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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-febe36c3ac Security Fixes for OpenJDK 8

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security updates released for Fedora 31, addressing vulnerabilities in java-1.8.0-openjdk 8u272 and improving security.
New in release OpenJDK 8u272 (2020-10-20): notes can be found at: * https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-October/012817.html * https://builds.shipilev.net/backports-mo...

Summary

The OpenJDK runtime environment 8.

New in release OpenJDK 8u272 (2020-10-20):

=========================================== Full versions of these release

notes can be found at: * https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-October/012817.html *

https://builds.shipilev.net/backports-monitor/release-notes-openjdk8u272.txt ##

New features * JDK-8245468: Add TLSv1.3 implementation classes from 11.0.7 ##

Security fixes - JDK-8233624: Enhance JNI linkage - JDK-8236196: Improve

string pooling - JDK-8236862, CVE-2020-14779: Enhance support of Proxy class

- JDK-8237990, CVE-2020-14781: Enhanced LDAP contexts - JDK-8237995,

CVE-2020-14782: Enhance certificate processing - JDK-8240124: Better VM

Interning - JDK-8241114, CVE-2020-14792: Better range handling -JDK-8242680, CVE-2020-14796: Improved URI Support - JDK-8242685,

CVE-2020-14797: Better Path Validation - JDK-8242695, CVE-2020-14798: Enhanced

buffer support - JDK-8243302: Advanced class supports - JDK-8244136,

CVE-2020-14803: Improved Buffer supports - JDK-8244479: Further constrain

certificates - JDK-8244955: Additional Fix for JDK-8240124 - JDK-8245407:

Enhance zoning of times - JDK-8245412: Better class definitions -JDK-8245417: Improve certificate chain handling - JDK-8248574: Improve jpeg

processing - JDK-8249927: Specify limits of jdk.serialProxyInterfaceLimit -JDK-8253019: Enhanced JPEG decoding ## JDK-8254177: US/Pacific-New Zone name

removed as part of tzdata2020b Following JDK's update to tzdata2020b, the long-obsolete files pacificnew and systemv have been removed. As a result, the

"US/Pacific-New" zone name declared in the pacificnew data file is no longer

available for use. Information regarding the update can be viewed at

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-October/000059.html

* Wed Oct 21 2020 Andrew Hughes - 1:1.8.0.272.b10-0

- Update to aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u272-b10.

- Test build JDK is usable by running 'java -version'.

- JFR must now be explicitly disabled when unwanted (e.g. x86), following switch of upstream default.

- Remove JDK-8154313 backport now applied upstream.

- Change target from 'zip-docs' to 'docs-zip', which is the naming used upstream.

- Update tarball generation script to use PR3795, following inclusion of JDK-8177334

- Add additional s390 size_t case in g1ConcurrentMarkObjArrayProcessor.cpp introduced by JDK-8057003

- Add additional s390 log2_intptr case in shenandoahUtils.cpp introduced by JDK-8245464

- Update tarball generation script to use PR3799, following inclusion of JDK-8245468 (TLSv1.3)

- Update release notes for 8u272 release.

- Add backport of JDK-8254177 to update to tzdata 2020b

- Require tzdata 2020b due to resource changes in JDK-8254177

- Temporarily roll back tzdata build requirement while tzdata update is still in testing

- Adjust JDK-8062808/PR3548 following constantPool.hpp context change in JDK-8243302

- Adjust PR3593 following g1StringDedupTable.cpp context change in JDK-8240124 & JDK-8244955

* Wed Aug 5 2020 Severin Gehwolf - 1:1.8.0.272.b01-0.1.ea

- Fix vendor name to include '.': Red Hat, Inc => Red Hat, Inc.

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-febe36c3ac' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 1.8.0.272.b10
Release: 0.fc31
Summary: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 8

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