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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-11-29T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:24:36.648Z

Reserved: 2005-11-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-3899

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-11-29T21:03:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:03:00.517

Link: CVE-2005-3899

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