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Fedora Core 5 : firefox-1.5.0.6-2.fc5 (2006-902)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24167

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Several security issues have been identified that are fixed in this release. Please refer to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#fi refox1.5.0.5 for details.

Users of Firefox are advised to update to this package, which contains version 1.5.0.6 of Firefox and is not vulnerable to these issues.

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?c525c1d9

http://www.nessus.org/u?4ee31902

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24167

File Name: fedora_2006-902.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-902