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Fedora 40: Plexus Classworlds High Type Confusion Vulnerability FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important enhancements for Fedora 41 focusing on resolving type mismatch challenges and modifications in JDK distribution.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

Classworlds is a framework for container developers who require complex

manipulation of Java's ClassLoaders. Java's native ClassLoader mechanisms and

classes can cause much headache and confusion for certain types of application

developers. Projects which involve dynamic loading of components or otherwise

represent a 'container' can benefit from the classloading control provided by

classworlds.

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 fedora type confusion plexus classworlds jdk upgrade

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 2.8.0-3 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Fri Mar 1 2024 Jiri Vanek - 2.8.0-2 - bump of release for 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: plexus-classworlds
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 2.8.0
Release: 3.fc40
URL: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-classworlds
Summary: Plexus Classworlds Classloader Framework

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora type confusion plexus classworlds jdk upgrade

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