CVE-2007-3721

Published Jul 12, 2007

Last updated 16 years ago

Overview

Description: 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."
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

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

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "D9EC02F3-3905-460D-8949-3B26394215CA"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References