CVE-2015-2706

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the AsyncPaintWaitEvent::AsyncPaintWaitEvent function in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted plugin that does not properly complete initialization.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 37.0.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00046.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-45.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74247
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032171
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2571-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141081
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00046.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-45.html

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