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FKIE_CVE-2023-5676

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-11-15 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:49

Severity

4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

References

URL	Tags
emo@eclipse.org	https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/18085	Issue Tracking, Patch
emo@eclipse.org	https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/13	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/18085	Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/13	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	eclipse	openj9	*

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-15 14:02 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:50

Title

Eclipse OpenJ9 possible infinite busy hang

Summary

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 · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-29 14:41 UTC

CWE

CWE-364 - Signal Handler Race Condition

Assigner

eclipse mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/18085
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assigneme…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024110…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Eclipse Foundation	OpenJ9	Affected: 0 , < 0.41.0 (semver)

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