| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2007-3720 (CCN-35898) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2007-07-11 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2007-07-11 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2008-11-15 | ||||||||
| Summary: | 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." | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 6.2 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 2.1 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) 1.7 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:U/RC:UR)
4.0 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C/E:U/RL:U/RC:UR)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-Other | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Denial of Service | ||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2007-3720 Source: OSVDB Type: UNKNOWN 37126 Source: CCN Type: Cheat07Security Whitepaper Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges Source: MISC Type: UNKNOWN http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf Source: CCN Type: Linux Kernel Web site The Linux Kernel Archives Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 37126 Linux Kernel Process Scheduler Nanosecond Sleep Clock Interruption Local DoS Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN kernel-processsheduler-ticks-dos(35898) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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