| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2007-3721 (CCN-35899) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2007-07-11 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2007-07-11 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2008-11-15 | ||||||||
| 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." | ||||||||
| 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-2007-3721 Source: OSVDB Type: UNKNOWN 39598 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: FreeBSD kernel Web site The FreeBSD Project Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 39598 FreeBSD ULE Process Scheduler Interactive Process Local DoS Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN freebsd-ule-processsheduler-dos(35899) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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