Security Advisory

CVE-2005-3899

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-11-29 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 23:24:36
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.