CVE-2005-1988: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 45.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 6 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only

Published 2005-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.