CVE-2007-3721

The ULE process scheduler in the FreeBSD kernel gives preference to "interactive" processes that perform voluntary sleeps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-07-12

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://osvdb.org/39598
• http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf