CVE-2017-9149

CVE-2017-9149 affects Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) versions 0.6 and 0.6.1. The issue is that MAT silently fails to perform the required “Clean metadata” action when invoked from the Nautilus contextual menu, enabling a context-dependent attacker to read a file for which cleaning had been ...

CVE-2017-9149

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit MAT 0.6 and 0.6.1 silently fails to perform "Clean metadata" actions upon invocation from the Nautilus contextual menu, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a file for which cleaning had been attempted...

Debian DLA-650-1 : mat security update

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...

MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit

MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit What is metadata? Metadata consists of information that characterizes data e.g. Word documents, pictures, music files, etc. In essence, metadata answers who, what, when, where, why, and how about every facet of the data that is being characterized. Why metadata...

How To Remove File Metadata

How To Remove File Metadata For those of you who want to remove file metadata from any shared data, you can use existing document or image editor software which typically have built-in metadata editing capability. In this tutorial, we will introduce a standalone metadata cleaner tool which is...