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CVE-2015-1271
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2015-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, does not properly handle certain out-of-memory conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document that triggers a large memory allocation.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- Google Chrome: through 43.0.2357.134
- Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: 6.7z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75973
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=446032
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1226403008
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
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