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Fedora: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: Type Confusion in BSF Java Framework

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for Fedora 40's bsf package features an upgrade to Java along with essential security patches addressing significant type confusion vulnerabilities.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) is a set of Java classes which provides

scripting language support within Java applications, and access to Java

objects and methods from scripting languages. BSF allows one to write

JSPs in languages other than Java while providing access to the Java

class library. In addition, BSF permits any Java application to be

implemented in part (or dynamically extended) by a language that is

embedded within it. This is achieved by providing an API that permits

calling scripting language engines from within Java, as well as an

object registry that exposes Java objects to these scripting language

engines.

BSF supports several scripting languages currently:

* Javascript (using Rhino ECMAScript, from the Mozilla project)

* Python (using either Jython or JPython)

* Tcl (using Jacl)

* NetRexx (an extension of the IBM REXX scripting language in Java)

* XSLT Stylesheets (as a component of Apache XML project's Xalan and

Xerces)

In addition, the following languages are supported with their own BSF

engines:

* Java (using BeanShell, from the BeanShell project)

* JRuby

* JudoScript

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 fedora critical threat type confusion bsf java upgrade

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 2.4.0-54 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Sat Mar 2 2024 Mikolaj Izdebski - 2.4.0-53 - Enable javadocs * Fri Mar 1 2024 Jiri Vanek - 2.4.0-52 - 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: bsf
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 2.4.0
Release: 54.fc40
URL: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bsf/
Summary: Bean Scripting Framework

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical threat type confusion bsf java upgrade

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