I was trying to update few hosts and then the above error came up. So the fastest way to deal with it is to reboot the host and just after this, scan and remediate the host, issue should be fixed with the patch. It’s known bug as per vmware KB. You can read about it here :
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1037190