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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: Type Confusion in json_simple

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora upgrade for json_simple addresses security vulnerabilities related to Type Confusion in V8, alongside various enhancements. Don’t miss out—update today!
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

JSON.simple is a simple Java toolkit for JSON. You can use JSON.simple

to encode or decode JSON text.

* Full compliance with JSON specification (RFC4627) and reliable

* Provides multiple functionalities such as encode, decode/parse

and escape JSON text while keeping the library lightweight

* Flexible, simple and easy to use by reusing Map and List interfaces

* Supports streaming output of JSON text

* Stoppable SAX-like interface for streaming input of JSON text

* Heap based parser

* High performance (see performance testing)

* No dependency on external libraries

* Both of the source code and the binary are JDK1.2 compatible

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 json_simple

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1.1.1-34 - 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: json_simple
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.1.1
Release: 34.fc40
URL: https://code.google.com/archive/p/json-simple
Summary: Simple Java toolkit for JSON

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity fedora type confusion json_simple

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