Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.6.4

Microsoft has released a fourth update for version 16.6.0 of Visual Studio 2019. 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† Below are the improvements Microsoft has made in this version:

Security Advisory Notice for 16.6.4

• CVE-2020-1393 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
  An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service fails to properly sanitize input, leading to an unsecure library-loading behavior.
• CVE-2020-1416 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
  An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio when it loads software dependencies.
• CVE-CVE-2020-1147 .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
  A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to an ASP.NET Core application, or other application that parses certain types of XML. The security update addresses the vulnerability by restricting the types that are allowed to be present in the XML payload.

Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6.4

• WPF XAML IntelliSense not working in 16.6.0
• Creating new files no longer crashes Visual Studio.