CVE-2026-6786

NameCVE-2026-6786
DescriptionMemory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird ESR 140.9, Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149. 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 was fixed in Firefox 150, Firefox ESR 140.10, Thunderbird 150, and Thunderbird 140.10.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid149.0.2-1vulnerable
firefox-esr (PTS)bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1vulnerable
bullseye (security)140.9.1esr-1~deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm128.14.0esr-1~deb12u1vulnerable
bookworm (security)140.9.1esr-1~deb12u1vulnerable
trixie140.8.0esr-1~deb13u1vulnerable
trixie (security)140.9.1esr-1~deb13u1vulnerable
forky, sid140.9.1esr-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)(unfixed)
firefox-esrsource(unstable)140.10.0esr-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-30/#CVE-2026-6786
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-32/#CVE-2026-6786

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