CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-6252

Published: Dec 04, 2006 | Modified: Oct 17, 2018

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

4.3 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6252
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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 Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Windows_live_messenger	Microsoft	*	8.0 (including)

References

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