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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc High: Type Confusion in Nom-Tam-FITS

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Recent Java library enhancements released for Fedora, targeting critical security vulnerabilities linked to Type Confusion in V8 for the system's JDK.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is the standard data format in

astronomy used for the transport, analysis, and archival storage of

scientific data sets.

This library provides efficient I/O for FITS images and binary tables.

All basic FITS formats and GZIP compressed files are supported.

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

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Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri - 1.15.2-22 - 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: nom-tam-fits
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.15.2
Release: 22.fc40
URL: http://nom-tam-fits.github.io/nom-tam-fits/
Summary: Java library for reading and writing FITS files

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity fedora type confusion java library

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