Cloudanix VulnDB

CVE-2006-6252

None

CVSS

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EPSS

11.2%

Published

Dec 4, 2006

CISA due date

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The record

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 packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed