CVE-2015-1278: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 does not ensure that a PDF document's modal dialog is closed upon navigation to an interstitial page, which allows remote attackers to spoof URLs via a crafted document, as demonstrated by the alert_dialog.pdf document.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 43.0.2357.134
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: version 6.7z only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: version 6.0 only

Published 2015-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.