JVM crashes after updating to kernel with patch for Stack Guard flaw (CVE-2017-1000364)

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Appears to affect all Java versions (Oracle, OpenJDK, 1.7, 1.8, etc)

Issue

  • jsvc causes Java 1.8 to core dump when running Tomcat 8. This started happening in kernel version 2.6.32-696.3.2. The kernel is the only difference in my environment between it working and core dumping jsvc.
  • JVM crashes after updating to kernel-3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.x86_64
  • After installing the errata kernel to fix the Stack Guard flaw (CVE-2017-1000364), JVM is crashing.
  • After we installed kernel-2.6.18-420.el5 various Java applications started crashing.
  • Reports of JVM crashes occurring after upgrading to a kernel with the fix for stack guard flaw.
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGBUS (0x7) at pc=0x00007f0d190f6ec3, pid=17221, tid=0x00007f0d2be12740
#
# Problematic frame:
# j  java.lang.Object.<clinit>()V+0

Resolution

Workaround

The current workaround is to increase the Thread stack size of the JVM (for example, -Xss2m or -Xss1280k, which defaults to 1024k). This will require you to restart the JVM.

Diagnostic Steps

Note A list of kernel packages potentially impacted by this issue is available under the Resolve tab of This content is not included. Stack Guard Page Circumvention Affecting Multiple Packages. Please note that additional kernels are affected, for example kernel-2.6.32-220.73.1.el6 from the RHEL6.2 AUS stream, or the RHEL6.8 stream kernel packages.

This list is available here for reference:

RHEL 7

  • 7.3kernel-3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.x86_64
  • 7.3 RT kernel-rt-3.10.0-514.26.1.rt56.442.el7.x86_64
  • 7.2 EUS kernel-3.10.0-327.55.2.el7.x86_64

RHEL 6

  • 6.9 kernel-2.6.32-696.3.2.el6.x86_64
  • 6.7 EUS kernel-2.6.32-573.42.2.el6.x86_64
  • 6.6 AUS kernel-2.6.32-504.60.2.el6.x86_64
  • 6.5 AUS kernel-2.6.32-431.80.2.el6.x86_64
  • 6.4 AUS kernel-2.6.32-358.79.2.el6.x86_64
  • 6.2 AUS kernel-2.6.32-220.72.2.el6.x86_64

RHEL 5

  • RHEL 5 ELS kernel-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64
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