CVE-2006-6252

published 2006-12-04

CVE-2006-6252: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.0 and earlier, when gestual emoticons are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)…

Priority P4 16 medium 4.3 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C N I N A P

Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.0 and earlier, when gestual emoticons are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long string composed of ":D" sequences, which are interpreted as emoticons.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
microsoft	windows_live_messenger	<= 8.0	—

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