CVE-2007-3719 Information

Description

The process scheduler in the Linux kernel 2.6.16 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.\

Reference

http://osvdb.org/37127 http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf