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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc High: Gnulib Type Confusion Threat

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora update, FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc, addresses key type confusion vulnerabilities in Gnulib and Java, enhancing system security and stability.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

The GNU portability library is a macro system and C declarations and

definitions for commonly-used API elements and abstracted system behaviors.

It can be used to improve portability and other functionality in your programs.

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 security release type confusion gnulib

Change Log

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: gnulib
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 0
Release: 50.20230709git.fc40
URL:
Summary: GNU Portability Library

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora security release type confusion gnulib

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