Race condition in the AsyncPaintWaitEvent::AsyncPaintWaitEvent function in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted plugin that does not properly complete initialization.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201512-10 (Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and       Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below       for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web       page or email, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a       Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2571-1 advisory.

    Robert Kaiser discovered a use-after-free during plugin initialization in some circumstances. If a user     were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to     cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user     invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2706)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 37.0.2 to fix one security issue.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

  - CVE-2015-2706: Memory corruption during failed plugin     initialization (bmo#1141081 MFSA 2015-45 bnc#928116)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 37.0.2 to fix one security issue.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

  - CVE-2015-2706 Memory corruption during failed plugin     initialization (bmo#1141081 MFSA 2015-45 bnc#928116)

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 37.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by a use-after-free error, related to the AsyncPaintWaitEvent() method, due to a race condition caused when plugin initialization fails. A remote attacker, using a crafted web page, can exploit this to execute arbitrary code.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 37.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by a use-after-free error, related to the AsyncPaintWaitEvent() method, due to a race condition caused when plugin initialization fails. A remote attacker, using a crafted web page, can exploit this to execute arbitrary code.

The Mozilla Project reports :

MFSA 2015-45 Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
87710	GLSA-201512-10 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities (Bar Mitzvah) (Logjam)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	critical
83086	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerability (USN-2571-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
83085	openSUSE Security Update : Mozille Firefox (openSUSE-2015-326)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
83084	openSUSE Security Update : Mozille Firefox (openSUSE-2015-325)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
82998	Firefox < 37.0.2 Failed Plugin Memory Corruption	Nessus	Windows	Local	medium
82997	Firefox < 37.0.2 Failed Plugin Memory Corruption (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	medium
82906	FreeBSD : mozilla -- use-after-free (738fc80d-5f13-4ccb-aa9a-7965699e5a10)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-2706

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

high

medium

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medium

medium