Description of the security update for the elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3: June 9, 2020

Applies to: All Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 editions except Build Tools

NoticeIn November 2020, the content of this article was updated to clarify the affected products, prerequisites, and restart requirements. Additionally, the update metadata in WSUS was revised to fix a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager reporting bug.

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists if the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector or the Visual Studio Standard Collector does not correctly handle objects in memory, or if the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service incorrectly handles file operations.To learn more about the vulnerability, go to CVE-2020-1257, CVE-2020-1293, CVE-2020-1278, CVE-2020-1203, and CVE-2020-1202.

How to obtain and install the update

Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

Method 1: Microsoft Download

The following file is available for download:Download the hotfix package now.

Method 2: Microsoft Update Catalog

To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

To download the updated Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, go to the following Microsoft webpage:Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

More information

Prerequisites

To apply this security update, you must have both Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and the subsequent Cumulative Servicing Release KB 3165756 installed. Typically, KB 3165756 is installed automatically when you install Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. However, in some cases, you have to install the two packages separately.

Restart requirement

We recommend that you close Visual Studio 2015 before you install this security update. Otherwise, you may have to restart the computer after you apply this security update if a file that is being updated is open or in use by Visual Studio.

Security update replacement information

This security update supersedes KB4538032.

File hash information

File name	SHA1 hash	SHA256 hash
vs14-kb4562053.exe	DEFC88E3181AB2322382B978BA2F29B08EC586D2	60372C699D24B093FB3AA047C2141F0667F331B85931BEE8FC922C51CEEB165D

Installation verification

To verify that this security update is applied correctly, follow these steps:

1. Open the Visual Studio 2015 folder.
2. Locate the DiagnosticHub.StandardCollector.Runtime.dll file.
3. Verify that the file version is equal to or greater than 14.0.27541.0.

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