
One of the updates from this month’s giant Patch Tuesday is wreaking havoc on some users Windows PCs by giving them the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), according to a thread on Microsoft Answers , the company’s support forum. Based on what users have found, the update in question is KB977165 , which is described by Microsoft as “MS10-015: Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel could allow elevation of privilege.” The issue was first reported by Krebs on Security . Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-015 goes into further detail about the flaw being patched: “The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on to the system and then ran a specially crafted application
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