Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows_live_messenger
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) via a long string composed of ":D" sequences, which are interpreted as emoticons.
EPSS: 0.111 (95.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows_live_messenger
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)