The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2538-1 advisory.

    A flaw was discovered in the implementation of typed array bounds checking in the Javascript just-in-time     compilation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could exploit     this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-0817)

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered a flaw in the processing of SVG format content navigation. If a user were     tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to run arbitrary script     in a privileged context. (CVE-2015-0818)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2538-1)

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