Apple Patches-Up Three Actively Exploited And Identified Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In its iPhone, iPod and iPad Devices

This month Apple released iOS 14.2 and iPad 14.2, which patched up a sum total of 24 vulnerabilities in different parts of the OSes, including sound, crash reporter, kernel, and foundation. 

The multinational technology has fixed up three identified zero-day vulnerabilities in its iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices possibly associated with a spate of related flaws very recently found by the Google Project Zero team that additionally had an impact over Google Chrome and Windows. 

Ben Hawkes from Google Project Zero who was able to identify the zero-day vulnerabilities as "CVE-2020-27930 (RCE), CVE-2020-27950 (memory leak), and CVE-2020-27932 (kernel advantage escalation)," he said in a tweet. 

Apple likewise offered credit to Project Zero for recognizing these particular defects in its security update and gave a little more detail on each.

CVE-2020-27930 is 'a memory corruption flaw' in the FontParser on iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4 and later, as indicated by Apple. 

The vulnerabilities take into account an attacker to process a “maliciously crafted font” that can prompt arbitrary code execution.

Apple described CVE-2020-27950 as a memory initialization issue in the iOS kernel that influences iPhone 6s and later, iPod tough 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad smaller than usual 4 and later. 

The defect would permit a pernicious application to reveal kernel memory, according to the company. The Apple update comes along with the ..

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