CVE-2015-1245
Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Base score: 6.8
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.83%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 79
- Score date: 10/19/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (2)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
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
- 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
Raw JSON (NVD)
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