First published: Thu Jul 12 2007(Updated: )
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."
Credit: cve@mitre.org
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FreeBSD FreeBSD |
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