Race condition in nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0

CVE-2015-2715 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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