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

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora enhances Octave by integrating the latest system JDK update to Java 21 and addressing crucial security vulnerabilities.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical

computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for

solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing

other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible

with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave

has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra

problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating

ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary

differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily

extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in

Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in

C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.

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 software update Fedora type confusion Octave Java 21

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 6:8.4.0-6 - 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: octave
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 8.4.0
Release: 6.fc40
URL:
Summary: A high-level language for numerical computations

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity software update Fedora type confusion Octave Java 21

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