CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-3723

Published: Jul 12, 2007 | Modified: Nov 15, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Solaris Sun * *

References