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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-129d8ca6fc High Type Confusion Fixes in xz-java

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical upgrade available for Fedora featuring JDK transition to Java 21 and addressing type confusion security flaws.
Change for system JDK from 17 to 21

Summary

A complete implementation of XZ data compression in Java.

It features full support for the .xz file format specification version 1.0.4,

single-threaded streamed compression and decompression, single-threaded

decompression with limited random access support, raw streams (no .xz headers)

for advanced users, including LZMA2 with preset dictionary.

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 update java type confusion xz-java

Change Log

* Sat Mar 2 2024 Jiri Vanek - 1.9-10 - Rebuilt for java-21-openjdk as system jdk * Wed Feb 21 2024 Marian Koncek - 1.9-9 - Set OpenJDK version to 8

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

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Name: xz-java
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.9
Release: 10.fc40
URL: Summary : Java implementation of XZ data compression

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity fedora update java type confusion xz-java

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