The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3140-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that data: URLs can inherit the wrong origin after a HTTP redirect in some     circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.
    (CVE-2016-9078)

    A use-after-free was discovered in SVG animations. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9079)

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 : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3140-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95425

Version 3.16

Version 3.15

Version 3.16 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2016-9078") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506
Version 3.15 Jun 22, 2023, 10:19 PM CISA reference Plugin Feed: 202306222219