SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2025:0080-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214049

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0080-1 advisory.

Update to Mozilla Thunderbird ESR 128.6 (MFSA 2025-05, bsc#1234991)

Security fixes:

- CVE-2025-0237 (bmo#1915257) WebChannel APIs susceptible to confused deputy attack
- CVE-2025-0238 (bmo#1915535) Use-after-free when breaking lines in text
- CVE-2025-0239 (bmo#1929156) Alt-Svc ALPN validation failure when redirected
- CVE-2025-0240 (bmo#1929623) Compartment mismatch when parsing JavaScript JSON module
- CVE-2025-0241 (bmo#1933023) Memory corruption when using JavaScript Text Segmentation
- CVE-2025-0242 (bmo#1874523, bmo#1926454, bmo#1931873, bmo#1932169) Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 134, Thunderbird 134, Firefox ESR 115.19, Firefox ESR 128.6, Thunderbird 115.19, and Thunderbird 128.6
- CVE-2025-0243 (bmo#1827142, bmo#1932783) Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 134, Thunderbird 134, Firefox ESR 128.6, and Thunderbird 128.6

Other fixes:

- fixed: New mail notification was not hidden after reading the new message (bmo#1920077)
- fixed: New mail notification could show for the wrong folder, causing repeated alerts (bmo#1926462)
- fixed: macOS shortcut CMD+1 did not restore the main window when it was minimized (bmo#1857953)
- fixed: Clicking the context menu 'Reply' button resulted in 'Reply-All' (bmo#1935883)
- fixed: Switching from 'All', 'Unread', and 'Threads with unread' did not work (bmo#1921618)
- fixed: Downloading message headers from a newsgroup could cause a hang (bmo#1931661)
- fixed: Message list performance slow when many updates happened at once (bmo#1933104)
- fixed: 'mailto:' links did not apply the compose format of the current identity (bmo#550414)
- fixed: Authentication failure of AUTH PLAIN or AUTH LOGIN did not fall back to USERPASS (bmo#1928026)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected MozillaThunderbird, MozillaThunderbird-translations-common and / or MozillaThunderbird-translations- other packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214049

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0080-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2025

Updated: 1/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0242

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-other

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0237, CVE-2025-0238, CVE-2025-0239, CVE-2025-0240, CVE-2025-0241, CVE-2025-0242, CVE-2025-0243

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0080-1

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