High
Security advisory
In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.38.0, in the implementation of the shared cache (which is enabled by default in OpenJ9 builds) the size of a string is not properly checked against the size of the buffer.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-2597
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 08:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.38.0, in the implementation of the shared cache (which is enabled by default in OpenJ9 builds) the size of a string is not properly checked against the size of the buffer.
osv:CVE-2023-2597
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:27.240335295Z",
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2597",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/",
"https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/17259"
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