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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-113868 EUVD-2026-105295GHSA-v77j-vmg8-85hq

Uninitialized memory disclosure and out-of-bounds read in POP3 and SMTP NTLM authentication

Published Oct 20, 2026 · Updated Oct 20, 2026 · Assigned by mozilla

Description

When authenticating to a POP3 or SMTP server using NTLM, Thunderbird did not check whether the server's challenge was valid base64. A malicious server could send a challenge that caused Thunderbird to include uninitialized heap memory in its NTLM response, disclosing that memory to the server. A challenge consisting only of base64 padding also caused an out-of-bounds read, crashing Thunderbird. This affected accounts configured to use NTLM or GSSAPI authentication. The uninitialized memory disclosure only affected NTLM. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 158.0.1 and Thunderbird 153.5.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Mozilla Thunderbird — 153.5.1

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 thunderbird No fix yet —
Debian 13 thunderbird 1:153.5.1esr-1~deb13u1 —
Debian 12 thunderbird 1:153.5.1esr-1~deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 thunderbird No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS thunderbird No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS thunderbird No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS thunderbird No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaThunderbird 153.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12224-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2 thunderbird 153.5.1-1.amzn2.0.1 ALAS2-2026-4057

Advisories 3

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