Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2007-3720
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."
EPSS: 0.003 (23.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.4.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)