[HN Gopher] Apple releases emergency update to fix zero-day expl...
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       Apple releases emergency update to fix zero-day exploited in
       attacks
        
       Author : arkadiyt
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-07-10 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
        
       | ratg13 wrote:
       | I've always been curious to know .. with all of the random 0-days
       | in mobile operating systems (iOS, for example)
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       | How do you know that an attacker is not persisting in the system
       | if you click a bad link before a patch gets applied?
        
         | dmitrygr wrote:
         | Persisting in the fs is much harder than just getting code
         | execution. Not impossible (nothing is) but much harder (and
         | thus likely less common), due to signature checking
        
       | wannacboatmovie wrote:
       | What about older OSes? Are they not vulnerable or simply ignored?
        
         | treesknees wrote:
         | Apple only releases Rapid Security Response updates for the
         | latest versions of its operating systems [1]. So any devices
         | running iOS 16.4.X or MacOS 13.3.X won't see one, and anything
         | before that didn't support Rapid Security Response updates.
         | Unfortunately there's not enough information available to know
         | if older releases are vulnerable.
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         | [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201224
        
           | vaxman wrote:
           | > Unfortunately there's not enough information available to
           | know if older releases are vulnerable.
           | 
           | Assume YES.
        
         | vaxman wrote:
         | Hell, what about newer OSes ...like iOS 17 Beta? visionOS 1
         | Beta?
        
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