AEM instance crashes with OutOfMemoryError due to Jetty Sessions

AEM crashes with or without an OutOfMemoryError. Leak suspects report from Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool (MAT) shows org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.HashedSession consuming most of the heap. 

Example output from Eclipse MAT:

1,650,055 instances of "org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.HashedSession", loaded by "org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl$BundleClassLoaderJava5 @ 0x6c279ad00" occupy 2,292,147,984 (51.04%) bytes. These instances are referenced from one instance of "java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$Node[]", loaded by ""

Keywords
java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$Node[]
org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.HashedSession
org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl$BundleClassLoaderJava5 @ 0x6c279ad00

Environment

AEM 6.0, 6.1

Cause

It is a known issue fixed in AEM6.2.  Jetty sessions had no default time out configured in AEM6.0 and 6.1.

Resolution