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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc High: Bouncy Castle Type Confusion

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Major security patches rolled out for Bouncy Castle Java API in Fedora 40, addressing critical type confusion vulnerabilities.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic

algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the

Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8.

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity fedora type confusion bouncycastle

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1.70-13 - 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: bouncycastle
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.70
Release: 13.fc40
URL: https://www.bouncycastle.org/
Summary: Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for Java

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity fedora type confusion bouncycastle

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