CVE-2006-6252

Published Dec 4, 2006

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_live_messenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C79759FB-FE31-40D1-884F-D689F70E1B19",
            "versionEndIncluding": "8.0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References