Eclipse Openj9 up to 0.34.x type confusion

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Eclipse Openj9 up to 0.34.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes type confusion. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2022-3676. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability has been found in Eclipse Openj9 up to 0.34.x and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a type confusion vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-843. The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.35.0, interface calls can be inlined without a runtime type check. Malicious bytecode could make use of this inlining to access or modify memory via an incompatible type.

The weakness was published 10/24/2022 as 389. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-3676 since 10/24/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216439 (openSUSE 15 Security Update : java-11-openj9 (openSUSE-SU-2025:0066-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.35.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216439). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Eclipse

Name

• Openj9

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34

License

• open-source

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