Eclipse OpenJ9 possible infinite busy hang

published 2023-11-15 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-57967

cvss: 4.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 35%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3 links 1

Eclipse Foundation OpenJ9 0.41.0

red hat suse opensuse

java-1.8.0-ibm RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
java-1.8.0-ibm-src RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
java-1.8.0-ibm-demo RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
java-1.8.0-ibm RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9
java-1.8.0-ibm-src RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9
java-1.8.0-ibm-demo RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:0879 RHSA-2024:0866

java-1_8_0-openj9 SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 1.8.0.402-150200.3.42.1
java-1_8_0-ibm SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.8.0_sr8.15-30.117.1
java-1_8_0-openj9 SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5, openSUSE Leap 15.4 1.8.0.392-150200.3.39.1
java-1_8_0-ibm SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +10 more 1.8.0_sr8.15-150000.3.83.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:0479-1 SUSE-SU-2023:4614-1 SUSE-SU-2023:4612-1 SUSE-SU-2023:4572-1

java-17-openj9 Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 17.0.14.0-bp156.3.3.1
java-11-openj9 Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 11.0.26.0-bp156.4.3.1
java-11-openj9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 11.0.21.0-1.1
java-17-openj9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 17.0.9.0-1.1
java-1_8_0-openj9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.8.0.392-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:0067-1 openSUSE-SU-2025:0066-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13455-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13456-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13457-1

github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9#18085 pull request

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-5676 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 4.1

JDK: Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM denial of service

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.7.1-ibm-src, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0879
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-headless 1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9, +1 more
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0866
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0879

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-08-29)

Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Eclipse Foundation OpenJ9

Classification

Weakness

CWE-364 Signal Handler Race Condition
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

github.com /eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/18085
issue-tracking, patch
gitlab.eclipse.org /security/cve-assignement/-/issues/13
vendor-advisory
security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-5676
NVD CVE-2023-5676

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Summary