FKIE_CVE-2017-11171

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-07-11 20:29 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025068Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/GNOME/gnome-session/commit/b0dc999e0b45355314616321dbb6cb71e729fc9dThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025068Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-session/commit/b0dc999e0b45355314616321dbb6cb71e729fc9dThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnome gnome-session *
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