Displaylink ceases to work in 10.13.4

[paulgee31]

Originally Posted by tommiy

Apple has not respect for the ecosystem that their products are part of except when those products are apples. It has resulted in the decline in Macs over the years and its going to continue to be the decline of Macs. If Microsoft can perform major upgrades without crippling everything that is integrated their OS then only reason that Apple can not is because they do not wish to.

Unfortunately Microsoft can't perform an update without crippling entire machines. Just do a Google for "Windows 10 Creators or Fall Update won't boot" and you'll see a host of unhappy users rebuilding their machines or performing PC voodoo to resurrect their computer.

However I agree it is a great pity that Apple steamrollers architectural changes without working more with 3rd parties.

[pattie]

I came here with the same issue. But it sounds like there is a beta version of the driver that may work? Unfortunately displaylink.com seems to be down at the moment.

[Wozzy]

Apple have released Security Update 2018-001

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1963?...S&locale=en_US

is DL fixed?

[slvrscoobie]

Originally Posted by Wozzy

Apple have released Security Update 2018-001

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1963?...S&locale=en_US

is DL fixed?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208742
"Security Update 2018-001
Released April 24, 2018

Crash Reporter

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved error handling.

CVE-2018-4206: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

LinkPresentation

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text message may lead to UI spoofing

Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2018-4187: Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester) of Tencent Security Platform Department, Roman Mueller (@faker_)"

[Wozzy]

Originally Posted by slvrscoobie

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208742
"Security Update 2018-001
Released April 24, 2018

Crash Reporter

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved error handling.

CVE-2018-4206: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

LinkPresentation

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text message may lead to UI spoofing

Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2018-4187: Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester) of Tencent Security Platform Department, Roman Mueller (@faker_)"

Don't expect Apple put anything in there release notes about it being fixed.

[tommiy]

Originally Posted by Wozzy

Don't expect Apple put anything in there release notes about it being fixed.

Not even going to attempt to try it on my now home Mac to even find out. I don;t trust Apple and whatever else they may have packaged in here that will result in me loosing hours. I'll wait to see someone else offer up whats broken in forums.

[pattie]

Steps I tried:

1. Downloaded update
2. Confirmed did not work with restart (still showing cloned desktop)
3. Uninstalled DisplayLink beta driver
4. Restarted
5. Confirmed did not work (black screen)
6. Installed current latest release of display link driver
7. Restarted
8. Confirmed did not work (black screen)