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CVE-2007-3722 Details

Description

The 4BSD process scheduler in the FreeBSD kernel 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."

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://osvdb.org/39599 CVE
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf CVE
http://osvdb.org/39599 [email protected]
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-OtherWeakness Not in a Standard CWE Category[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
freebsd freebsd
All versions

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3722
NVD Published Date:
Jul 12, 2007
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2007-3722 Details - Not Deferred