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Fedora: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: Type Confusion in Java and BCEL

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 40 release introduces enhancements for Java 21 compatibility while addressing type misalignment problems in the V8 engine.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

The Byte Code Engineering Library (formerly known as JavaClass) is

intended to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, and

manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class). Classes

are represented by objects which contain all the symbolic information of

the given class: methods, fields and byte code instructions, in

particular. Such objects can be read from an existing file, be

transformed by a program (e.g. a class loader at run-time) and dumped to

a file again. An even more interesting application is the creation of

classes from scratch at run-time. The Byte Code Engineering Library

(BCEL) may be also useful if you want to learn about the Java Virtual

Machine (JVM) and the format of Java .class files. BCEL is already

being used successfully in several projects such as compilers,

optimizers, obsfuscators and analysis tools, the most popular probably

being the Xalan XSLT processor at Apache.

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 security issue Fedora Java type confusion BCEL

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 6.8.1-3 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Fri Mar 1 2024 Jiri Vanek - 6.8.1-2 - bump of release for 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: bcel
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 6.8.1
Release: 3.fc40
URL: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel/
Summary: Byte Code Engineering Library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue Fedora Java type confusion BCEL

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