT that will again process PDFs?
This is unlikely, but who knows: perhaps someone will show up and
contribute patches upstream (https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11067).
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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