Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.11.3

Microsoft has released version 16.11.3 of Visual Studio 2019. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F# and Python, among others. The complete list of the changes in the 2019 edition can be found in the accompanying release notes. In this update, Microsoft has made the following changes and improvements:

Issues Addressed in this Release

• Fixed missing “Remote Device” debug target for Xamarin iOS projects.
• Fixed a bug that caused a start menu shortcut link to disappear. The bug only happened when updating multiple instances of different product SKUs on the same machine.

From Developer Community

• Visual Studio UI unresponsive when too much build log output during build (eg: diagnostic verbosity)
• Live Unit Testing Crashes on start up
• “Remote device” not listed in devices
• Designer crashes for 32-bit apps whenever you scroll wheel over it

Security Advisory Notice CVE-2021-26434 Visual Studio Incorrect Permission Assignment Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A permission assignment vulnerability exists in Visual Studio after installing the Game development with C++ and selecting the Unreal Engine Installer workload. The system is vulnerable to LPE during the installation it creates a directory with write access to all users.