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Title: Apple security fix didn’t address root cause – now corrected in iOS 16.5 Post by: HCK on May 27, 2023, 04:05:03 pm Apple security fix didn’t address root cause – now corrected in iOS 16.5
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/05/Apple-security-fix.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div> <p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/19/ios-15-6-1-security-fixes-update/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An Apple security fix in iOS 15.6.1[/url] back in August of last year was said to close two major <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">security[/url] vulnerabilities, one of which could have allowed a rogue app to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges (aka do Very Bad Things). But it’s now been revealed that the more serious vulnerability wasn’t closed after all.</p> <p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] did succeed in blocking a specific way of exploiting the vulnerability, but didn’t address the root issue until <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/18/ios-16-5-patches-39-security-flaws-3-actively-exploited/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">last week’s iOS 16.5 update[/url], some nine months later … </p> <p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/23/apple-security-fix/#more-884052" data-post-id="884052" data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="aapl,ios-16-5,security" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/23/apple-security-fix/">Apple security fix didn’t address root cause – now corrected in iOS 16.5[/url] appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com">9to5Mac[/url].</p> Source: Apple security fix didn’t address root cause – now corrected in iOS 16.5 (https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/23/apple-security-fix/) |