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Home›CVE Pulse›CVE-2006-6252

CVE-2006-6252

NONECVSS 0.0

0.0

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.

📅 Published

December 4, 2006

🔄 Last Modified

April 23, 2026

🔗 References (4)

cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452620/100/0/threaded
cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452645/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452620/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452645/100/0/threaded

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