Company will release six security updates next week.
Microsoft plans to patch its Windows and Visual Studio products next week, but it does not have a fix in the works for a widely publicized flaw in Word, which hackers are reportedly exploiting in targeted attacks.
The company's security team is readying five sets of patches for Windows, and will also issue a single critical security update for Visual Studio, Microsoft said in an alert published Thursday.
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Microsoft rates the most serious of its Windows updates as critical, meaning an attacker could exploit the underlying flaw to run malware on a victim's PC with no user action, the company said.