Lastest Windows XP Update Causes BSOD Loop

**topgear** · 12-02-2010, 06:23 AM

An update that addresses the 17-year-old kernel bug in Windows XP is causing the Blue Screen of Death.

Consumers still using Windows XP may want to avoid the latest Microsoft security update released on Tuesday. Security blogger Brian Krebs reports that complaints are flooding the Redmond company's support forums, indicating that the update is crippling some systems with the notorious Blue Screen of Death. The systems thus falls into a reboot loop.

Early Wednesday morning an unofficial fix was posted on the support forum thread, suggesting that users boot from the Windows XP installation disk, launch the Recovery Console, and enter a chain of commands at the Repair Screen. After exiting the Recovery Console, the system should return to normal.

Unfortunately, the fix doesn't apply to netbook users suffering the BSOD issue.

But by early Thursday morning, more than 120 messages filled the support thread; more than 2,800 consumers had actually viewed the thread since its creation. Krebs had also updated his blog to reveal that the problematic update is KB977165 (MS10–15:Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel could allow elevation of privilege”). MS10-15 addresses a 17-year-old kernel bug in all 32-bit versions of Windows XP.

Other users in the support forum thread also verified the source of the BSOD as MS10-15, and said that uninstalling that particular update returns the system to normal. Currently Microsoft has not issued a hotfix for repairing or removing the MS10-15 error.

MS10-15 is one of thirteen security updates released by Microsoft on "Patch Tuesday."

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XTerminator · 13-02-2010, 03:21 PM

Microsoft always had this coming

**topgear** · 14-02-2010, 06:14 AM

Now M$ is claiming that a malware is responsible for all of this

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That pesky malware is always up to no good.

Thursday we reported that many Windows XP users were experiencing the Blue Screen of Death after installing Microsoft's latest batch of security updates. Security blogger Brian Krebs pinned the problem to MS10-15, a security update that addresses a 17-year-old kernel bug in all 32-bit versions of Windows XP. Users suffering the BSOD after installing the update were told to boot from the original Windows XP installation disc and fix the OS in the Recovery Console.

On Thursday Microsoft acknowledged the problem as stated in this blog, however at the time the Redmond company could not verify if the issue was specific to MS10-15, or if it was an interoperability problem with another component or third-party software. Microsoft pulled the patch from Windows Update until it could determine the source behind the BSOD issue.

However on Friday the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) issued a report stating that malware installed on the systems were causing problems with the MS10-15 security patch. The MSRC team said that the BSOD issue is still under investigation, and has not yet ruled out other potential causes. Consumers experiencing the BSOD issues are asked to submit memory dumps if possible.

"In order to get the information we need to fully analyze the issue, some of our support engineers have actually driven to customer locations and picked up affected systems so we can get the needed crash data directly and help inform our investigation," the MSRC report said.

Microsoft customers were also advised to keep anti-virus software running and up-to-date in order to help prevent malware infections.

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