CVE Database · CVE-2006-6252
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
10.57%
Published
Dec 4, 2006
Modified
Apr 22, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit
All weaponized →No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.
Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
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 (1)
References (4)
