Name: CVE-2006-6252: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2006-12-04T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2006-6252, CVSS 5.3, EPSS 0.1119

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3

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