CVE-2023-5676 (GCVE-0-2023-5676)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-15 14:02 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:50
VLAI
Title
Eclipse OpenJ9 possible infinite busy hang
Summary
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.
Severity
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-364 - Signal Handler Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Eclipse Foundation OpenJ9 Affected: 0 , < 0.41.0 (semver)
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