Fedora Core 3 : firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1 (2005-182)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19622

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes several security vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.0. It is recommended that all users update to Firefox 1.0.1.

Additionally, this update backports several fixes from rawhide.

This update enables pango font rendering by default.

This update enables smooth scrolling by default. On slower machines, this may cause scrolling to lag. If this is the case for you, you may disable smooth scrolling by going to Edit>Preferences>Advanced and uncheck 'Use smooth scrolling'.

This update also fixes the issue with downloads going to the user's home directory instead of the desktop, as expected.

See full changelog below for more.

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?d343877d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19622

File Name: fedora_2005-182.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2005

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:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-182