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)…

published December 4, 2006

CVSS
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EPSS
11%
Percentile
96.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.11190 · 96.0th percentile
Published
2006-12-04T11:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 DEC 11:00Z
    Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.0 and earlier, when gestual emoticons are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)…
    cvelistv5