Windows updates fail (KB2992611) - "The stub received bad data"

I am trying to install the two updates for KB2992611 manually on some Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers as they haven't been brought down by Windows updates: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44618

The installs are erroring with the same error on each server:

Windows update "Update for Windows (KB3018238)" could not be installed because of error 2147944183 "The stub received bad data." (Command line: ""C:\windows\system32\wusa.exe" "C:\Users\addons\Downloads\Windows6.1-KB3018238-x64.msu" ")

Can anyone help? I've tried looking online but found no hits on the same error message :-S

Solution 1:

We hat a similar issue which was solved via article (ID: 2028588). Our environment had to much services configured. Once we removed some older monitoring clients the issue went away.