Apple emits iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS patches to fix three hijack-my-device flaws exploited in the wild

Apple emits iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS patches to fix three hijack-my-device flaws exploited in the wild

Apple on Thursday issued security updates for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS that address three holes reported by Google's Project Zero bug hunters among exploitable flaws found by others. Installing the latest software for your iPhone, iPad and so on will address these programming blunders.


The iPhone giant's security bulletins note that the three flaws discovered and reported by Project Zero – CVE-2020-27930 (remote-code execution), CVE-2020-27950 (kernel memory leak), and CVE-2020-27932 (kernel privilege-escalation) – are being actively exploited in the wild.


CVE-2020-27930 is a bug in Apple's font parser that can be exploited by a specially crafted font to achieve arbitrary code execution. CVE-2020-27950 covers a bug that allows a malicious application to disclose kernel memory. CVE-2020-27950 provides a way for a malicious application to run arbitrary code with ..

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