CVE-2005-3899
5.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
71.7%
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 configurations
| CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| google:talk | google talk | eq | * |
Related
5.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
71.7%