The process scheduler in the Linux kernel 2.4 performs scheduling based on CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing voluntary nanosecond sleeps that result in the process not being active during a clock interrupt, as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."
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Published : 2007-07-12 09:30
Updated : 2008-11-14 22:53
NVD link : CVE-2007-3720
Mitre link : CVE-2007-3720
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linux
- linux_kernel