PT-2015-5853

CVE-2015-2715

Published

2015-05-12

Updated

2024-12-12

Description by

CVSS 2.0

6.8

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Tsmith

Tyson Smith

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (\'Race Condition\')