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CVE-2015-1259

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-17

Description

PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65, does not properly initialize memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Google Chrome: through 42.0.2311.152

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3267
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74723
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032375
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468167
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3267

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