The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3023-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that NSPR incorrectly handled memory allocation. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via     application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1951)

    Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Timothy Nikkel, Sylvestre Ledru, Julian Seward,     Olli Pettay, and Karl Tomlinson, 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-2016-2818)

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-3023-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92408

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