Software update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.3.4

Microsoft has released version 17.3.4 of Visual Studio 2022. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F# and Python, among others, easier. The new version is fully 64bit and has a new simplified user interface. More information about version 17.3 can be found in this announcement from Microsoft. Version 17.3.4 also includes the following changes and improvements:

Issues Addressed in this release of 17.3.4

• Stop issuing false positives for warning C4191.
• This release fixes the following warning, “The value of the ‘PublicKey’ attribute in ‘Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 (x86 and x64)’ does not match that of file ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\ClickOnce Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFX472\NDP472-KB4054530-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe’. “, after publishing ClickOnce project in Visual Studio 17.3

Security Advisory

CVE-2022-38013 .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability A denial of service vulnerability exists in ASP.NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6.0 where a malicious client could cause a stack overflow which may result in a denial of service attack when an attacker sends a customized payload that is parsed during model binding.