This update for ghostscript fixes several security issues:

- CVE-2017-9835: The gs_alloc_ref_array function allowed remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or
possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document
(bsc#1050879).
- CVE-2017-9216: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get
function in jbig2_huffman.c which allowed for DoS (bsc#1040643).
- CVE-2016-10317: The fill_threshhold_buffer function in base/gxht_thresh.c
allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer
overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a
crafted PostScript document (bsc#1032230).
- CVE-2017-9612: The Ins_IP function in base/ttinterp.c allowed remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash)
or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document (bsc#1050891).
- CVE-2017-9726: The Ins_MDRP function in base/ttinterp.c allowed remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and
application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
document (bsc#1050889).
- CVE-2017-9727: The gx_ttfReader__Read function in base/gxttfb.c allowed
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and
application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
document (bsc#1050888).
- CVE-2017-9739: The Ins_JMPR function in base/ttinterp.c allowed remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and
application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
document (bsc#1050887).
- CVE-2017-11714: psi/ztoken.c mishandled references to the scanner state
structure, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
PostScript document, related to an out-of-bounds read in the
igc_reloc_struct_ptr function in psi/igc.c (bsc#1051184).
- CVE-2016-10219: The intersect function in base/gxfill.c allowed remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application
crash) via a crafted file (bsc#1032138).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.