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Alma Linux: CVE-2025-3909: Important: thunderbird security update (ALSA-2025-8756)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
May 14, 2025
Added
Jun 12, 2025
Modified
Apr 20, 2026

Description

Thunderbird's handling of the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL header can be exploited to execute JavaScript in the file:/// context. By crafting a nested email attachment (message/rfc822) and setting its content type to application/pdf, Thunderbird may incorrectly render it as HTML when opened, allowing the embedded JavaScript to run without requiring a file download. This behavior relies on Thunderbird auto-saving the attachment to /tmp and linking to it via the file:/// protocol, potentially enabling JavaScript execution as part of the HTML. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 128.10.1 and Thunderbird 138.0.1.

Solution

alma-upgrade-thunderbird
Title
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