The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3278-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial     of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5430, CVE-2017-5436,     CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5461, CVE-2017-5467)

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to spoof the addressbar     contents, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of service via application crash, or     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5437,     CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451,     CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5469,     CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197)

    A flaw was discovered in the DRBG number generation in NSS. If an attacker were able to perform a machine-     in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be exploited to view sensitive information.
    (CVE-2017-5462)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3278-1)

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