CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3899

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2005-11-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-11-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• google talk

References