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Patches pose significant risk, researchers say
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-04-23

A group of four computer scientists urged Microsoft to redesign the way it distributes patches, after they created a technique that automatically produces attack code by comparing the vulnerable and repaired versions of a program.

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Re: Huh 2008-04-25
Anonymous
Some (or apparently, most) of them are discovered internally, or reported by security researchers. I definitely would've guessed higher than 1/3, though....

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