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Medium · 4.1 CVE-2023-5676 EUVD-2023-57967GHSA-5ch2-qvr7-76ch

Eclipse OpenJ9 possible infinite busy hang

Published Nov 15, 2023 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by eclipse

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 before version 0.41.0, the JVM can be forced into an infinite busy hang on a spinlock or a segmentation fault if a shutdown signal (SIGTERM, SIGINT or SIGHUP) is received before the JVM has finished initializing.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Eclipse Foundation OpenJ9 < 0.41.0 0.41.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 8 java-1.8.0-ibm +7 1:1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9 RHSA-2024:0866
RHEL 7 java-1.8.0-ibm +5 1:1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7 RHSA-2024:0879
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SLES 15 SP5 java-1_8_0-openj9 1.8.0.392-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2024:0479-1, SUSE-SU-2023:4612-1
SLES 15 SP4 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SLES 15 SP3 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SLES 15 SP2 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SLES 15 SP1 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 12 SP5 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-30.117.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4614-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP2 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP1 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-30.117.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4614-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6 java-11-openj9 11.0.26.0-bp156.4.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:0066-1
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6 java-17-openj9 17.0.14.0-bp156.3.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:0067-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed java-11-openj9 11.0.21.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13455-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed java-17-openj9 17.0.9.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13456-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed java-1_8_0-openj9 1.8.0.392-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13457-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 java-11-openj9 11.0.26.0-bp156.4.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:0066-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 java-17-openj9 17.0.14.0-bp156.3.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:0067-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 java-1_8_0-openj9 1.8.0.392-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2024:0479-1, SUSE-SU-2023:4612-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 java-1_8_0-ibm 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 java-1_8_0-openj9 1.8.0.392-150200.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4612-1

Advisories 13

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