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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: Type Confusion in Java Library

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 40 has released an update for java-diff-utils that addresses important vulnerabilities and upgrades the JDK from version 17 to 21, improving overall security.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Diff Utils library is an OpenSource library for performing the comparison / diff operations

between texts or some kind of data: computing diffs, applying patches, generating unified

diffs or parsing them, generating diff output for easy future displaying (like side-by-side

view) and so on.

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 security issue Fedora system update type confusion Java library

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 4.12-7 - 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: java-diff-utils
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.12
Release: 7.fc40
URL: https://java-diff-utils.github.io/java-diff-utils/
Summary: Java library for performing diff operations

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue Fedora system update type confusion Java library

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