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CVE-2006-6252

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2006-12-04 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Microsoft Windows Live Messenger

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References