CVE-2015-1245

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the OpenPDFInReaderView::Update function in browser/ui/views/location_bar/open_pdf_in_reader_view.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering interaction with a PDFium "Open PDF in Reader" button that has an invalid tab association.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Google Chrome: through 41.0.2272.74

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3238
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032209
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=444957
https://codereview.chromium.org/831283002
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html

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