CVE-2007-3720 | BDVDB-2026-25261 Detail

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The process scheduler in the Linux kernel 2.4 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."

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1. Version 12007-07-12Record published in the CVE List.
2. Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.