Bug#924598: checkstyle: CVE-2019-9658: loads external DTDs by default

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: checkstyle
Version: 8.15-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for checkstyle.

CVE-2019-9658[0]:
| Checkstyle before 8.18 loads external DTDs by default.

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-2019-9658
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9658
[1] https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6474
[2] https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6478
[3] https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/6476

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore