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