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Fedora 40: High Type Confusion Vulnerability in JGit 2024-129d8ca6fc

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent jgit update in Fedora 40 tackles several Type Confusion vulnerabilities. Discover more about the implemented security enhancements and modifications.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

A pure Java implementation of the Git version control system and command

line interface.

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 type confusion jgit

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 6.1.0-9 - 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: jgit
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 6.1.0
Release: 9.fc40
URL: https://www.eclipse.org/errors/404.html
Summary: A pure java implementation of git

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity fedora type confusion jgit

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