Apple released iOS , your latest software update for recent iPhone and iPad devices. The patch addresses a vulnerability found in the company’s HomeKit protocol for connecting different smart home devices. The bug allowed malicious individuals to force an iPhone or iPad to repeatedly crash and freeze, changing the name of a HomeKit-compatible device to include more than 500,000 characters. Since iOS backs up HomeKit device names to iCloud, it was possible for iOS users to get stuck in an infinite loop of failures.
security researcher discovered the vulnerability and publicly disclosed it on January 1. According to Spiniolas, he informed Apple about the bug in August. The company planned to resolve the vulnerability before the end of 2022, but later delayed a fix to early 2022. “I believe this bug is being handled improperly as it poses a serious risk to users and many months have passed without a comprehensive fix,” Spiniolas said at the time.
Spiniolas found that the vulnerability has been present in Apple’s mobile operating system since iOS 14.7, but said he believes it exists in all versions of iOS 14. In other words, if you were putting off installing iOS 15, now is the time. to update your Apple devices.
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