Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-3721 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in FreeBSD
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
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."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 1 |