The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2330-1 advisory.

    Jan de Mooij, Christian Holler, Karl Tomlinson, Randell Jesup, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman and JW Wang     discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of     service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking     Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1553, CVE-2014-1562)

    Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free during DOM interactions with SVG. If a user were tricked in to     opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to     cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user     invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1563)

    Michal Zalewski discovered that memory is not initialized properly during GIF rendering in some     circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could     potentially exploit this to steal confidential information. (CVE-2014-1564)

    Holger Fuhrmannek discovered an out-of-bounds read in Web Audio. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a     denial of service via application crash or steal confidential information. (CVE-2014-1565)

    A use-after-free was discovered during text layout in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to     opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to     cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user     invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1567)

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

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2330-1)

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