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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1271
Reference (s):
- BID:75973
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75973
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=446032
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1226403008