AlmaLinux 9 : thunderbird (ALSA-2025:4169)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234856

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:4169 advisory.

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 thunderbird package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4169

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-4169.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234856

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-4169.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 4/25/2025

Updated: 4/25/2025

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2025

Reference Information

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

CWE: 120, 346, 416

RHSA: 2025:4169