Microsoft has acknowledged that some people have experienced issues like blue screen of death after installing last Tuesday’s patch (KB977165) for a 17 year old windows 7 vulnerability. Also it doesn’t seem be affecting any particular configuration of machines in particular.

It also mentioned that computers facing this issue completely failed to boot and did not even work in sage mode. Most of the issues seem to be occurring in windows XP platform although it has been reported from windows vista as well as 7 users. The patch in question has been temporarily removed until a solution is found.

It also stated that it could simply be an issue with a 3rd party software installed by affected users. Some companies have claimed that it was caused by a kernel component supposedly used by an

To solve this issue, users have to boot into recovery console and then use the following commands

CHDIR $NtUninstallKB977165 $\spuninst
BATCH spuninst.txt
Systemroot
Exit
“MS10-015 is an Elevation of Privilege that would require the attacker to have valid credentials in order to be able to leverage the vulnerability in an attack. Several other updates in this release were identified as having a high priority for deployment and we continue to encourage customers to thoroughly test the updates and deploy them immediately. At this time, we are not aware of any issues with the other updates that were released this month and we continue to encourage customers to install them as soon as possible in order to help ensure that they protected from the vulnerabilities they address,” Bryant added.

MS10-015 is designed to patch a 17-year old vulnerability affecting all 32-bit (x86) releases of Windows, including Windows Vista and Windows 7.