The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2819-1 advisory.

    Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay,     Karl Tomlinson, Jeff Walden, and Gary Kwong discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a     user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, 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-2015-4513)

    Tyson Smith and David Keeler discovered a use-after-poison and buffer overflow in NSS. 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-2015-7181, CVE-2015-7182)

    Ryan Sleevi discovered an integer overflow in NSPR. 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-2015-7183)

    Micha Bentkowski discovered that adding white-space to hostnames that are IP addresses can bypass same-     origin protections. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browser-like     context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
    (CVE-2015-7188)

    Looben Yang discovered a buffer overflow during script interactions with the canvas element in some     circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browser-like context,     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-2015-7189)

    Shinto K Anto discovered that CORS preflight is bypassed when receiving non-standard Content-Type headers     in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browser-like     context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2015-7193)

    Gustavo Grieco discovered a buffer overflow in libjar in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to     opening a specially crafted website in a browser-like context, 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-2015-7194)

    Ehsan Akhgari discovered a mechanism for a web worker to bypass secure requirements for web sockets. If a     user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browser-like context, an attacker could     exploit this to bypass the mixed content web socket policy. (CVE-2015-7197)

    Ronald Crane discovered several vulnerabilities through code-inspection. If a user were tricked in to     opening a specially crafted website in a browser-like context, 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-2015-7198, CVE-2015-7199, CVE-2015-7200)

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 : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2819-1)

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Version 2.18 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 2.17 Oct 23, 2023, 4:39 PM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2015-7200") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2015-7182") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310231639