CVE-2007-3724
Windows XP - Denial of Service via CPU Scheduling Manipulation
Title source: llmDescription
The process scheduler in the Microsoft Windows XP kernel does not make use of the process statistics kept by the kernel, performs scheduling based on CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, and 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
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/36938
Scores
EPSS
0.0129
EPSS Percentile
67.5%
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
microsoft/windows_xp
Published
Jul 12, 2007
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026