CVE-2015-2715

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 38.0

Description A race condition exists in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. This is due to improper Media Decoder Thread creation at the time of a shutdown, resulting in use-after-free and heap memory corruption.

Recommendations For versions prior to 38.0, update to version 38.0 or later to resolve the issue.