CVE-2007-3719
Linux Kernel 2.6.16 - Denial of Service via Interactive Process Scheduling
Title source: llmDescription
The process scheduler in the Linux kernel 2.6.16 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."
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/37127
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
Scores
EPSS
0.0031
EPSS Percentile
23.8%
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
linux/linux_kernel
2.6.16
Published
Jul 12, 2007
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026