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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2007-3723

CVE-2007-3723

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."

Affected products

2
  • Sun Corporation/Solaris2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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