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AlmaLinux 9 : thunderbird (ALSA-2025:16156)

high Nessus Plugin ID 265990

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-2025:16156 advisory.

 * firefox: thunderbird: Sandbox escape due to use-after-free in the Graphics: Canvas2D component (CVE-2025-10527)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Incorrect boundary conditions in the JavaScript: GC component (CVE-2025-10532)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Sandbox escape due to undefined behavior, invalid pointer in the Graphics:
 Canvas2D component (CVE-2025-10528)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Same-origin policy bypass in the Layout component (CVE-2025-10529)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.3, Thunderbird ESR 140.3, Firefox 143 and Thunderbird 143 (CVE-2025-10537)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Information disclosure in the Networking: Cache component (CVE-2025-10536)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Integer overflow in the SVG component (CVE-2025-10533)

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://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-16156.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16156

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 265990

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-16156.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/26/2025

Updated: 9/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-2025-10537

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-10527, CVE-2025-10528, CVE-2025-10529, CVE-2025-10532, CVE-2025-10533, CVE-2025-10536, CVE-2025-10537

CWE: 125, 190, 416, 824

RHSA: 2025:16156