CVE-2005-3899

Severity

54%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-11-29 21:03:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

Google Google Talk

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