CVE-2026-74990

NameCVE-2026-74990
DescriptionInternally found bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.13, Thunderbird ESR 153.0 and Thunderbird 153. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption or another security-relevant defect and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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)
ReferencesDLA-4750-1, DLA-4754-1, DSA-6451-1, DSA-6461-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid155.0.1-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)bookworm140.12.0esr-1~deb12u1vulnerable
bookworm (security)140.15.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie140.12.0esr-1~deb13u1vulnerable
trixie (security)140.15.0esr-1~deb13u1fixed
forky, sid140.15.0esr-1fixed
thunderbird (PTS)bookworm1:140.12.0esr-1~deb12u1vulnerable
bookworm (security)1:140.15.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie1:140.12.0esr-1~deb13u1vulnerable
trixie (security)1:140.15.0esr-1~deb13u1fixed
forky1:140.14.0esr-1fixed
sid1:153.2.0esr-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)154.0-1
firefox-esrsourcebullseye140.14.0esr-1~deb11u1DLA-4750-1
firefox-esrsourcebookworm140.14.0esr-1~deb12u1DLA-4750-1
firefox-esrsourcetrixie140.14.0esr-1~deb13u1DSA-6451-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)140.14.0esr-2
thunderbirdsourcebullseye1:140.14.0esr-1~deb11u1DLA-4754-1
thunderbirdsourcebookworm1:140.14.0esr-1~deb12u1DLA-4754-1
thunderbirdsourcetrixie1:140.14.0esr-1~deb13u1DSA-6461-1
thunderbirdsource(unstable)1:140.14.0esr-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-74/#CVE-2026-74990
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-76/#CVE-2026-74990
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-79/#CVE-2026-74990

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