Less than a calendar week after Apple released iOS 10.3 alongside over 100 põrnikas fixes in addition to safety enhancements; the fellowship has simply pushed an emergency spell update – iOS 10.3.1 – to addresses a few critical vulnerabilities, ane of which could permit hackers to "execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip."
The vulnerability, identified every bit CVE-2017-6975, was discovered past times Google's Project Zero staffer Gal Beniamini, who noted on Twitter that to a greater extent than data close the flaw would endure provided tomorrow.
Apple every bit good did non furnish whatever technical details on the flaw, but urged Apple iPhone, iPad in addition to iPod Touch users to update their devices every bit shortly a possible.
In the security note accompanying iOS 10.3.1, Apple describes the result every bit a stack buffer overflow vulnerability, which the fellowship addressed past times improving the input validation.
H5N1 stack buffer overflow flaw occurs when the execution stack grows beyond the retentiveness that is reserved for it, allowing hackers to execute malicious code remotely.
The flaw allows an attacker, inside range, to execute malicious code on the phone's Wi-Fi chip.
The vulnerability appears to touching on iPhone v in addition to later, iPad 4th generation in addition to later, in addition to iPod touching sixth generation, in addition to after devices running the iOS 10.3 operating system.
It's worth mentioning that iPhone v in addition to iPhone 5C were Apple's final iPhone handsets to accept a 32-bit processor alongside Apple A6 organisation on a chip. Since iPhone 5S has a 64-bit processor, it is non affected past times the issue.
To know to a greater extent than technical details close the flaw, you lot are required to await until tomorrow when Beniamini volition unloosen a detailed spider web log ship service describing the põrnikas in addition to its impact on Apple users.
With iOS 10.3 release, an over-the-air download for 32-bit Apple devices wasn't available. This has every bit good existence changed alongside iOS 10.3.1 update, which brings dorsum back upwards for iPhone v in addition to 5C every bit good every bit the fourth-generation iPad -- the solely remaining 32-bit Apple devices.
The iOS 10.3.1 update tin go endure downloaded over-the-air via Settings → General → Software Update on your iOS device.
Apple users running iOS 10.3 should endure able to come across the iOS 10.3.1 update, in addition to thus press on the "Download in addition to Install" clitoris to install the update.
