https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/solved-why-in-the-wild-bluekeep-exploits-are-causing-patched-machines-to-crash/

Recent in-the-wild attacks on the critical Bluekeep vulnerability in many versions of Windows aren’t just affecting unpatched machines. It turns out the exploits—which repurpose the September release from the Metasploit framework—are also causing many patched machines to crash.

Late last week, Windows users learned why: a separate patch Microsoft released 20 months ago for the Meltdown vulnerability in Intel CPUs. Word of the crashes first emerged five days ago, when researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered a malicious, in-the-wild Bluekeep exploit caused one of his honeypots to crash four times overnight. Metasploit developer Sean Dillon initially blamed the crashes on “mystical reptilian forces that control everything.” Then he read a Twitter post from researcher Worawit Wang: