RockyLinux 8 : firefox (RLSA-2025:1283)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 216291

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:1283 advisory.

* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 135, Thunderbird 135, Firefox ESR 128.7, and Thunderbird 128.7 (CVE-2025-1017)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in Custom Highlight (CVE-2025-1010)

* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 135, Thunderbird 135, Firefox ESR 115.20, Firefox ESR 128.7, Thunderbird 115.20, and Thunderbird 128.7 (CVE-2025-1016)

* firefox: thunderbird: Potential opening of private browsing tabs in normal browsing windows (CVE-2025-1013)

* firefox: thunderbird: A bug in WebAssembly code generation could result in a crash (CVE-2025-1011)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in XSLT (CVE-2025-1009)

* firefox: thunderbird: Certificate length was not properly checked (CVE-2025-1014)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free during concurrent delazification (CVE-2025-1012)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 firefox, firefox-debuginfo and / or firefox-debugsource packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 216291

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-1283.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 2/14/2025

Updated: 2/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2025-1017

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1009, CVE-2025-1010, CVE-2025-1011, CVE-2025-1012, CVE-2025-1013, CVE-2025-1014, CVE-2025-1016, CVE-2025-1017

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