Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6252

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-12-04 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 20:19:35
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.