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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc High Severity Type Confusion in V8

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora update for picocli brings new features that enhance performance and address critical security flaws in the V8 JavaScript engine, enhancing development agility and security
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Picocli is a modern library and framework, written in Java, that contains both

an annotations API and a programmatic API. It features usage help with ANSI

colors and styles, TAB auto-completion and nested sub-commands. In a single

file, so you can include it in source form. This lets users run picocli-based

applications without requiring picocli as an external dependency.

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 security fix Java type confusion picocli

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 4.7.4-5 - 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: picocli
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.7.4
Release: 5.fc40
URL: https://github.com/remkop/picocli
Summary: Java command line parser with both an annotations API and a programmatic API

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora security fix Java type confusion picocli

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