Race Condition Affecting mozilla package, versions [,38.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.75% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378440
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 May 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 May 2015

CVE-2015-2715  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 38.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. 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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