CVE-2007-3720

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 (4)

• cve@mitrehttp://osvdb.org/37126
• cve@mitrehttp://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/37126
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf