CVE-2006-6252

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows Live Messenger: through 8.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452620/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452645/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452620/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452645/100/0/threaded

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