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Cairo – Samia Sayed – With the launch of the iPhone 13 series, Apple also released iOS 15 for iPhone users, as the operating system is available for all iPhone models launched after 2015 and above iPhone 6s.
At the time of the release, the tech giant revealed that the latest operating system comes with a lot of privacy and security upgrades. Now, an updated support document for the operating system reveals that it has also patched two critical vulnerabilities.
According to the document, these vulnerabilities could have exposed users’ private Apple ID information and in-app search history to malicious third-party apps. The document also claims that the bugs allowed apps to bypass users’ privacy preferences.
Apple releases support documents with nearly every iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS update, and other than the new features and improvements introduced, the document also mentions the vulnerabilities that were patched in the update.
It also updates the document from time to time whenever a vulnerability investigation is completed. The company credits Stephen Troton Smith of the high caffeine content for finding the mentioned weaknesses.
Apple also recently rolled out iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1 updates for iPhone and iPad users, noting that the update is available for iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, and first-generation iPad 5th and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) via remote update in the Settings app on the device.
This is a very minor hardware update but it addresses a vulnerability that could make your Apple iPhone or iPad completely unusable, and the vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Trevor Spinolas last year. As the researcher explained in his blog post, Apple added a home extension name length limit with iOS 15.1.
And after the update, when the HomeKit device’s name is changed to a large string (500,000 characters in Finder’s test), any device running iOS 15.1 or later will be disabled, even after a reboot.