Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2015-2715

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.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.022 (80.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox
Opensuse — versions 13.1, 13.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)