CVE-2006-6252 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2006-12-04

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: 13.3% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_live_messenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.13289.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows Live Messenger

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-04T11:00:00.000Z

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

Reserved: 2006-12-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6252

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-6252

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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