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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-07-12T16:30:00.000

Modified: 2008-11-15T06:53:51.437

Link: CVE-2007-3720

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