A malicious LDAP server, which a Thunderbird user is configured to query for address-book autocomplete, can stash arbitrarily large amounts of attacker-supplied data into the Thunderbird LDAP client until it crashes due to memory exhaustion. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 152.0.1 and Thunderbird 140.12.1.
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Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:15:00 +0000
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Mozilla thunderbird |
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:45:00 +0000
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| Weaknesses | CWE-399 |
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:30:00 +0000
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| Description | A malicious LDAP server, which a Thunderbird user is configured to query for address-book autocomplete, can stash arbitrarily large amounts of attacker-supplied data into the Thunderbird LDAP client until it crashes due to memory exhaustion. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 152.0.1 and Thunderbird 140.12.1. | |
| Title | Denial-of-service via malicious LDAP address-book server | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-01T00:58:32.777Z
Reserved: 2026-06-26T15:27:32.831Z
Link: CVE-2026-57962
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Updated: 2026-07-01T09:00:14Z
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