Apple has distributed a list of security fixes in the just-released iOS 7 software update. And it's as long and encompassing as you'd imagine any major platform update would be. I haven't seen them online yet, so I'm reproducing it here for anyone who's urgently interested. When/if Apple posts it to their knowledge base, we'll update and link out.
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iOS 7 is now available and addresses the following:
Certificate Trust Policy
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Root certificates have been updated
Description: Several certificates were added to or removed from the
list of system roots.
CoreGraphics
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of JBIG2
encoded data in PDF files. This issue was addressed through
additional bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-1025 : Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team
CoreMedia
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of Sorenson
encoded movie files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds
checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-1019 : Tom Gallagher (Microsoft) & Paul Bates (Microsoft)
working with HP's Zero Day Initiative
Data Protection
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Apps could bypass passcode-attempt restrictions
Description: A privilege separation issue existed in Data
Protection. An app within the third-party sandbox could repeatedly
attempt to determine the user's passcode regardless of the user's
"Erase Data" setting. This issue was addressed by requiring
additional entitlement checks.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-0957 : Jin Han of the Institute for Infocomm Research
working with Qiang Yan and Su Mon Kywe of Singapore Management
University
Data Security
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept
user credentials or other sensitive information
Description: TrustWave, a trusted root CA, has issued, and
subsequently revoked, a sub-CA certificate from one of its trusted
anchors. This sub-CA facilitated the interception of communications
secured by Transport Layer Security (TLS). This update added the
involved sub-CA certificate to OS X's list of untrusted certificates.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5134
dyld
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: An attacker who has arbitrary code execution on a device may
be able to persist code execution across reboots
Description: Multiple buffer overflows existed in dyld's
openSharedCacheFile() function. These issues were addressed through
improved bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-3950 : Stefan Esser
File Systems
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: An attacker who can mount a non-HFS filesystem may be able
to cause an unexpected system termination or arbitrary code execution
with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of
AppleDouble files. This issue was addressed by removing support for
AppleDouble files.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-3955 : Stefan Esser
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of JPEG2000
encoded data in PDF files. This issue was addressed through
additional bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-1026 : Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team
IOKit
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Background applications could inject user interface events
into the foreground app
Description: It was possible for background applications to inject
user interface events into the foreground application using the task
completion or VoIP APIs. This issue was addressed by enforcing access
controls on foreground and background processes that handle interface
events.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5137 : Mackenzie Straight at Mobile Labs
IOKitUser
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: A malicious local application could cause an unexpected
system termination
Description: A null pointer dereference existed in IOCatalogue.
The issue was addressed through additional type checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5138 : Will Estes
IOSerialFamily
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Executing a malicious application may result in arbitrary
code execution within the kernel
Description: An out of bounds array access existed in the
IOSerialFamily driver. This issue was addressed through additional
bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5139 : @dent1zt
IPSec
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: An attacker may intercept data protected with IPSec Hybrid
Auth
Description: The DNS name of an IPSec Hybrid Auth server was not
being matched against the certificate, allowing an attacker with a
certificate for any server to impersonate any other. This issue was
addressed by improved certificate checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-1028 : Alexander Traud of www.traud.de
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: A remote attacker can cause a device to unexpectedly restart
Description: Sending an invalid packet fragment to a device can
cause a kernel assert to trigger, leading to a device restart. The
issue was addressed through additional validation of packet
fragments.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5140 : Joonas Kuorilehto of Codenomicon, an anonymous
researcher working with CERT-FI, Antti LevomAki and Lauri Virtanen
of Vulnerability Analysis Group, Stonesoft
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: A malicious local application could cause device hang
Description: An integer truncation vulnerability in the kernel
socket interface could be leveraged to force the CPU into an infinite
loop. The issue was addressed by using a larger sized variable.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5141 : CESG
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: An attacker on a local network can cause a denial of service
Description: An attacker on a local network can send specially
crafted IPv6 ICMP packets and cause high CPU load. The issue was
addressed by rate limiting ICMP packets before verifying their
checksum.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-2391 : Marc Heuse
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Kernel stack memory may be disclosed to local users
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in the msgctl
and segctl APIs. This issue was addressed by initializing data
structures returned from the kernel.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5142 : Kenzley Alphonse of Kenx Technology, Inc
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Unprivileged processes could get access to the contents of
kernel memory which could lead to privilege escalation
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in the
mach_port_space_info API. This issue was addressed by initializing
the iin_collision field in structures returned from the kernel.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-3953 : Stefan Esser
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Unprivileged processes may be able to cause an unexpected
system termination or arbitrary code execution in the kernel
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of
arguments to the posix_spawn API. This issue was addressed through
additional bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-3954 : Stefan Esser
Kext Management
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: An unauthorized process may modify the set of loaded kernel
extensions
Description: An issue existed in kextd's handling of IPC messages
from unauthenticated senders. This issue was addressed by adding
additional authorization checks.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5145 : "Rainbow PRISM"
libxml
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted web page may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in libxml.
These issues were addressed by updating libxml to version 2.9.0.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-3102 : Juri Aedla
CVE-2012-0841
CVE-2012-2807 : Juri Aedla
CVE-2012-5134 : Google Chrome Security Team (Juri Aedla)
libxslt
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted web page may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in libxslt.
These issues were addressed by updating libxslt to version 1.1.28.
CVE-ID
CVE-2012-2825 : Nicolas Gregoire
CVE-2012-2870 : Nicolas Gregoire
CVE-2012-2871 : Kai Lu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs, Nicolas
Gregoire
Passcode Lock
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: A person with physical access to the device may be able to
bypass the screen lock
Description: A race condition issue existed in the handling of phone
calls and SIM card ejection at the lock screen. This issue was
addressed through improved lock state management.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5147 : videosdebarraquito
Personal Hotspot
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: An attacker may be able to join a Personal Hotspot network
Description: An issue existed in the generation of Personal Hotspot
passwords, resulting in passwords that could be predicted by an
attacker to join a user's Personal Hotspot. The issue was addressed
by generating passwords with higher entropy.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-4616 : Andreas Kurtz of NESO Security Labs and Daniel Metz
of University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Push Notifications
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: The push notification token may be disclosed to an app
contrary to the user's decision
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in push
notification registration. Apps requesting access to the push
notification access received the token before the user approved the
app's use of push notifications. This issue was addressed by
withholding access to the token until the user has approved access.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5149 : Jack Flintermann of Grouper, Inc.
Safari
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of
XML files. This issue was addressed through additional bounds
checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-1036 : Kai Lu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
Safari
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: History of pages recently visited in an open tab may remain
after clearing of history
Description: Clearing Safari's history did not clear the
back/forward history for open tabs. This issue was addressed by
clearing the back/forward history.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5150
Safari
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Viewing files on a website may lead to script execution even
when the server sends a 'Content-Type: text/plain' header
Description: Mobile Safari sometimes treated files as HTML files
even when the server sent a 'Content-Type: text/plain' header. This
may lead to cross-site scripting on sites that allow users to upload
files. This issue was addressed through improved handling of files
when 'Content-Type: text/plain' is set.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5151 : Ben Toews of Github
Safari
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may allow an arbitrary URL to
be displayed
Description: A URL bar spoofing issue existed in Mobile Safari. This
issue was addressed through improved URL tracking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5152 : Keita Haga of keitahaga.com, Lukasz Pilorz of RBS
Sandbox
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Applications that are scripts were not sandboxed
Description: Third-party applications which used the #! syntax to
run a script were sandboxed based on the identity of the script
interpreter, not the script. The interpreter may not have a sandbox
defined, leading to the application being run unsandboxed. This issue
was addressed by creating the sandbox based on the identity of the
script.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5154 : evad3rs
Sandbox
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Applications can cause a system hang
Description: Malicious third-party applications that wrote specific
values to the /dev/random device could force the CPU to enter an
infinite loop. This issue was addressed by preventing third-party
applications from writing to /dev/random.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5155 : CESG
Social
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Users recent Twitter activity could be disclosed on devices
with no passcode.
Description: An issue existed where it was possible to determine
what Twitter accounts a user had recently interacted with. This issue
was resolved by restricting access to the Twitter icon cache.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5158 : Jonathan Zdziarski
Springboard
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: A person with physical access to a device in Lost Mode may
be able to view notifications
Description: An issue existed in the handling of notifications when
a device is in Lost Mode. This update addresses the issue with
improved lock state management.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5153 : Daniel Stangroom
Telephony
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Malicious apps could interfere with or control telephony
functionality
Description: An access control issue existed in the telephony
subsystem. Bypassing supported APIs, sandboxed apps could make
requests directly to a system daemon interfering with or controlling
telephony functionality. This issue was addressed by enforcing access
controls on interfaces exposed by the telephony daemon.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5156 : Jin Han of the Institute for Infocomm Research
working with Qiang Yan and Su Mon Kywe of Singapore Management
University; Tielei Wang, Kangjie Lu, Long Lu, Simon Chung, and Wenke
Lee from the Georgia Institute of Technology
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Sandboxed apps could send tweets without user interaction or
permission
Description: An access control issue existed in the Twitter
subsystem. Bypassing supported APIs, sandboxed apps could make
requests directly to a system daemon interfering with or controlling
Twitter functionality. This issue was addressed by enforcing access
controls on interfaces exposed by the Twitter daemon.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5157 : Jin Han of the Institute for Infocomm Research
working with Qiang Yan and Su Mon Kywe of Singapore Management
University; Tielei Wang, Kangjie Lu, Long Lu, Simon Chung, and Wenke
Lee from the Georgia Institute of Technology
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in WebKit.
These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-0879 : Atte Kettunen of OUSPG
CVE-2013-0991 : Jay Civelli of the Chromium development community
CVE-2013-0992 : Google Chrome Security Team (Martin Barbella)
CVE-2013-0993 : Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno)
CVE-2013-0994 : David German of Google
CVE-2013-0995 : Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno)
CVE-2013-0996 : Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno)
CVE-2013-0997 : Vitaliy Toropov working with HP's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2013-0998 : pa_kt working with HP's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2013-0999 : pa_kt working with HP's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2013-1000 : Fermin J. Serna of the Google Security Team
CVE-2013-1001 : Ryan Humenick
CVE-2013-1002 : Sergey Glazunov
CVE-2013-1003 : Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno)
CVE-2013-1004 : Google Chrome Security Team (Martin Barbella)
CVE-2013-1005 : Google Chrome Security Team (Martin Barbella)
CVE-2013-1006 : Google Chrome Security Team (Martin Barbella)
CVE-2013-1007 : Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno)
CVE-2013-1008 : Sergey Glazunov
CVE-2013-1010 : miaubiz
CVE-2013-1037 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1038 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1039 : own-hero Research working with iDefense VCP
CVE-2013-1040 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1041 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1042 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1043 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1044 : Apple
CVE-2013-1045 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1046 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-1047 : miaubiz
CVE-2013-2842 : Cyril Cattiaux
CVE-2013-5125 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-5126 : Apple
CVE-2013-5127 : Google Chrome Security Team
CVE-2013-5128 : Apple
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to information
disclosure
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in the handling
of the window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame() API. A maliciously
crafted website could use an iframe to determine if another site used
window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame(). This issue was addressed
through improved handling of window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame().
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5159
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Copying and pasting a malicious HTML snippet may lead to a
cross-site scripting attack
Description: A cross-site scripting issue existed in the handling of
copied and pasted data in HTML documents. This issue was addressed
through additional validation of pasted content.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-0926 : Aditya Gupta, Subho Halder, and Dev Kar of xys3c
(xysec.com)
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to a cross-
site scripting attack
Description: A cross-site scripting issue existed in the handling of
iframes. This issue was addressed through improved origin tracking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-1012 : Subodh Iyengar and Erling Ellingsen of Facebook
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 3GS and later,
iPod touch (4th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
information disclosure
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in XSSAuditor.
This issue was addressed through improved handling of URLs.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-2848 : Egor Homakov
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Dragging or pasting a selection may lead to a cross-site
scripting attack
Description: Dragging or pasting a selection from one site to
another may allow scripts contained in the selection to be executed
in the context of the new site. This issue is addressed through
additional validation of content before a paste or a drag and drop
operation.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5129 : Mario Heiderich
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 4 and later,
iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to a cross-
site scripting attack
Description: A cross-site scripting issue existed in the handling of
URLs. This issue was addressed through improved origin tracking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2013-5131 : Erling A Ellingsen
Installation note:
This update is available through iTunes and Software Update on your
iOS device, and will not appear in your computer's Software Update
application, or in the Apple Downloads site. Make sure you have an
Internet connection and have installed the latest version of iTunes
from www.apple.com/itunes/
iTunes and Software Update on the device will automatically check
Apple's update server on its weekly schedule. When an update is
detected, it is downloaded and the option to be installed is
presented to the user when the iOS device is docked. We recommend
applying the update immediately if possible. Selecting Don't Install
will present the option the next time you connect your iOS device.
The automatic update process may take up to a week depending on the
day that iTunes or the device checks for updates. You may manually
obtain the update via the Check for Updates button within iTunes, or
the Software Update on your device.
To check that the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad has been updated:
- Navigate to Settings
- Select General
- Select About. The version after applying this update
will be "7.0".
Information will also be posted to the Apple Security Updates
web site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
