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CVE-2005-3899

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-11-29 · updated 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 products

• Google Talk: all versions

References

• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/038969.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113278119300162&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23180
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/038969.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113278119300162&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23180

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