InstallShield 2023 R2 Express Edition

The following issues has been resolved in InstallShield 2023 R2 Express Edition:

Issue Number

Issue Summary

ISDEV-43575

A vulnerability was reported in the Zlib library (v1.2.13) used in InstallShield Express Edition. Now, the Zlib is upgraded to the latest version (v1.3.0.1).

ISDEV-43500

Possiblity for the DLL hijacking security vulnerability to be observed due to a malicious DLL being copied into the Disk1 folder of a built installer which included the setup.exe with a different name. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-43354

Building a QuickPatch project with the Extract COM Information checkbox checked led to crash the InstallShield Express Edition IDE. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-43265

All locally copied items were included in the File MSI table when an installer was built with Visual Studio, but one locally copied item was not included in the File table when an installer was built with MS Build. This issue has been fixed.

Note:Locally copied MSBuild target is available only for MSBuild shipped with Visual Studio 2019 or later. Therefore, this fix is only applicable to MSbuild shipped with Visual Studio 2019 or later.