Applies To.NET

Revised December 6, 2024: Update to adjust the improvements from the security improvements section to the quality and reliability improvements section. 

Release Date:November 12, 2024

Version:.NET Framework 4.8

The November 12, 2024 update for Windows 10, version 1607 and Windows Server 2016 includes security and cumulative reliability improvements in .NET Framework 4.8. We recommend that you apply this update as part of your regular maintenance routines. Before you install this update, see the Prerequisites and Restart requirement sections. 

Summary

Security Improvements

There are no new security improvements in this release. This update is cumulative and contains all previously released security improvements.

Quality and Reliability Improvements

ASP.NET

- Addresses an issue where "The type initializer for ‘System.Web.UI.Util’ threw an exception." error with design-time compilation in Visual Studio for .NET Framework ASP.Net projects.

CLR1

- Address an issue where in rare cases where an infinite loop could occur when a thread enters CLR for the first time.

- Address an issue in cases where incorrect interface call devirtualization could occur when JIT optimizations are enabled.

- Addresses an issue with a security feature bypass vulnerability when using SecUtility.RandomByte.

- Addresses an issue with information disclosure with the performance counter.

- Addresses an issue with out of memory exceptions during garbage collection while running applications running under job limits.

.NET Fundamentals

- Addresses an issue with .NET API UserPrincipal.GetAuthorizationGroups to retrieve the Membership of a particular user.

1Common Language Runtime (CLR)

Known issues in this update

Microsoft is not currently aware of any issues in this update.

How to get this update

Install this update

Release Channel

Available

Next Step

Windows Update and Microsoft Update

Yes

None. This update will be downloaded and installed automatically from Windows Update.

Windows Update for Business

Yes

None. This update will be downloaded and installed automatically from Windows Update.

Microsoft Update Catalog

Yes

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

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

Yes

This update will automatically sync with WSUS if you configure as follows:

Product: Windows 10, version 1607 and Windows Server 2016

Classification: Updates

File information

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for cumulative update.

Prerequisites

To apply this update, you must have .NET Framework 4.8 installed.

Restart requirement

You must restart the computer after you apply this update if any affected files are being used. We recommend that you exit all .NET Framework-based applications before you apply this update.

How to obtain help and support for this update

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