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Fedora 40: 2024-129d8ca6fc High: Type Confusion in Vecmath

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security alert concerning vecmath1.2 within Fedora 40, targeting vulnerabilities related to type discrepancies and recent JDK revisions.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

This is an unofficial implementation (java source code) of the javax.vecmath

package specified in the Java(TM) 3D API 1.2 . The package includes classes

for 3-space vector/point, 4-space vector, 4x4, 3x3 matrix, quaternion,

axis-angle combination and etc. which are often utilized for computer graphics

mathematics. Most of the classes have single and double precision versions.

Generic matrices' LU and SV decomposition are also there.

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 bug fix type confusion system JDK vecmath

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1.14-36 - 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: vecmath1.2
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.14
Release: 36.fc40
URL: https://objectclub.jp/download/vecmath_e
Summary: Free version of vecmath from the Java3D 1.2 specification

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora bug fix type confusion system JDK vecmath

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