CVE-ID

CVE-2006-6252

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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.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20061203 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20061203)
Votes (Legacy)
Comments (Legacy)
Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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