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Fedora 40: apache-commons-vfs High Type Confusion CVE-2024-1938 CVE-2024-1939

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This update fixes a vulnerability within V8 connected to the apache-commons-vfs issue identified in Fedora 40, categorized as urgent.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing various file systems.

It presents a uniform view of the files from various sources, such as

the files on local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive.

Some of the features of Commons VFS are:

* A single consistent API for accessing files of different types.

* Support for numerous file system types.

* Caching of file information. Caches information in-JVM, and

optionally can cache remote file information on the local file

system (replicator).

* Event delivery.

* Support for logical file systems made up of files from various file

systems.

* Utilities for integrating Commons VFS into applications, such as a

VFS-aware ClassLoader and URLStreamHandlerFactory.

* A set of VFS-enabled Ant tasks.

Update Information:

Change for system JDK from 17 to 21. upstream security release 122.0.6261.94 High CVE-2024-1938: Type Confusion in V8 High CVE-2024-1939: Type Confusion in V8 fixed bug with requires Automatic update for lucene-9.9.2-1.fc40. bump java source/target to 1.8, fixes 2266639

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora Type Confusion apache-commons-vfs

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri - 2.9.0-5 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2123726 - consoleImageViewer crashes at start https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123726 [ 2 ] Bug #2261062 - directory-maven-plugin: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f40 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261062 [ 3 ] Bug #2266639 - directory-maven-plugin fails to build with java-21-openjdk https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266639 [ 4 ] Bug #2266934 - CVE-2024-1938 chromium: type confusion [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266934 [ 5 ] Bug #2266937 - CVE-2024-1939 chromium: type confusion [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266937 [ 6 ] Bug #2267486 - Include Java 21 as system Java Change in Fedora 40 Beta https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267486

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: apache-commons-vfs
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 2.9.0
Release: 5.fc40
URL: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/
Summary: Commons Virtual File System

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora Type Confusion apache-commons-vfs

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