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Fedora 40 openjfx8 Critical Type Confusion Threat CVE-2024-1939

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential revisions for Fedora 40 emphasize the correction of type inconsistency issues in openjfx8, as well as improvements in the setup of the system's JDK.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

JavaFX/OpenJFX is a set of graphics and media APIs that enables Java

developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client

applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms.

The media and web module have been removed due to missing dependencies.

The swt module has been removed due to incompatible runtime version

(openjdk 11).

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 security update high severity fedora type confusion openjfx system jdk

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 8.0.202-40.b07 - 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: openjfx8
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 8.0.202
Release: 40.b07.fc40
URL: https://openjdk.org/projects/openjfx/
Summary: Rich client application platform for Java

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update high severity fedora type confusion openjfx system jdk

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