Apple Releases Updates to Address Zero-Day Flaws in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari

From thehackernews.com

Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOSmacOS, and Safari web browser to address a pair of zero-day flaws that are being exploited in the wild.

The two vulnerabilities are as follows –

  • CVE-2023-28205 – A use after free issue in WebKit that could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing specially crafted web content.
  • CVE-2023-28206 – An out-of-bounds write issue in IOSurfaceAccelerator that could enable an app to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Apple said it addressed CVE-2023-28205 with improved memory management and the second with better input validation, adding it’s aware the bugs “may have been actively exploited.”

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