said by blog entry :

You may notice that we removed one of the bulletins that we had mentioned in the “Advanced Notification Service” that we released last week. We did this prior to today’s bulletin release because of a last minute quality issue.

said by blog entry :

Lost in the shuffle of this month’s Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player (WMP) was not fixed “because of a last minute quality issue.”

Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but, when the patches dropped on Tuesday, it had slipped because of patch-quality concerns.

The explanation from Redmond:

* Microsoft has heard from customers that the quality of updates is very important and, as part of the process at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), Microsoft tests these updates continuously until they are ready for distribution to customers through our regularly scheduled security bulletin release.

This effectively means that millions of Windows users — WMP ships with every version of the desktop operating system — are exposed to a critical, code execution vulnerability that will not be fixed for at least another month.

said by EGeezer :

Since the information on the missing patch was removed in the advisory, we as users only know that there's a critical vulnerability in WMP out there that's still unpatched, and have no workaround or precautions to take beyond simply not using WMP.

said by EGeezer :

Thanks for putting out the word -

and for the attribution!

said by SUMware :

Those wishing to explore a free and excellent replacement for WMP can look at the VideoLAN - VLC media player.

VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free and open source software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

BTW - it doesn't spy on its users.

said by SUMware :

Those wishing to explore a free and excellent replacement for WMP can look at the VideoLAN - VLC media player.

said by dadkins :

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I would much rather have a patch that works and doesn't break something than have them push one that might be screwed up.
Been there before, no thanks!
How many of y'all have seen a patch screw something up?

They can keep that patch and FIX IT before I install it and it breaks/loses/kills something.

YMMV

said by dadkins :

... I would much rather have a patch that works and doesn't break something than have them push one that might be screwed up.
Been there before, no thanks!
How many of y'all have seen a patch screw something up?

They can keep that patch and FIX IT before I install it and it breaks/loses/kills something.

said by EGeezer :

While it's goodness to remove flawed patches, the vulnerabilty information and workarounds(if any) should not also be removed.

said by Cabal :

People aren't asking for a broken patch. People are asking for information on what specifically is vulnerable and how they can protect themselves in the absence of a patch. Microsoft isn't obliging.