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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc High: Python-Javaobj Type Confusion

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial news regarding python-javaobj in Fedora 40 targeting JDK modifications and severe security flaws in V8.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

python-javaobj is a python library that provides functions for reading

and writing (writing is WIP currently) Java objects serialized or will

be deserialized by ObjectOutputStream. This form of object representation

is a standard data interchange format in Java world.

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

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 0.4.3-12 - 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: python-javaobj
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 0.4.3
Release: 12.fc40
Summary: Python module for serializing and deserializing Java objects

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