Updates for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey 'critical'

"Highly critical" security updates have been released to patch flaws in the popular Firefox web browser and related programs that could allow an attacker to hijack computers running the software.

The Danish security firm Secunia updated its security advisory on Thursday for software distributed by the Mozilla Foundation, citing alerts issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) and Mozilla. "Highly critical" is the second-most severe alert rating on Secunia's five-point scale.

"Mozilla products contain a memory corruption vulnerability related to SVG processing," reads the U.S. CERT note issued on Wednesday, referring to the way in which the software handles imagery known as Scalable Vector Graphics.

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