CVE-2005-3899

Published Nov 29, 2005

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.4
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 4.9
Vector string: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:google:talk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C08B2281-44CE-43BB-A426-0DC95477A740"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References