CVE-2017-11171

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2017-11171

11 Jul 2017 — 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, ... • https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025068 • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') •