{"id":3972,"date":"2023-06-23T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/apple-users-update-your-devices-right-now-critical-update-available"},"modified":"2023-06-23T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T12:48:28","slug":"apple-users-update-your-devices-right-now-critical-update-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/apple-users-update-your-devices-right-now-critical-update-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple users: update your devices right now; critical update available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, folks, listen up. If you&#8217;re an Apple user, it&#8217;s time to sit up and pay attention. This past Wednesday was not just another hump day; it marked the release of a series of critical security updates from our friends at Cupertino. So what exactly is in this update? Well, here are two of the most important fixes: Kernel:\u00a0This nasty bug could allow bad actors to &#8220;execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges,&#8221; or in layman&#8217;s terms: run code with zero restrictions on your device. That\u2019s like giving someone the keys to your house and saying, &#8220;Help yourself to anything.&#8221; Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited. Description:\u00a0An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2023-32434:\u00a0Georgy Kucherin (@kucher1n), Leonid Bezvershenko (@bzvr_), and Boris Larin (@oct0xor) of Kaspersky WebKit:\u00a0WebKit is essentially what lets webpages display on your Apple devices. A flaw here means\u00a0bad guys could use harmful web content to mess with your device and, just like the Kernel issue, execute code remotely on your device. Yea, not good. Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited. Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2023-32439: an anonymous researcher The most concerning part about all this is that Apple has confirmed both issues have been exploited already &#8211; yikes! So if you&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/knowtechie.com\/apple-devices-ios-16-update-june\/\">Apple users: update your devices right now; critical update available<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, folks, listen up. If you&#8217;re an Apple user, it&#8217;s time to sit up and pay attention. This past Wednesday was not just another hump day; it marked the release&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[964,2730,300,1664,218,180,182,12,1415,611,295,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}