diff --git a/vendor.mod b/vendor.mod
index 4c0f69a6b3..35f74981b3 100644
--- a/vendor.mod
+++ b/vendor.mod
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm v0.0.0-20210617225240-d185dfc1b5a1
 	github.com/Graylog2/go-gelf v0.0.0-20191017102106-1550ee647df0
 	github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.5.2
-	github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.6
+	github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.7
 	github.com/RackSec/srslog v0.0.0-20180709174129-a4725f04ec91
 	github.com/armon/go-radix v1.0.1-0.20221118154546-54df44f2176c
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.37.0
diff --git a/vendor.sum b/vendor.sum
index cb0aedf132..ee7963a822 100644
--- a/vendor.sum
+++ b/vendor.sum
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.8.14/go.mod h1:NtVKoYxQuTLx6gEq0L96c9Ju4JbRJ4nY2
 github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.8.15/go.mod h1:x38A4YbHbdxJtc0sF6oIz+RG0npwSCAvn69iY6URG00=
 github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.8.16/go.mod h1:o5/SZqmR7x9JNKsW3pu+nqHm0MF8vbA+VxGOoXdC600=
 github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.8.21/go.mod h1:+w2gRZ5ReXQhFOrvSQeNfhrYB/dg3oDwTOcER2fw4I4=
-github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.6 h1:VwnDOgLeoi2du6dAznfmspNqTiwczvjv4K7NxuY9jsY=
-github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.6/go.mod h1:7pLA8lDk46WKDWlVsENo92gC0XFa8rbKfyFRBqxEbCc=
+github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.7 h1:mKNHW/Xvv1aFH87Jb6ERDzXTJTLPlmzfZ28VBFD/bfg=
+github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.7/go.mod h1:7pLA8lDk46WKDWlVsENo92gC0XFa8rbKfyFRBqxEbCc=
 github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/test v0.0.0-20201218223536-d3e5debf77da/go.mod h1:5hlzMzRKMLyo42nCZ9oml8AdTlq/0cvIaBv6tK1RehU=
 github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/test v0.0.0-20210227013316-43a75bb4edd3/go.mod h1:mw7qgWloBUl75W/gVH3cQszUg1+gUITj7D6NY7ywVnY=
 github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler v0.0.0-20170623195520-56545f4a5d46/go.mod h1:3wb06e3pkSAbeQ52E9H9iFoQsEEwGN64994WTCIhntQ=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/internal/hcs/process.go b/vendor/github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/internal/hcs/process.go
index f4605922ab..78490d6cdd 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/internal/hcs/process.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/internal/hcs/process.go
@@ -161,7 +161,39 @@ func (process *Process) Kill(ctx context.Context) (bool, error) {
 		return true, nil
 	}
 
-	resultJSON, err := vmcompute.HcsTerminateProcess(ctx, process.handle)
+	// HCS serializes the signals sent to a target pid per compute system handle.
+	// To avoid SIGKILL being serialized behind other signals, we open a new compute
+	// system handle to deliver the kill signal.
+	// If the calls to opening a new compute system handle fail, we forcefully
+	// terminate the container itself so that no container is left behind
+	hcsSystem, err := OpenComputeSystem(ctx, process.system.id)
+	if err != nil {
+		// log error and force termination of container
+		log.G(ctx).WithField("err", err).Error("OpenComputeSystem() call failed")
+		err = process.system.Terminate(ctx)
+		// if the Terminate() call itself ever failed, log and return error
+		if err != nil {
+			log.G(ctx).WithField("err", err).Error("Terminate() call failed")
+			return false, err
+		}
+		process.system.Close()
+		return true, nil
+	}
+	defer hcsSystem.Close()
+
+	newProcessHandle, err := hcsSystem.OpenProcess(ctx, process.Pid())
+	if err != nil {
+		// Return true only if the target process has either already
+		// exited, or does not exist.
+		if IsAlreadyStopped(err) {
+			return true, nil
+		} else {
+			return false, err
+		}
+	}
+	defer newProcessHandle.Close()
+
+	resultJSON, err := vmcompute.HcsTerminateProcess(ctx, newProcessHandle.handle)
 	if err != nil {
 		// We still need to check these two cases, as processes may still be killed by an
 		// external actor (human operator, OOM, random script etc).
@@ -185,9 +217,9 @@ func (process *Process) Kill(ctx context.Context) (bool, error) {
 		}
 	}
 	events := processHcsResult(ctx, resultJSON)
-	delivered, err := process.processSignalResult(ctx, err)
+	delivered, err := newProcessHandle.processSignalResult(ctx, err)
 	if err != nil {
-		err = makeProcessError(process, operation, err, events)
+		err = makeProcessError(newProcessHandle, operation, err, events)
 	}
 
 	process.killSignalDelivered = delivered
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index fad9eacb0e..f8a08491b1 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ github.com/Microsoft/go-winio/pkg/fs
 github.com/Microsoft/go-winio/pkg/guid
 github.com/Microsoft/go-winio/pkg/security
 github.com/Microsoft/go-winio/vhd
-# github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.6
+# github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.9.7
 ## explicit; go 1.13
 github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim
 github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/cmd/containerd-shim-runhcs-v1/options