Bug 2534187 (CVE-2026-92240)

Summary: CVE-2026-92240 thunderbird: Out-of-bounds read in IMAP response parser
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A flaw was found in Thunderbird. The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory describes the following issue: 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.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-15 20:03:13 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Jon Orris 2026-09-24 01:58:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:70642 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70642
Comment 2 Jon Orris 2026-09-29 12:16:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:73130 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73130