Issued:

2012-09-07

Updated:

2013-02-20

RHBA-2012:1239 - slf4j bug fix update

Synopsis

slf4j bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated slf4j packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Simple Logging Facade (SLF4J) for Java serves as a simple facade for various logging APIs allowing the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time.

This update fixes the following bug:

• The slf4j packages contained a non-functional dummy API implementation which was not supposed to be used. This dummy implementation was always selected instead of other implementations and UnsupportedOperationException was thrown. The dummy API implementation has been removed, so that user-supplied implementation is now always chosen, and slf4j works as expected. (BZ#831933, BZ#828644)

All users of slf4j are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• slf4j-manual-1.5.8-8.el6.noarch.rpm
• slf4j-1.5.8-8.el6.src.rpm
• slf4j-javadoc-1.5.8-8.el6.noarch.rpm
• slf4j-1.5.8-8.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 828644

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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