CVE-2007-3719

Linux Kernel 2.6.16 - Denial of Service via Interactive Process Scheduling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

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