It turns out that, after years of engineering work and collaboration efforts with strategic partners such as IBM, Red Hat's March 14 release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 had the misfortune of coinciding with the company's release of a whopping 11 security advisories.

Three of the advisories are rated critical, but those three pertain to other applications with critical flaws, the updated versions of which now are available for RHEL 5. They include multiple flaws, such as cross-site scripting and JavaScript handling errors, in the open-source Firefox browser. A second critical advisory covers flaws in Thunderbird, the open-source mail client. The third critical advisory concerns flaws in Ekiga, a tool for communicating with video and audio over the Internet.

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