Debian DLA-650-1 : mat security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 93913

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An implementation flaw was discovered in mat, the metadata anonymisation toolkit. The implementation of PDF support lacks support to anonymize the metadata in embedded images. As there is no easy fix for this flaw, it was decided that PDF support will be removed altogether from mat for the time being.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.2-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mat packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected mat package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/10/msg00006.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/mat

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93913

File Name: debian_DLA-650.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mat, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2016