RockyLinux 9 : thunderbird (RLSA-2026:70642)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 350179

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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-2026:70642 advisory.

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation in the DOM: Workers component (CVE-2026-16365)

* firefox: thunderbird: Sandbox escape in the Remote Settings Client component (CVE-2026-75874)

* firefox: Sandbox escape due to use-after-free in the DOM: Security component (CVE-2026-84121)

* firefox: Internally found bugs fixed in Firefox 155, Firefox ESR 153.2, Firefox ESR 140.15 and Firefox ESR 115.40 (CVE-2026-84145)

* firefox: Sandbox escape due to use-after-free in the DOM: Navigation component (CVE-2026-84119)

* firefox: Use-after-free in the Audio/Video component (CVE-2026-84120)

* firefox: Privilege escalation due to invalid pointer in the Graphics component (CVE-2026-84131)

* firefox: Use-after-free in the DOM: Core & HTML component (CVE-2026-84124)

* firefox: Use-after-free in the Audio/Video component (CVE-2026-84122)

* firefox: Internally found bugs fixed in Firefox 155, Firefox ESR 153.2 and Firefox ESR 140.15 (CVE-2026-84143)

* thunderbird: Uninitialized memory in MIME parsing (CVE-2026-84639)

* thunderbird: Information disclosure due to malicious IMAP server response (CVE-2026-84641)

* thunderbird: One byte overflow read in mail parser (CVE-2026-84640)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the SVG component (CVE-2026-92024)

* firefox: thunderbird: Mitigation bypass in the Remote Settings Client component (CVE-2026-92019)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the Networking component (CVE-2026-92026)

* firefox: thunderbird: Information disclosure in the Graphics: ImageLib component (CVE-2026-92031)

* firefox: thunderbird: Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Graphics component (CVE-2026-92032)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92010)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92006)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92011)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the DOM: Streams component (CVE-2026-92027)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the DOM: Core & HTML component (CVE-2026-92028)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation in the WebExtensions component (CVE-2026-92015)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92013)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the Disability Access APIs component (CVE-2026-92016)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92012)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the DOM: HTML Parser component (CVE-2026-92022)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics component (CVE-2026-92014)

* firefox: thunderbird: Sandbox escape in the DOM: Core & HTML component (CVE-2026-92018)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the JavaScript Engine: JIT component (CVE-2026-92021)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component (CVE-2026-92005)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation in the DOM: Service Workers component (CVE-2026-92017)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92009)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
WebRender component (CVE-2026-92020)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92008)

* firefox: thunderbird: Mitigation bypass in the DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop component (CVE-2026-92030)

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics:
CanvasWebGL component (CVE-2026-92007)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the DOM: Navigation component (CVE-2026-92025)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the SVG component (CVE-2026-92029)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in the XML component (CVE-2026-92023)

* thunderbird: Out-of-bounds read in IMAP response parser (CVE-2026-92240)

* thunderbird: Thunderbird: Out-of-bounds read via maliciously constructed IMAP line (CVE-2026-92239)

* thunderbird: Thunderbird: Memory safety violations via maliciously crafted mail headers (CVE-2026-92238)

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 thunderbird, thunderbird-debuginfo and / or thunderbird-debugsource packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 350179

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-70642.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/25/2026

Updated: 9/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.74

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-2026-84143

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:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:thunderbird-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:thunderbird-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:thunderbird

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-16365, CVE-2026-75874, CVE-2026-84119, CVE-2026-84120, CVE-2026-84121, CVE-2026-84122, CVE-2026-84124, CVE-2026-84131, CVE-2026-84143, CVE-2026-84145, CVE-2026-84639, CVE-2026-84640, CVE-2026-84641, CVE-2026-92005, CVE-2026-92006, CVE-2026-92007, CVE-2026-92008, CVE-2026-92009, CVE-2026-92010, CVE-2026-92011, CVE-2026-92012, CVE-2026-92013, CVE-2026-92014, CVE-2026-92015, CVE-2026-92016, CVE-2026-92017, CVE-2026-92018, CVE-2026-92019, CVE-2026-92020, CVE-2026-92021, CVE-2026-92022, CVE-2026-92023, CVE-2026-92024, CVE-2026-92025, CVE-2026-92026, CVE-2026-92027, CVE-2026-92028, CVE-2026-92029, CVE-2026-92030, CVE-2026-92031, CVE-2026-92032, CVE-2026-92238, CVE-2026-92239, CVE-2026-92240

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