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High ALAS2-2025-2999 5 CVEs

Important: thunderbird security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 9, 2025 · Updated Sep 16, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-9185: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.26, Firefox ESR 128.13, Thunderbird ESR 128.13, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.1, Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. CVE-2025-9181: Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine component. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. CVE-2025-9180: 'Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component.' This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. CVE-2025-9179: An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. CVE-2025-6703: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Mozilla neqo leads to an unexploitable crash..This issue affects neqo: from 0.4.24 through 0.13.2.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 thunderbird 0:140.2.0-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 5

  • Critical 9.8

    Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component

    An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 142, F…

  • High 8.1

    Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component

    Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 142, Firefox ESR 115.27, Firefox ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird 142, Thunderbird 128.14, and Thunderbird 140.2.

  • High 8.1

    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

    Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.26, Firefox ESR 128.13, Thunderbird ESR 128.13, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.1, Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough ef…

  • Medium 6.5

    Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine component

    Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 142, Firefox ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird 142, Thunderbird 128.14, and Thunderbird 140.2.

  • Low 2.3

    transport/fc.rs: panic attempting to send MAX_DATA with value larger max varint

    Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Mozilla neqo leads to an unexploitable crash..This issue affects neqo: from 0.4.24 through 0.13.2.

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-6703.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-9179.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-9180.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-9181.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-9185.html