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Signal Handler Race Condition

CVE-2023-5676

Medium
4.1/10

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.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-364 - Signal Handler Race Condition

The software uses a signal handler that introduces a race condition.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published