Bad reference counting in the context of accept_ice_connection() in gsm-xsmp-server.c in old versions of gnome-session up until version 2.29.92 allows a local attacker to establish ICE connections to gnome-session with invalid authentication data (an invalid magic cookie). Each failed authentication attempt will leak a file descriptor in gnome-session. When the maximum number of file descriptors is exhausted in the gnome-session process, it will enter an infinite loop trying to communicate without success, consuming 100% of the CPU. The graphical session associated with the gnome-session process will stop working correctly, because communication with gnome-session is no longer possible.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-07-11T20:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T03:34:04.882Z
Reserved: 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2017-11171
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-07-11T20:29:00.267
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2017-11171
Redhat