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Vulnerability CVE-2006-6252
Published: 2006-12-04 Modified: 2012-02-12
| 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. |
Type:
CWE-Other
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
4.3/10 |
2.9/10 |
8.6/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Medium |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
None |
Partial |
References: |
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452620/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452645/100/0/threaded
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