CVE-2006-6252 Information

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.

Reference

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