CVE-2015-2715

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS