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."
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2007-07-12T16:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T14:28:51.765Z
Reserved: 2007-07-11T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-3723
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2007-07-12T16:30:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:33:54.760
Link: CVE-2007-3723
Redhat
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