CVE-2005-2308: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 17.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The JPEG decoder in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain crafted JPEG images, as demonstrated using (1) mov_fencepost.jpg, (2) cmp_fencepost.jpg, (3) oom_dos.jpg, or (4) random.jpg.

Affected products

Published 2005-07-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.