Government issues high severity warning for iOS, iPadOS and macOS users post iPhone 16 launch
Weekly Tech Recap: iPhone 16 goes on sale in India, Samsung may be working on a rollable phone and moreCERT-In warns that apart from accessing sensitive information, these vulnerabilities can be used by attackers to “execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions, cause denial of service (DoS) conditions, bypass authentication, gain elevated privileges and perform spoofing attacks on the targeted system."Apple iOS versions prior to 18 and iPadOS versions prior to 18Apple iOS versions prior to 17.7 and iPadOS versions prior to 17.7Apple macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7Apple macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.7Apple macOS Sequoia versions prior to 15Apple tvOS versions prior to 18Apple watchOS versions prior to 11Apple Safari versions prior to 18Apple Xcode versions prior to 16Apple visionOS versions prior to 2CERT-In states that these vulnerabilities have been fixed in the latest version of software updates by Apple and alerts the iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, Safari, Xcode and visionOS users to update to the latest software update provided by the Cupertino based tech giant in order to stay secure. Notably, CERT-In had also also warned about the vulnerabilities in Google Chrome browser earlier this month.
The agency stated that these vulnerability only affected users prior to 128.0.6613.119/.120 for Windows and macOS and in versions prior to 128.0.6613.119 for Linux. Milestone Alert!
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