CVE-2015-2715: Race Condition
First published: Thu May 14 2015(Updated: )
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.
Credit: security@mozilla.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox | <=37.0.2 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.1 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.2 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
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