Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6252 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL network
microsoft
Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 2 |