RockyLinux 9 : firefox (RLSA-2025:11748)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 266584

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:11748 advisory.

* firefox: thunderbird: Large branch table could lead to truncated instruction (CVE-2025-8028)

* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-8035)

* firefox: thunderbird: Incorrect URL stripping in CSP reports (CVE-2025-8031)

* firefox: thunderbird: JavaScript engine only wrote partial return value to stack (CVE-2025-8027)

* firefox: thunderbird: Potential user-assisted code execution in ?Copy as cURL? command (CVE-2025-8030)

* firefox: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-8034)

* firefox: thunderbird: Incorrect JavaScript state machine for generators (CVE-2025-8033)

* firefox: thunderbird: XSLT documents could bypass CSP (CVE-2025-8032)

* firefox: thunderbird: javascript: URLs executed on object and embed tags (CVE-2025-8029)

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 266584

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-11748.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/4/2025

Updated: 10/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2025-8035

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8031

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-debugsource, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-x11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8027, CVE-2025-8028, CVE-2025-8029, CVE-2025-8030, CVE-2025-8031, CVE-2025-8032, CVE-2025-8033, CVE-2025-8034, CVE-2025-8035

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