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TITLE:
Apache ActiveMQ Failover Mechanism Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47112

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-12-05

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Apache ActiveMQ, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the failover
mechanism when handling openwire connection requests, which can be
exploited to trigger an exception and crash the broker service.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 5.2.0 and 5.5.0. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.

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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Luca Carettoni in a bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3294

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