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

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 40 release tackles the Jakarta Activation API while resolving significant vulnerabilities related to type confusion. Discover additional details.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Jakarta Activation lets you take advantage of standard services to:

determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data; encapsulate access to

it; discover the operations available on it; and instantiate the

appropriate bean to perform the operation(s).

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 jakarta activation

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 2.1.2-6 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Fri Mar 1 2024 Jiri Vanek - 2.1.2-5 - 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: jakarta-activation
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 2.1.2
Release: 6.fc40
URL: https://jakartaee.github.io/jaf-api/
Summary: Jakarta Activation API

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora security release type confusion jakarta activation

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