The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2973-1 advisory.

    Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, and Phil Ringalda 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. (CVE-2016-2805,     CVE-2016-2807)

    Hanno Bck discovered that calculations with mp_div and mp_exptmod in NSS produce incorrect results in     some circumstances, resulting in cryptographic weaknesses. (CVE-2016-1938)

    A use-after-free was discovered in ssl3_HandleECDHServerKeyExchange in NSS. A remote attacker could     potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2016-1978)

    A use-after-free was discovered in PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey in NSS. A remote attacker     could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2016-1979)

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 / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2973-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91258

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