CVE-2009-5006

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The SessionAdapter::ExchangeHandlerImpl::checkAlternate function in broker/SessionAdapter.cpp in the C++ Broker component in Apache Qpid before 0.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise MRG before 1.3 and other products, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, daemon crash, and cluster outage) by attempting to modify the alternate of an exchange.

Affected products

Apache Qpid: through 0.5
RedHat Enterprise Mrg: through 1.2.2; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+1)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/41710
http://secunia.com/advisories/41812
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?revision=811188&view=revision
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2684
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642377
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-2080
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0773.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0774.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/41710
http://secunia.com/advisories/41812
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?revision=811188&view=revision
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2684

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