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CVE-2007-3722

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2007-07-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The 4BSD process scheduler in the FreeBSD kernel 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."

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References