RockyLinux 8 : thunderbird (RLSA-2025:4170)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243126

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-2025:4170 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 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 thunderbird, thunderbird-debuginfo and / or thunderbird-debugsource packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:4170

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356556

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356562

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356563

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 243126

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-4170.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2025

Reference Information

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