Bug#908303: ghostscript: CVE-2018-16543

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: ghostscript
Version: 9.20~dfsg-3.2
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream
Justification: user security hole
Forwarded: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699670
Control: fixed -1 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for ghostscript.

CVE-2018-16543[0]:
| In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution
| allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.

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-2018-16543
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16543
[1] http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=5b5536fa88a9e885032bc0df3852c3439399a5c0

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore