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Fedora Core 3 : firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc3 (2005-872)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19734

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated firefox package that fixes as security bug is now available for Fedora Core 3 and Fedora Core 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Fedora Security Response Team.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

A bug was found in the way Firefox processes certain international domain names. An attacker could create a specially crafted HTML file, which when viewed by the victim would cause Firefox to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-2871 to this issue.

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this updated package that contains a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected firefox and / or firefox-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0d2a49f4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19734

File Name: fedora_2005-872.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2871

FEDORA: 2005-872