CVE-2005-3899

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Google
Status
Talk
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 November 2005

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23180
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113278119300162&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-N...
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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