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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-04T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:35.173Z

Reserved: 2006-12-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6252

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-04T11:28:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-17T21:47:26.877

Link: CVE-2006-6252

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