CVE-2007-3720
Published Jul 12, 2007
Last updated 16 years ago
Overview
- Description
- 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."
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 2.1
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Configurations
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"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "C24A129D-2E5E-436C-95DE-AE75D2E8D092"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]