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Microsoft releases its security updates on the second Tuesday of each month, and alongside those it provides detailed descriptions of the vulnerabilities the patches are intended to fix.
"But this month, the process went awry," Ars Technica reported Friday. "Today, the full security bulletins went live, four days before their scheduled release."
Microsoft quickly unpublished the bulletins, but the damage may already be done, the article said. "It could be risky if the information on the security flaws are widely distributed several days before the patches," the article said.
