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CVE-2015-1245 (GCVE-0-2015-1245)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-19 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:33
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-04-14 00:00
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