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A scala security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: scala-2.13.9-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-34acf878fb
2022-10-05 01:00:11.180963
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Name : scala
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.13.9
Release : 1.fc36
URL :   https://www.scala-lang.org/
Summary : Hybrid functional/object-oriented language for the JVM
Description :
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express
common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.
It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional
languages. It is also fully interoperable with Java.

This package contains the Scala compiler and bytecode parser.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2022-36944. See
  https://github.com/scala/scala/releases/tag/v2.13.9 for other changes in scala
2.13.9.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Sep 20 2022 Jerry James - 2.13.9-1
- Version 2.13.9 (bz 2129810), fixes CVE-2022-36944
- Drop upstreamed -difflib patch
- Convert License tag to SPDX
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2129809 - CVE-2022-36944 scala: deserialization gadget chain
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129809
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-34acf878fb' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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