CVE-2006-6252
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 11%
exploitation probability
11%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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
n/a · n/a