Description
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.
Published: 2026-07-22
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Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Off-by-one out of bounds read in MIME header parser for forwarding
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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Updated: 2026-07-22T19:19:42.305Z

Reserved: 2026-07-06T19:53:12.713Z

Link: CVE-2026-14899

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