CVE-2007-3721 - The ULE process scheduler in the FreeBSD kernel gives preference to "interactive" processes that per

CVE-2007-3721

Summary

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

http://osvdb.org/39598
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	2.1 (as of 15-11-2008 - 06:53)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
LOCAL	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

misc	http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
osvdb	39598

Last major update

15-11-2008 - 06:53

Published

12-07-2007 - 16:30

Last modified

15-11-2008 - 06:53