The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2936-3 advisory.

    USN-2936-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused an issue where a device update POST request     was sent every time about:preferences#sync was shown. This update fixes the problem.

    We apologize for the inconvenience.



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

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

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox regression (USN-2936-3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91255

Version 2.15