A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel 2.6.16 (Operating System). Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

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."

The issue has been introduced in 03/20/2006. The weakness was disclosed 07/11/2007 (Website). The advisory is available at cs.huji.ac.il. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-3719 since 07/11/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 478 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 37787, 37786, 37785 and 37784 are pretty similar.

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• Linux

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• 2.6.16

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