Apple security fix didn’t address root cause – now corrected in iOS 16.5<div class="feat-image">
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<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>
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Apple security fix didn’t address root cause – now corrected in iOS 16.5
