CVE-2005-3899

The automatic update feature in Google Talk allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) by poisoning a target's DNS cache and causing a large update file to be sent, which consumes large amounts of CPU and memory during the signature verification, aka BenjiBug.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.4 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2005-11-29

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Talk (Google)

References

• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/038969.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113278119300162&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23180