FKIE_CVE-2017-20190

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-03-27 00:15 - Updated: 2024-11-21 03:22
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://aka.ms/windowsbugbar
cve@mitre.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
cve@mitre.orghttps://talk.dynalist.io/t/dynalist-is-vulnerable-to-zalgo/1234
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://aka.ms/windowsbugbar
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://talk.dynalist.io/t/dynalist-is-vulnerable-to-zalgo/1234
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