Versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 1.0.6 contain various security issues that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host.

Versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 1.0.5 are affected by various security issues that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host. 

The remote version of Firefox contains various security issues that may allow an attacker execute arbitrary code on the remote host.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme     available as required by RFC2617, which might cause credentials to be sent in plaintext even if an     encrypted channel is available. (CVE-2005-2395)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
3099	Mozilla Firefox < 1.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	7/20/2005	3/6/2019	high
3066	Mozilla Firefox < 1.0.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	7/13/2005	3/6/2019	high
18689	Firefox < 1.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	7/13/2005	6/23/2026	high
217027	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2005-2395	Nessus	Misc.	3/3/2025	7/28/2026	critical

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