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CVE-2005-3899

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.4 Published: 2005-11-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Google Talk

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References