CVE-2005-1988

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 45.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web site or an HTML e-mail containing a crafted JPEG image that causes memory corruption, aka "JPEG Image Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6-windows_server_2003_sp1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.01, 5.5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16373/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/965206
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-221A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1353
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-038
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1140
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1216
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1335
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A390
http://secunia.com/advisories/16373/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/965206
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-221A.html

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