CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-3720

2.1 LOW Published 2007-07-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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."

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.0

References