Amazon Linux 2023 : firefox (ALAS2023-2025-1171)

low Nessus Plugin ID 261736

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1171 advisory.

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Mozilla neqo leads to an unexploitable crash..This issue affects neqo: from 0.4.24 through 0.13.2. (CVE-2025-6703)

An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process.
This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. (CVE-2025-9179)

'Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component.' This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. (CVE-2025-9180)

Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine component. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2.
(CVE-2025-9181)

'Denial-of-service due to out-of-memory in the Graphics: WebRender component.' This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, and Thunderbird < 140.2. (CVE-2025-9182)

Spoofing issue in the Address Bar component. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142 and Firefox ESR < 140.2. (CVE-2025-9183)

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.1, Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141.
Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, and Thunderbird < 140.2. (CVE-2025-9184)

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.26, Firefox ESR 128.13, Thunderbird ESR 128.13, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.1, Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. (CVE-2025-9185)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'dnf update firefox --releasever 2023.8.20250908' or or 'dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-1171 --releasever 2023.8.20250908' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 261736

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2025-1171.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/8/2025

Updated: 9/8/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9185

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.3

Threat Score: 0.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6703

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:firefox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:firefox-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6703, CVE-2025-9179, CVE-2025-9180, CVE-2025-9181, CVE-2025-9182, CVE-2025-9183, CVE-2025-9184, CVE-2025-9185

IAVA: 2025-A-0621

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