The Mozilla Foundation, the software group behind the Firefox browser, has released five security advisories relating to its Firefox and Thunderbird software.
Three of the notices relate to critical vulnerabilities, with the two just classed as “moderate”, while all of which could potentially allow a hacker to executive arbitrary code.
It is understood the US-CERT department is advising Firefox users to upgrade to version 3.0.18, 3.5.8 or 3.6. Thunderbird users have been told to upgrade to 3.0.2, with SeaMonkey users also advised to upgrade to 2.0.3.
The notices come after Mozilla employee Jess Ruderman wrote in a security blog post last week the company has begun to deliver updates and notices about security problems more quickly.
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