Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.12 and Firefox 152. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.

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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4695-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6394-1 firefox-esr security update
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History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.12 and Thunderbird 152. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13. Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.12 and Firefox 152. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
Title Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.13 and Thunderbird 153 Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.13 and Firefox 153

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.12 and Firefox 152. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153 and Firefox ESR 140.13. Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.12 and Thunderbird 152. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
Title Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.13 and Firefox 153 Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.13 and Thunderbird 153
References

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First Time appeared Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox

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Weaknesses CWE-119
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-24T03:55:34.396Z

Reserved: 2026-07-20T21:57:54.488Z

Link: CVE-2026-16412

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-21T19:12:26.163Z

cve-icon NVD

No data.

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-07-21T12:38:23Z

Links: CVE-2026-16412 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-07-24T04:00:05Z

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