The ULE process scheduler in the FreeBSD kernel gives preference to "interactive" processes that perform voluntary sleeps, 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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-07-12T16:00:00

Updated: 2008-11-15T10:00:00

Reserved: 2007-07-11T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2007-3721

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2008-11-15T06:53:51.767


Link: CVE-2007-3721

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