CVE-2015-2715 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2715?

CVE-2015-2715 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 14 May 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2715?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2715?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-2715 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2715 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-7qjx-chpf-r2c4, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2715.