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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2007-07-12T16:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T14:28:52.155Z
Reserved: 2007-07-11T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-3720
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2007-07-12T16:30:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:33:54.367
Link: CVE-2007-3720
Redhat
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