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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: JUnit Type Confusion Threat

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for Fedora enhances JUnit, addressing high-severity issues with Java system JDK and security releases.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck.

It is used by the developer who implements unit tests in Java. JUnit is Open

Source Software, released under the Common Public License Version 1.0 and

hosted on GitHub.

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 test framework type confusion junit java upgrade

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1:4.13.2-6 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Tue Feb 20 2024 Marian Koncek - 1:4.13.2-5 - Port to OpenJDK 21

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

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Name: junit
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.13.2
Release: 6.fc40
URL: https://junit.org/junit4/
Summary: Java regression test package

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security advisory high severity fedora test framework type confusion junit java upgrade

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