RockyLinux 9 : firefox (RLSA-2025:14416)

high Nessus Plugin ID 269924

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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-2025:14416 advisory.

* firefox: thunderbird: Denial-of-service due to out-of-memory in the Graphics: WebRender component (CVE-2025-9182)

* thunderbird: firefox: Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component (CVE-2025-9179)

* thunderbird: firefox: Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component (CVE-2025-9180)

* thunderbird: firefox: Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine component (CVE-2025-9181)

* thunderbird: firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.27, Firefox ESR 128.14, Thunderbird ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird ESR 140.2, Firefox 142 and Thunderbird 142 (CVE-2025-9185)

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: High

ID: 269924

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-14416.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/10/2025

Updated: 10/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, 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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 10/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9179, CVE-2025-9180, CVE-2025-9181, CVE-2025-9182, CVE-2025-9185

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