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openSUSE: Mozilla Thunderbird Urgent Memory Safety Issues 2025:03007-2

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Mozilla Thunderbird has released a critical update addressing significant security vulnerabilities for openSUSE Leap 15.6 and SUSE Linux distributions. Users must apply this patch promptly
An update that solves six vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

Updated to Mozilla Thunderbird 140.2 MFSA 2025-72 (bsc#1248162): *

CVE-2025-9179: Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP

component * CVE-2025-9180: Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D

component * CVE-2025-9181: Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine

component * CVE-2025-9182: Denial-of-service due to out-of-memory in the

Graphics: WebRender component * CVE-2025-9184: Memory safety bugs fixed in

Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird ESR 140.2, Firefox 142 and Thunderbird 142 *

CVE-2025-9185: 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

Other fixes: * Users were unable to use Fastmail calendars due to missing OAuth

settings * Account setup error handling was broken for Account hub * Menu bar

was hidden after updating from 128esr to 140esr

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important memory safety OpenSUSE MozillaThunderbird

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3007=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-3007=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2025-3007=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP6-2025-3007=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP7-2025-3007=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x)

* MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x)

* MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-140.2.0-150200.8.236.1

* SUSE Linux...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1248162

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9179.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9180.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9181.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9182.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9184.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9185.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248162

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03007-1
Release Date: 2025-08-28T08:03:48Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP7 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important memory safety OpenSUSE MozillaThunderbird

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