CVE-2007-3719

CVE-2007-3719 · LOW Severity

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

The process scheduler in the Linux kernel 2.6.16 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."

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