GSD-2017-20190

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2024-04-03 05:01
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** DISPUTED ** 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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