Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.0.4

Microsoft has released an update for version 2019 of Visual Studio. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python and R, among others. The complete list of the changes in the 2019 edition can be found in the accompanying release notes. In version 16.0.4, the following improvements have also been made:

Issues fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0.4

• Attach to is prompt to attach multiple times.
• WPF applications broken after FW 4.8 update.
• installing typescript 3.3 disables version 2.2 compilation.
• Unable to attach debugger when attaching multiple startup projects on Visual Studio 2019.
• Known issue: Application tab of VB project property pages is broken when isn’ttalling the .NET Framework 4.8 Developer Pack.
• Visual Studio extensions may fail to install attempting to overwrite core NuGet files.
• microsoft.diagnosticshub.dotnetobjectalloc.vsix missing from offline installer.

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.