[Secure-testing-team] Bug#859694: ghostscript: CVE-2016-10220

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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