Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-3722
CVE-2007-3722
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."
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