Published: 14/05/2015 Updated: 30/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox prior to 38.0 allows remote malicious users 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.

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Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-53 Use-after-free due to Media Decoder Thread creation during shutdown Announced May 12, 2015 Reporter Tyson Smith, Jesse Schwartzentruber Impact Moderate Products Firefox, Firefox OS ...

CWE-362 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2602-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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