The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3073-1 advisory.

    Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda     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-2016-2836)

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

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3073-1)

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