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CVE-2006-6252

medium · 4.3

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.

4.3
CVSS
11.2%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2006-12-04
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftwindows_live_messenger<= 8.0

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References

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2006-6252