Symptoms
After you enable auditing of the server-level audit action groupTRANSACTION_GROUP in SQL Server 2016, if an ALTER AUDIT statement fails, SQL Server may crash.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server:
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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