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.
EPSS: 0.008 (53.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Google Talk
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)