The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 1.0.1.  Such versions have multiple security issues, including vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to impersonate a website by using an International Domain Name, or vulnerabilities that could allow arbitrary code execution.

USN-149-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) version of Firefox. The version shipped with Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) is also vulnerable to these flaws, so it needs to be upgraded as well. Please see

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-149-1

for the original advisory.

This update also fixes several older vulnerabilities; Some of them could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges if the user visited a malicious website. (MFSA-2005-01 to MFSA-2005-44; please see the following website for details:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html)

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

The remote version of Mozilla contains multiple security issues that could allow an attacker to impersonate a website and to trick a user into accepting and executing arbitrary files or to cause a heap overflow in the FireFox process and execute arbitrary code on the remote host.

The remote host is using Firefox. The remote version of this software contains the following security flaws: 
1) There is a flaw in the way that the browser handle scripting within 'tabbed' cross-domains.  An attacker exploiting this flaw would need to be able to coerce a user into clicking on a malicious URL which would then open a separate 'TAB' within the browser.  The attacker could then retrieve data relevant to other tabbed connections or execute code locally.
2)There is a flaw in the default about: config script that would allow an attacker to modify configuration data. In order to execute such an attack, the attacker would need to be able to entice the user into visiting or clicking on a malicious URL.  A successful attacker would be able to modify the local configuration file, resulting in enhanced access rights or other potential exploits.

stripped_description=Versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 1.7.6 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - There is a flaw in the way that the browser handles scripting within 'tabbed' cross-domains.  An attacker exploiting this flaw would need to be able to convince a user to click on a malicious URL which would then open a separate 'TAB' within the browser.  The attacker could then retrieve data relevant to other tabbed connections or execute code locally.
 - There is a flaw in the default 'about: config' script that would allow an attacker to modify configuration data.  In order to execute such an attack, the attacker would need to be able to entice the user into visiting or clicking on a malicious URL.  A successful attacker would be able to modify the local configuration file, resulting in enhanced access rights or other potential exploits.  In addition, there are other unconfirmed flaws in Mozilla version 1.7.5 and lower. 

The remote host is using Mozilla, a web browser. The remote version of this software contains the following security flaws: 
1) There is a flaw in the way that the browser handles scripting within 'tabbed' cross-domains.  An attacker exploiting this flaw would need to be able to convince a user to click on a malicious URL which would then open a separate 'TAB' within the browser.  The attacker could then retrieve data relevant to other tabbed connections or execute code locally.
2)There is a flaw in the default about: config script that would allow an attacker to modify configuration data.  In order to execute such an attack, the attacker would need to be able to entice the user into visiting or clicking on a malicious URL.  A successful attacker would be able to modify the local configuration file, resulting in enhanced access rights or other potential exploits.  In addition, there are other unconfirmed flaws in Mozilla version 1.7.5 and lower.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
17218	Firefox < 1.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	2/25/2005	7/16/2018	high
20546	Ubuntu 4.10 : mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-149-3)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	1/15/2006	1/19/2021	high
17604	Mozilla Browser < 1.7.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	3/23/2005	7/16/2018	high
2652	Mozilla Firefox < 1.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	2/25/2005	3/6/2019	high
2671	Mozilla Firefox < 1.7.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	3/4/2005	3/6/2019	high
801215	Mozilla < 1.7.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Web Clients			high
800757	Firefox < 1.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Web Clients			medium

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