Vulnerability Details CVE-2006-6252
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.106
EPSS Ranking 92.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
Products affected by CVE-2006-6252
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_live_messenger:-
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_live_messenger:8.0