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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc Critical: V8 Type Confusion Detected

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update addresses issues related to type confusion vulnerabilities within V8, while incorporating Java 21 as the designated system JDK. This is crucial for users operating on Fedora.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

LibreOffice is an Open Source, community-developed, office productivity suite.

It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor,

spreadsheet, presentation manager, formula editor and drawing program, with a

user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated

and flexible, LibreOffice also works transparently with a variety of file

formats, including Microsoft Office File Formats.

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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Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1:24.2.1.1-3 - 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

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Name: libreoffice
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 24.2.1.1
Release: 3.fc40
URL: https://www.libreoffice.org/
Summary: Free Software Productivity Suite

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