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Fedora 40 High: 2024-129d8ca6fc JSS Type Confusion Issues

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 40 update for JSS resolves several critical type confusion vulnerabilities identified in V8 engine. Discover further details here.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Java Security Services (JSS) is a java native interface which provides a bridge

for java-based applications to use native Network Security Services (NSS).

This only works with gcj. Other JREs require that JCE providers be signed.

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 issues Java update type confusion JSS

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 5.5.0-1.1 - 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: jss
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 5.5.0
Release: 1.fc40.1
URL: https://github.com/dogtagpki/jss
Summary: Java Security Services (JSS)

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora security issues Java update type confusion JSS

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