A JVM crash is observed while running apache tomcat 8.5.31 configured to use JDK11 EA 18 build. The tomcat server crashes on start.

# java --version
java 11-ea 2018-09-25
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11-ea+18)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11-ea+18, mixed mode)

The following stack trace is observed for this crash:
Stack: [0x00007ffd18a66000,0x00007ffd18b64000], sp=0x00007ffd18b5f408, free space=997k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, A=aot compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [libc.so.6+0x14660f] __strlen_sse42+0xf
V [libjvm.so+0x6030f1] ClassLoader::setup_bootstrap_search_path()+0x111
V [libjvm.so+0x60377a] classLoader_init1()+0x4a
V [libjvm.so+0x882549] init_globals()+0x39
V [libjvm.so+0xde4247] Threads::create_vm(JavaVMInitArgs*, bool*)+0x327
V [libjvm.so+0x93f652] JNI_CreateJavaVM+0x52

This crash is observed on the following OS:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)