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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc High Severity: HttpComponents Client Issue

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 40 resolves Type Confusion vulnerabilities in V8 affecting httpcomponents-client and the default JDK.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

HttpClient is a HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on

httpcomponents HttpCore. It also provides reusable components for

client-side authentication, HTTP state management, and HTTP connection

management. HttpComponents Client is a successor of and replacement

for Commons HttpClient 3.x. Users of Commons HttpClient are strongly

encouraged to upgrade.

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 httpcomponents-client type confusion system JDK

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 4.5.14-8 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Fri Mar 1 2024 Jiri Vanek - 4.5.14-7 - 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: httpcomponents-client
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.5.14
Release: 8.fc40
URL: https://hc.apache.org/
Summary: HTTP agent implementation based on httpcomponents HttpCore

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora security release httpcomponents-client type confusion system JDK

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