CVE-2007-3721

FreeBSD - Denial of Service via ULE Scheduler Interactive Process Preference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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."

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/39598

Scores

EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 21.6%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
freebsd/freebsd
Published Jul 12, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026