| Name | CVE-2026-8974 |
| Description | Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 140.10 and Thunderbird 150. 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 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 151.0-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 140.10.2esr-1~deb11u1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 140.10.2esr-1~deb12u1 | vulnerable | |
| trixie (security), trixie | 140.10.2esr-1~deb13u1 | vulnerable | |
| forky | 140.10.2esr-1 | vulnerable | |
| sid | 140.11.0esr-1 | fixed | |
| thunderbird (PTS) | bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1:140.10.2esr-1~deb11u1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm | 1:140.10.1esr-1~deb12u1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm (security) | 1:140.10.2esr-1~deb12u1 | vulnerable | |
| trixie | 1:140.10.1esr-1~deb13u1 | vulnerable | |
| trixie (security) | 1:140.10.2esr-1~deb13u1 | vulnerable | |
| forky, sid | 1:140.10.2esr-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 151.0-1 | |||
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | 140.11.0esr-1 | |||
| thunderbird | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) |
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-46/#CVE-2026-8974
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-48/#CVE-2026-8974
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-51/#CVE-2026-8974