Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9.9

Microsoft has released version 15.9.9 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 following improvements have been made in this release:

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.9:

• SSDT: We fixed a crash in the SSIS Forreach Loop container.
• A few .NET native for UWP customer issues were fixed in .NET native tools 2.2 (UWP 6.2.4).
• We have corrected dual signing of Visual C++ Redistributable installers.

Security Advisory Notices

• A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio C++ Redistributable Installer improperly validates input before loading dynamic link library (DLL) files.
• Unity Editor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
• .NET Core NuGet Tampering Vulnerability.