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AlmaLinux 9 : firefox (ALSA-2025:23034)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 278555

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:23034 advisory.

 * firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.6, Thunderbird ESR 140.6, Firefox 146 and Thunderbird 146 (CVE-2025-14333)
 * firefox: Use-after-free in the WebRTC: Signaling component (CVE-2025-14321)
 * firefox: JIT miscompilation in the JavaScript Engine: JIT component (CVE-2025-14325)
 * firefox: Sandbox escape due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics: CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2025-14322)
 * firefox: Privilege escalation in the Netmonitor component (CVE-2025-14328)
 * firefox: Privilege escalation in the Netmonitor component (CVE-2025-14329)
 * firefox: Same-origin policy bypass in the Request Handling component (CVE-2025-14331)
 * firefox: Privilege escalation in the DOM: Notifications component (CVE-2025-14323)
 * firefox: JIT miscompilation in the JavaScript Engine: JIT component (CVE-2025-14330)
 * firefox: JIT miscompilation in the JavaScript Engine: JIT component (CVE-2025-14324)

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 firefox and / or firefox-x11 packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-23034.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23034

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 278555

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-23034.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/12/2025

Updated: 12/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

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-2025-14330

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firefox-x11, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firefox, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14321, CVE-2025-14322, CVE-2025-14323, CVE-2025-14324, CVE-2025-14325, CVE-2025-14328, CVE-2025-14329, CVE-2025-14330, CVE-2025-14331, CVE-2025-14333

CWE: 94

RHSA: 2025:23034