CVE-2011-4905 Information

Description

Apache ActiveMQ before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor exhaustion and broker crash or hang) by sending many openwire failover:tcp:// connection requests.

Reference

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/6 http://secunia.com/advisories/47112 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1209700 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1211844 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50904 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3294