SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2025:1157-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233994

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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-2025:1157-1 advisory.

- Mozilla Thunderbird ESR 128.9 MFSA 2025-24 (bsc#1240083)
* CVE-2025-3028: Use-after-free triggered by XSLTProcessor
* CVE-2025-3029: URL Bar Spoofing via non-BMP Unicode characters
* CVE-2025-3030: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 137, Thunderbird 137, Firefox ESR 128.9, and Thunderbird 128.9

Other fixes:

* new: Thunderbird now has a notification system for real-time desktop alerts
* fixed: Data corruption occurred when compacting IMAP Drafts folder after saving a message
* fixed: Right-clicking 'Decrypt and Save As...' on an attachment file failed.
* fixed: Thunderbird could crash when importing mail
* fixed: Sort indicators were missing on the calendar events list.

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: High

ID: 233994

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1157-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/8/2025

Updated: 4/8/2025

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3030

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-3028, CVE-2025-3029, CVE-2025-3030

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1157-1

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