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CVE-2007-3723
Published: Jul 12, 2007
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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."
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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References
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vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
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