CVE-2005-3899 (GCVE-0-2005-3899)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-11-29 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:24
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113278119300162&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Date Public
2005-11-23 00:00
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