RHSA-2025:4170 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Security Fix(es):

• firefox: thunderbird: URL Bar Spoofing via non-BMP Unicode characters (CVE-2025-3029)
• firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free triggered by XSLTProcessor (CVE-2025-3028)
• firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 137, Thunderbird 137, Firefox ESR 128.9, and Thunderbird 128.9 (CVE-2025-3030)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2356556 - CVE-2025-3029 firefox: thunderbird: URL Bar Spoofing via non-BMP Unicode characters
• BZ - 2356562 - CVE-2025-3028 firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free triggered by XSLTProcessor
• BZ - 2356563 - CVE-2025-3030 firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 137, Thunderbird 137, Firefox ESR 128.9, and Thunderbird 128.9

CVEs

• CVE-2025-3028
• CVE-2025-3029
• CVE-2025-3030

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important