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Fedora 40 filedrop High Threat Type Confusion CVE-2024-1938 Advisory 2024-129d8ca6fc

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 40's recent security update reveals critical vulnerabilities linked to faulty memory management in the V8 engine, emphasizing the urgent need for Java environment enhancements
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

FileDrop makes it easy to drag and drop files from the operating

system to a Java program. Any java.awt.Component can be dropped onto,

but only javax.swing.JComponents will indicate the drop event with a

changed border.

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 security release type confusion filedrop

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1.1-24 - 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: filedrop
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.1
Release: 24.fc40
URL:
Summary: Drag-and-drop support for Java

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora security release type confusion filedrop

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