Security researchers Secunia have discovered a vulnerability in StarOffice that gives attackers the ability to execute arbitrary code. The developers of the free counterpart, OpenOffice, removed the problem last week.

The latest version of the office suite, version 2.3.1, removes bugs and closes vulnerabilities.

Security researchers at Secunia have reported two security bugs in the Rsync synchronization tool and one in the current Linux kernel.

The Mozilla Foundation has just released Firefox version 2.0.0.10 which resolves three critical vulnerabilities – but new issues have already reared their ugly heads.

The installation routine with Version 8 of Lotus Notes for Linux, which was released by IBM in September, leaves a whole bunch of files with read, write and executable permissions set for any user behind on the filesystem.

In the past, security bugs in the Xpdf PDF viewer have endangered Linux systems time and again, and projects that use Xpdf code are also affected.

The latest version of the Mozilla successor, Seamonkey, removes minor graphics bugs and includes security updates.

A vulnerability in the extended text editor GNU Emacs gives local attackers the ability to run arbitrary code.