Bug 2506217 (CVE-2026-14899)

Summary: CVE-2026-14899 thunderbird: Off-by-one out of bounds read in MIME header parser for forwarding
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gotiwari, jhorak, mvyas, rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in Thunderbird. The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory describes the following issue: The code to parse MIME headers for display when forwarding a message (if the setting to view all headers was enabled) had an off-by-one error, allowing a single byte to be read from the memory after the buffer for the headers, and potentially crashing Thunderbird.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-22 20:01:45 UTC
The code to parse MIME headers for display when forwarding a message (if the setting to view all headers was enabled) had an off-by-one error, allowing a single byte to be read from the memory after the buffer for the headers, and potentially crashing Thunderbird. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 153 and Thunderbird 140.13.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-03 10:24:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:49621 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:49621

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-04 08:43:47 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:49922 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:49922

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-04 08:59:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:49921 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:49921

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-11 13:03:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2026:53445 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53445

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-11 13:44:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2026:53444 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53444

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-11 13:45:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2026:53446 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53446

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-11 13:59:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On

Via RHSA-2026:53455 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53455

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-11 14:22:06 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On

Via RHSA-2026:53453 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53453

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-11 14:22:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2026:53454 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53454

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-11 14:29:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2026:53475 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53475