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 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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