CVE-2024-10917 — Eclipse OpenJ9 might return an incorrect value in JNI function GetStringUTFLength

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 versions up to 0.47, the JNI function GetStringUTFLength may return an incorrect value which has wrapped around. From 0.48 the value is correct but may be truncated to include a smaller number of characters.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
Eclipse Foundation	Open J9	0.8.0 – ≤ 0.47.0	—

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.

SUSE

Security tracker ↗

Release	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
SLES 15 SP6	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLES 15 SP5	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLES 15 SP4	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLES 15 SP3	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLES 12 SP5	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-30.132.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0675-1

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Release	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP5	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1	java-1_8_0-ibm	1.8.0_sr8.40-150000.3.98.1	SUSE-SU-2025:0674-1

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