CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6252

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2006-12-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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 configurations

• microsoft windows live messenger (<= 8.0)

References