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Message-ID: <20160602180240.GA23506@layer-acht.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 18:02:40 +0000
From: Holger Levsen <holger@...er-acht.org>
To: cve-assign@...re.org
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: mat doesn't remove metadata in embedded images in
PDFs
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 12:21:34PM -0400, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> We think you mean that a CVE ID can exist with the rationale of:
>
> - as of version 0.7, there will be a required security update in
> which the embedded-in-a-PDF security problem is resolved
>
> - the CVE ID is needed to tag that required security update
>
> - as of version 0.7, the https://mat.boum.org/ text may be changed
> from "images embedded inside PDF may not be cleaned" to something
> like "images embedded inside complex documents may not be cleaned,
> but users can rely on cleaning in the specific case of PDF
> documents"
>
> Does that match your intention for the CVE ID?
yes.
Though I disagree with the 3rd paragraph a bit, I don't think it's that
hard to recursivly process files, eg both
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/strip-nondeterminism (in perl) and
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/diffoscope (in python) do that.
--
cheers,
Holger
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