Source: ghostscript Version: 9.20~dfsg-3 Severity: important Tags: patch security upstream
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for ghostscript. CVE-2016-10220[0]: | The gs_makewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex | Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a | denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via | a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10220 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10220 [1] https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450 [2] http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=daf85701dab05f17e924a48a81edc9195b4a04e8 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
