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

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important Fedora release focusing on ProGuard tackles Type Misinterpretation vulnerabilities in V8 while enhancing JDK to version 21.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator and

preverifier. It detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and

attributes. It optimizes bytecode and removes unused instructions. It

renames the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless

names. Finally, it preverifies the processed code for Java 6 or for Java

Micro Edition.

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 software update type confusion proguard

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 6.2.2-5 - 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: proguard
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 6.2.2
Release: 5.fc40
URL: https://www.guardsquare.com/proguard
Summary: Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator and preverifier

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity fedora software update type confusion proguard

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