CVE-2007-3719

Name	CVE-2007-3719
Description	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."
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.15-1	vulnerable
	sid	6.1.20-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

This is the existing default behaviour of the scheduler, can be tuned
to suit individual needs