CVE-2015-2715
published 2015-05-14CVE-2015-2715: Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause…
PriorityP432medium6.8CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
2.20%
80.7th percentile
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.
Affected
4 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | <= 37.0.2 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat6.8MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-05-13·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-2708 [HIGH] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong,
Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709)
Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG
content with certain CSS properties in some circumstances. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an at
Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free due to Media Decoder Thread creation during shutdown (MFSA 2015-53)
vendor_redhat·2015-05-12·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-2715 [MEDIUM] CWE-416 Mozilla: Use-after-free due to Media Decoder Thread creation during shutdown (MFSA 2015-53)
Mozilla: Use-after-free due to Media Decoder Thread creation during shutdown (MFSA 2015-53)
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.
Statement: This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: firefo
GHSA
GHSA-7qjx-chpf-r2c4: Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2015-2715 [MEDIUM] CWE-362 GHSA-7qjx-chpf-r2c4: Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38
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.
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2015-05-13·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-2708 [HIGH] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong,
Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709)
Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG
content with certain CSS properties in some circumstances. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary c
OSV
CVE-2015-2715: Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38
osv·2015-05-13·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-2715 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-2715: Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38
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.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
2015-05-14
Published