CVE-2006-6252

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Microsoft
Status
Windows Live Messenger
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 December 2006

Summary

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452645/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452620/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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