PT-2007-4967 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Published 2007-07-12 · Updated 2008-11-15 · CVE-2007-3721

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the ULE process scheduler in the FreeBSD kernel, which prioritizes "interactive" processes that perform voluntary sleeps. This behavior can be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service through CPU consumption.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-3721

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3721 · Security Note
• http://cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf · Note
• http://osvdb.org/39598 · Note