CVE-2006-5483
FreeBSD 6.1 - Denial of Service via Scheduler Policy Setting
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-5483. PoCs published by kokanin.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a missing privilege check in FreeBSD's scheduler policy setting to cause a local denial of service (DoS) by setting a high-priority scheduler policy (SCHED_FIFO) and entering an infinite loop, consuming CPU resources.
Description
p1003_1b.c in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause an unspecified denial of service by setting a scheduler policy, which should only be settable by root.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a missing privilege check in FreeBSD's scheduler policy setting to cause a local denial of service (DoS) by setting a high-priority scheduler policy (SCHED_FIFO) and entering an infinite loop, consuming CPU resources.