CVE-2007-3720
Linux Kernel 2.4 - Denial of Service via CPU Scheduling Bypass
Title source: llmDescription
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."
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/37126
Scores
EPSS
0.0031
EPSS Percentile
23.6%
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
linux/linux_kernel
2.4.0
Published
Jul 12, 2007
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026