Apple has rolled out several security fixes to older versions of iOS and MacOS, including a critical flaw in its WebKit browser engine.<\/p>\n
Apple previously addressed the CVE-2022-42856 type confusion vulnerability as part of the iOS 16.1.2 update at the end of November 2022.<\/p>\n
The flaw, discovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group, could allow for arbitrary code execution when the user attempts to open maliciously crafted web content.<\/p>\n
It also rolled out a fix to Apple devices running iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, MacOS Ventura, tvOS 16, and Safari 16.<\/p>\n
Apple said it was aware that attackers had actively exploited the vulnerability on versions of iOS released before iOS version 15.1.<\/p>\n
With the latest update \u2014 iOS 12.5.7 \u2014 devices as old as the iPhone 5s, released almost ten years ago, also get the fix.<\/p>\n
Other supported devices include the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, original iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and 6th-gen iPod Touch.<\/p>\n
All devices that support iOS 13 and iOS 14 can update to iOS 15 or iOS 16, so they can receive those versions’ fixes.<\/p>\n
The MacOS Big Sur and Monterey updates also fix multiple vulnerabilities in other software components \u2014 including DiskArbitration, DriverKit, Kernel, and AppleMobileFileIntegrity bugs.<\/p>\n
With the latest update \u2014 iOS 12.5.7 \u2014 devices as old as the iPhone 5s, released almost 10 years ago, get a critical security fix. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":477613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[51351,1125,17580,49767,9147],"class_list":["post-477593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-ios-12","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-5s","tag-security-vulnerabilities","tag-webkit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477645,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477593\/revisions\/477645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}