CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-3899

Published: Nov 29, 2005 | Modified: Jul 20, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The automatic update feature in Google Talk allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) by poisoning a targets 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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Talk Google * *

References