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Unscored CVE-2007-3721 EUVD-2007-3705GHSA-wmh5-cx85-6vrg

The ULE process scheduler in the FreeBSD kernel gives preference to "interactive" processes that perform voluntary sleeps, which allows loc…

Published Jul 12, 2007 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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."

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