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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: SLF4J Type Confusion Fix Details

fedora
Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Elevate SLF4J within Fedora 40 to tackle severe Type Confusion vulnerabilities, strengthening the security and reliability of the system's JDK.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) is intended to serve

as a simple facade for various logging APIs allowing to the end-user

to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time. SLF4J also

allows for a gradual migration path away from

Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL).

Logging API implementations can either choose to implement the

SLF4J interfaces directly, e.g. NLOG4J or SimpleLogger. Alternatively,

it is possible (and rather easy) to write SLF4J adapters for the given

API implementation, e.g. Log4jLoggerAdapter or JDK14LoggerAdapter..

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity software update Fedora type confusion Java upgrade

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1.7.32-12 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Fri Mar 1 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1.7.32-11 - 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: slf4j
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.7.32
Release: 12.fc40
URL: https://www.slf4j.org/
Summary: Simple Logging Facade for Java

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity software update Fedora type confusion Java upgrade

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