CVE-2007-3723

Published Jul 12, 2007

Last updated 16 years ago

Overview

Description: The process scheduler in the Sun Solaris kernel does not make use of the process statistics kept by the kernel and performs scheduling based upon CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, 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:sun:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "469B74F2-4B89-42B8-8638-731E92D463B9"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References