The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2506-1 advisory.

    Armin Razmdjou discovered that contents of locally readable files could be made available via manipulation     of form autocomplete 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 obtain sensitive     information. (CVE-2015-0822)

    Abhishek Arya discovered an out-of-bounds read and write when rendering SVG content 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 obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-0827)

    Paul Bandha discovered a use-after-free in IndexedDB. 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-2015-0831)

    Carsten Book, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jan de Mooij, Liz Henry, Byron Campen, Tom Schuster, and Ryan     VanderMeulen 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-2015-0836)

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

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2506-1)

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