FKIE_CVE-2007-3721

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-07-12 16:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:42
Severity
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/39598
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/39598
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freebsd freebsd *
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  "id": "CVE-2007-3721",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T22:42:35.673",
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          "accessVector": "LOCAL",
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  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
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