Vulnerability in Google Talk
CVE-2005-3899
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (55.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 55.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23180 (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/038969.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)