6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
73.3%
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 ā:Dā sequences, which are interpreted as emoticons.
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452620/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452645/100/0/threaded