The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3112-1 advisory.

    Catalin Dumitru discovered that URLs of resources loaded after a navigation start could be leaked to the     following page via the Resource Timing API. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted     website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information.
    (CVE-2016-5250)

    Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, and     Carsten Book 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-2016-5257)

    Atte Kettunen discovered a heap buffer overflow during text conversion with some unicode characters. 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-2016-5270)

    Abhishek Arya discovered a bad cast when processing layout with input elements in some circumstances. If a     user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could     potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2016-5272)

    A use-after-free was discovered in web animations during restyling. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a     denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5274)

    A use-after-free was discovered in accessibility. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted     website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via     application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5276)

    A use-after-free was discovered in web animations when destroying a timeline. If a user were tricked in to     opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to     cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5277)

    A buffer overflow was discovered when encoding image frames to images in some circumstances. 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-2016-5278)

    Mei Wang discovered a use-after-free when changing text direction. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a     denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5280)

    Brian Carpenter discovered a use-after-free when manipulating SVG content in some circumstances. If a user     were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could     potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2016-5281)

    An issue was discovered with the preloaded Public Key Pinning (HPKP). If a machine-in-the-middle (MITM)     attacker was able to obtain a fraudulent certificate for a Mozilla site, they could exploit this by     providing malicious addon updates. (CVE-2016-5284)

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-3112-1)

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