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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2006-12-04T11:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:35.173Z
Reserved: 2006-12-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-6252
 Vulnrichment
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-12-04T11:28:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2006-6252
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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