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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: Type Confusion in Google-Guice

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora release tackles various vulnerabilities in google-guice, significantly reducing the impact of serious type confusion bugs found in V8.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Put simply, Guice alleviates the need for factories and the use of new

in your Java code. Think of Guice's @Inject as the new new. You will

still need to write factories in some cases, but your code will not

depend directly on them. Your code will be easier to change, unit test

and reuse in other contexts.

Guice embraces Java's type safe nature, especially when it comes to

features introduced in Java 5 such as generics and annotations. You

might think of Guice as filling in missing features for core

Java. Ideally, the language itself would provide most of the same

features, but until such a language comes along, we have Guice.

Guice helps you design better APIs, and the Guice API itself sets a

good example. Guice is not a kitchen sink. We justify each feature

with at least three use cases. When in doubt, we leave it out. We

build general functionality which enables you to extend Guice rather

than adding every feature to the core framework.

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

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 5.1.0-11 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Fri Mar 1 2024 Jiri Vanek - 5.1.0-10 - 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: google-guice
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 5.1.0
Release: 11.fc40
Summary: Lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 5 and above

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