cve-2007-3721
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-07-12 16:00
Modified
2024-08-07 14:28
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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."
References
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