CVE-2015-2715

Mozilla: Use-after-free due to Media Decoder Thread creation during shutdown (MFSA 2015-53)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 12, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-416 · Use After Free