CVE-2007-3720 (GCVE-0-2007-3720)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-12 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:28
VLAI
Summary
The process scheduler in the Linux kernel 2.4 performs scheduling based on CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing voluntary nanosecond sleeps that result in the process not being active during a clock interrupt, as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2328 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://osvdb.org/37126 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Sec… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2007-07-11 00:00
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