Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9.12

Microsoft has released version 15.9.12 of Visual Studio 2017. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python and R, among others. You can read the entire laundry list of changes from the 2017 edition in the accompanying release notes. The changes in this release are as follows:

Issues Fixed in 15.9.12

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.12:

• Access violation C++ /CLI 15.9.5 ISO C++ Latest Draft Standard since 15.9.5.
• An error occurred loading this property page (CSS & JSON).
• Visual Studio 2017 crashing when editing package.json.
• Opening package.json locks up Visual Studio.
• PGO Code Gen Bug – Vectorized instruction accessing memory OOB.
• Bad code gene in recursive bucket split routine.
• Compiler optimization bug in 15.8.9.
• We have fixed a linker error LNK4020 when using PCH, /Zi, and /GL in distributed build systems, such as IncrediBuild. The C++ compiler backend now correctly associates CIL OBJs with their corresponding compiler generated PDB when generating debug info for cross-module inlining.

Security Advisory Notices

• CVE-2019-0727 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
  An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly performs certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could delete files in arbitrary locations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged access to a vulnerable system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by securing locations the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector performs file operations in.