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Fedora: 2020-5708dd5b87 Moderate: OpenJDK 8 Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the latest enhancements in Fedora's OpenJDK 8, showcasing vital patches and upgrades to enhance the runtime capabilities.
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

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

* Sat Oct 17 2020 Andrew Hughes - 1:1.8.0.272.b10-0

- Update to aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u272-b10.

- Switch to GA mode for final release.

- 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

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

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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-5708dd5b87' 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 33
Version: 1.8.0.272.b10
Release: 0.fc33
Summary: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 8

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