CVE-2009-5006: Apache Qpid

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: up to and including 0.5
• Red Hat Enterprise Mrg: up to and including 1.2.2; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2010-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.