A malicious or compromised IMAP server can trigger an out-of-bounds read in the IMAP response parser by sending an untagged '* ID' response, crashing Thunderbird. The affected parsing path is reachable before authentication. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 156 and Thunderbird 140.16.
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:15:00 +0000
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| Description | A malicious or compromised IMAP server can trigger an out-of-bounds read in the IMAP response parser by sending an untagged '* ID' response, crashing Thunderbird. The affected parsing path is reachable before authentication. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 140.16. | A malicious or compromised IMAP server can trigger an out-of-bounds read in the IMAP response parser by sending an untagged '* ID' response, crashing Thunderbird. The affected parsing path is reachable before authentication. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 156 and Thunderbird 140.16. |
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000
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| Description | A malicious or compromised IMAP server can trigger an out-of-bounds read in the IMAP response parser by sending an untagged '* ID' response, crashing Thunderbird. The affected parsing path is reachable before authentication. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 140.16. | |
| Title | Out-of-bounds read in IMAP response parser | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-15T20:01:42.207Z
Reserved: 2026-09-15T19:42:52.961Z
Link: CVE-2026-92240
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-15T20:19:41.677
Modified: 2026-09-15T20:19:41.677
Link: CVE-2026-92240
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