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CVE-2015-1271

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1271 is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in PDFium, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 44.0.2403.89, as well as various Linux distributions. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially other impacts by crafting a malicious PDF document that causes an out-of-memory condition. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity with network access, medium attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 43.0.2357.134CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:44.0.2403.89-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1271Important

chromium-browser: Heap-buffer-overflow in pdfium

Jul 21, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
codereview.chromium.org / 1226403008
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-09
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3315
securityfocus.com / bid/75973
securitytracker.com / id/1033031