Unscored severity · published Jul 12, 2007
CVE-2007-3723
The process scheduler in the Sun Solaris kernel does not make use of the process statistics kept by the kernel and performs scheduling based upon CPU billing gathered from…
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CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The process scheduler in the Sun Solaris kernel does not make use of the process statistics kept by the kernel and performs scheduling based upon CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 18% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SO
Solaris · Sun
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3723
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3723
osvdb.org
http://osvdb.org/36616
www.cs.huji.ac.il
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dants/papers/Cheat07Security.pdf
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