The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3278-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial     of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5430, CVE-2017-5436,     CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5461, CVE-2017-5467)

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to spoof the addressbar     contents, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of service via application crash, or     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5437,     CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451,     CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5469,     CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197)

    A flaw was discovered in the DRBG number generation in NSS. If an attacker were able to perform a machine-     in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be exploited to view sensitive information.
    (CVE-2017-5462)

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.

Mozilla Firefox was updated to Firefox 52.1.0esr.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed (bsc#1035082) :

  - CVE-2017-5443: Out-of-bounds write during BinHex     decoding

  - CVE-2017-5429: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 53,     Firefox ESR 45.9, and Firefox ESR 52.1

  - CVE-2017-5464: Memory corruption with accessibility and     DOM manipulation

  - CVE-2017-5465: Out-of-bounds read in ConvolvePixel

  - CVE-2017-5466: Origin confusion when reloading isolated     data:text/html URL

  - CVE-2017-5467: Memory corruption when drawing Skia     content

  - CVE-2017-5460: Use-after-free in frame selection

  - CVE-2017-5461: Out-of-bounds write in Base64 encoding in     NSS

  - CVE-2017-5448: Out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor

  - CVE-2017-5449: Crash during bidirectional unicode     manipulation with animation

  - CVE-2017-5446: Out-of-bounds read when HTTP/2 DATA     frames are sent with incorrect data

  - CVE-2017-5447: Out-of-bounds read during glyph     processing

  - CVE-2017-5444: Buffer overflow while parsing     application/http-index-format content

The package is now following the ESR 52 branch :

  - Enable plugin support by default

  - service workers are disabled by default

  - push notifications are disabled by default

  - WebAssembly (wasm) is disabled

  - Less use of multiprocess architecture Electrolysis     (e10s)

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 52.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2017-13 advisory.

  - Fixed potential buffer overflows in generated Firefox code due to     [CVE-2016-6354](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6354) issue in Flex.
    (CVE-2017-5469)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in     an array are dropped from the animation controller while still in use. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5433)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during transaction processing in the editor during design mode     interactions. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5435)

  - An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This     results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was fixed in the Graphite 2 library as well as     Mozilla products. (CVE-2017-5436)

  - An out-of-bounds write during Base64 decoding operation in the Network Security Services (NSS) library due     to insufficient memory being allocated to the buffer. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. The     NSS library has been updated to fix this issue to address this issue and Firefox ESR 52.1 has been updated     with NSS version 3.28.4. (CVE-2017-5461)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 52.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2017-12 advisory.

  - Fixed potential buffer overflows in generated Firefox code due to     [CVE-2016-6354](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6354) issue in Flex.
    (CVE-2017-5469)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in     an array are dropped from the animation controller while still in use. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5433)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during transaction processing in the editor during design mode     interactions. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5435)

  - An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This     results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was fixed in the Graphite 2 library as well as     Mozilla products. (CVE-2017-5436)

  - An out-of-bounds write during Base64 decoding operation in the Network Security Services (NSS) library due     to insufficient memory being allocated to the buffer. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. The     NSS library has been updated to fix this issue to address this issue and Firefox ESR 52.1 has been updated     with NSS version 3.28.4. (CVE-2017-5461)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Mozilla Foundation reports :

Please reference CVE/URL list for details

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 53.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2017-10 advisory.

  - Fixed potential buffer overflows in generated Firefox code due to     [CVE-2016-6354](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6354) issue in Flex.
    (CVE-2017-5469)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in     an array are dropped from the animation controller while still in use. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5433)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during transaction processing in the editor during design mode     interactions. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5435)

  - An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This     results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was fixed in the Graphite 2 library as well as     Mozilla products. (CVE-2017-5436)

  - An out-of-bounds write during Base64 decoding operation in the Network Security Services (NSS) library due     to insufficient memory being allocated to the buffer. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. The     NSS library has been updated to fix this issue to address this issue and Firefox 53 has been updated with     NSS version 3.29.5. (CVE-2017-5461)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 52.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2017-13 advisory.

  - Fixed potential buffer overflows in generated Firefox code due to     [CVE-2016-6354](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6354) issue in Flex.
    (CVE-2017-5469)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in     an array are dropped from the animation controller while still in use. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5433)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during transaction processing in the editor during design mode     interactions. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5435)

  - An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This     results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was fixed in the Graphite 2 library as well as     Mozilla products. (CVE-2017-5436)

  - An out-of-bounds write during Base64 decoding operation in the Network Security Services (NSS) library due     to insufficient memory being allocated to the buffer. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. The     NSS library has been updated to fix this issue to address this issue and Firefox ESR 52.1 has been updated     with NSS version 3.28.4. (CVE-2017-5461)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.1.0.

Security Fix(es) :

* Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5469, CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451, CVE-2017-5467, CVE-2016-10197)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Petr Cerny, Nils, Ivan Fratric (Google Project Zero), Takeshi Terada, Heather Miller (Google Skia team), Chun Han Hsiao, Chamal De Silva, Nicolas Gregoire, Holger Fuhrmannek, Atte Kettunen, Haik Aftandilian, and Jordi Chancel as the original reporters.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-1201 advisory.

    [52.1.0-1.0.1]
    - Replaced thunderbird-redhat-default-prefs.js with thunderbird-oracle-default-prefs.js

    [52.1.0-1]
    - Update to 52.1.0

    [52.0.1-1]
    - Update to 52.0.1

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2017-1642:03 advisory.

    Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
    Security issues fixed with this release:
    CVE-2016-10195     The name_parse function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta     allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors     involving the label_len variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds     stack read.
    CVE-2016-10196     Stack-based buffer overflow in the evutil_parse_sockaddr_port function     in evutil.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a     denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors involving a long     string in brackets in the ip_as_string argument.
    CVE-2016-10197     The search_make_new function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta     allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via     an empty hostname.
    CVE-2017-5429
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    CVE-2017-5432
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    CVE-2017-5433
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    CVE-2017-5434
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    CVE-2017-5435
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    CVE-2017-5436
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    CVE-2017-5438
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    CVE-2017-5439
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5440
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5441
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5442
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5443
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    CVE-2017-5444
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5445
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    CVE-2017-5446
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5447
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5449
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5451
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5454
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5459
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5460
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5464
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5465
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    CVE-2017-5466
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5467
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2017-5469
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
100249	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3278-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	5/17/2017	8/27/2024	critical
99649	openSUSE Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (openSUSE-2017-509)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/25/2017	12/23/2025	critical
275620	Mozilla Thunderbird < 52.1	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	11/18/2025	11/18/2025	critical
99631	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 52.1	Nessus	Windows	4/24/2017	11/18/2025	critical
99496	FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (5e0a038a-ca30-416d-a2f5-38cbf5e7df33)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	4/20/2017	12/25/2025	critical
99632	Mozilla Firefox < 53.0	Nessus	Windows	4/24/2017	11/18/2025	critical
99968	Mozilla Thunderbird < 52.1	Nessus	Windows	5/3/2017	11/18/2025	critical
100021	RHEL 6 / 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2017:1201)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/8/2017	12/19/2025	critical
100045	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : thunderbird (ELSA-2017-1201)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	5/9/2017	10/23/2024	critical
288906	MiracleLinux 4 : thunderbird-52.1.0-1.AXS4 (AXSA:2017-1642:03)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/16/2026	1/16/2026	critical

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