CVE-2015-2715 (GCVE-0-2015-2715)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-05-14 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:24
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-05-12 00:00
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