CVE-2017-20190 (GCVE-0-2017-20190)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 18:54 Disputed
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Summary
Some Microsoft technologies as used in Windows 8 through 11 allow a temporary client-side performance degradation during processing of multiple Unicode combining characters, aka a "Zalgo text" attack. NOTE: third parties dispute whether the computational cost of interpreting Unicode data should be considered a vulnerability.
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