CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2715
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-05-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and heap memory corruption) by leveraging improper Media Decoder Thread creation at the time of a shutdown.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 37.0.2)
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 security.gentoo.org