Security News > 2022 > December > Patch Tuesday update is causing some Windows 10 systems to blue screen

Some users running Windows 10 who installed the KB5021233 cumulative update this month are seeing their operating system crash with the Blue Screen of Death, Microsoft is warning.

In an entry over the weekend in its Windows Health Dashboard, the company wrote that the update might cause "a mismatch between the file versions of hidparse.sys in c:/windows/system32 and c:/windows/system32/drivers, which might cause signature validation to fail when cleanup occurs."

This is by now means the first time Microsoft has had to address an issue caused by a Patch Tuesday update.

The same day the updates were released, the giant software maker said it was investigating problems for some Windows Server 2019 and 2022 users who wanted to spin up new virtual machines in some Hyper-V hosts.

The issue arose after installing two updates on Windows Server or Azure Stack HCI hosts managed by System Virtual Machine Manager and in software-defined networking-enabled environments with a network controller.

As with the Windows 10 problems, Microsoft issued a workaround while working on a fix.

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