The Mozilla Foundation has removed at least ten vulnerabilities from its browser, three of which were classified as critical by the developers.

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in two major media players for Linux. A Xine-Lib vulnerability also affects Mplayer.

Linux distributor Red Hat has released version 8 of the Red Hat Directory Server.

The makers of Asterisk, the Open Source phone system, have removed a bug that allowed denial of service attacks under certain circumstances.

Oxygen Office Professional 2.3.1 for Windows and Linux fixes a number of bugs.

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.