CVE-2007-3723

Published Jul 12, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 2.1 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The process scheduler in the Sun Solaris kernel does not make use of the process statistics kept by the kernel and performs scheduling based upon CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-3707 The process scheduler in the Sun Solaris kernel does not make use of the process statistics kept by the kernel and performs scheduling based upon CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 2:28 PM
Reserved
Jul 11, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 12, 2007, 4:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:42 PM