About the security content of iOS 10

This document describes the security content of iOS 10.

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iOS 10

Released September 13, 2016

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A local application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

Description: A validation issue existed in the task port inheritance policy. This issue was addressed through improved validation of the process entitlement and Team ID.

CVE-2016-4698: Pedro Vilaça

Entry added September 20, 2016

Assets

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to block a device from receiving software updates

Description: An issue existed in iOS updates, which did not properly secure user communications. This issue was addressed by using HTTPS for software updates.

CVE-2016-4741: Raul Siles of DinoSec

Audio

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2016-4702: YoungJin Yoon, MinSik Shin, HoJae Han, Sunghyun Park, and Taekyoung Kwon of Information Security Lab, Yonsei University

Entry added September 20, 2016

Certificate Trust Policy

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Update to the certificate trust policy

Description: The certificate trust policy was updated. The complete list of certificates may be viewed at https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204132.

Entry added September 20, 2016

CFNetwork

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A local user may be able to discover websites a user has visited

Description: An issue existed in Local Storage deletion. This issue was addressed through improved Local Storage cleanup.

CVE-2016-4707: an anonymous researcher

Entry added September 20, 2016

CFNetwork

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may compromise user information

Description: An input validation issue existed in the parsing of the set-cookie header. This issue was addressed through improved validation checking.

CVE-2016-4708: Dawid Czagan of Silesia Security Lab

Entry added September 20, 2016

CommonCrypto

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application using CCrypt may disclose sensitive plaintext if the output and input buffer are the same

Description: An input validation issue existed in corecrypto. This issue was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2016-4711: Max Lohrmann

Entry added September 20, 2016

CoreCrypto

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2016-4712: Gergo Koteles

Entry added September 20, 2016

FontParser

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory

Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of font files.

This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

CVE-2016-4718: Apple

Entry added September 20, 2016

GeoServices

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to read sensitive location information

Description: A permissions issue existed in PlaceData. This issue was addressed through improved permission validation.

CVE-2016-4719: Razvan Deaconescu, Mihai Chiroiu (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Luke Deshotels, William Enck (North Carolina State University); Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)

IDS - Connectivity

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of Call Relay. This issue was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2016-4722: Martin Vigo (@martin_vigo) of salesforce.com

Entry added September 20, 2016

IOAcceleratorFamily

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2016-4724: Cererdlong, Eakerqiu of Team OverSky

Entry added September 20, 2016

IOAcceleratorFamily

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may result in the disclosure of process memory

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2016-4725: Rodger Combs of Plex, Inc.

Entry added September 20, 2016

IOAcceleratorFamily

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2016-4726: an anonymous researcher

Entry added September 20, 2016

Kernel

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A local application may be able to access restricted files

Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed through improved path validation.

CVE-2016-4771: Balazs Bucsay, Research Director of MRG Effitas

Entry added September 20, 2016

Kernel

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: A lock handling issue was addressed through improved lock handling.

CVE-2016-4772: Marc Heuse of mh-sec

Entry added September 20, 2016

Kernel

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to determine kernel memory layout

Description: Multiple out-of-bounds read issues existed that led to the disclosure of kernel memory. These were addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2016-4773: Brandon Azad

CVE-2016-4774: Brandon Azad

CVE-2016-4776: Brandon Azad

Entry added September 20, 2016

Kernel

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An untrusted pointer dereference was addressed by removing the affected code.

CVE-2016-4777: Lufeng Li of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team

Entry added September 20, 2016

Kernel

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2016-4778: CESG

Entry added September 20, 2016

Keyboards

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Keyboard auto correct suggestions may reveal sensitive information

Description: The iOS keyboard was inadvertently caching sensitive information. This issue was addressed through improved heuristics.

CVE-2016-4746: Antoine M of France

libxml2

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Multiple issues in libxml2, the most significant of which may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2016-4658: Nick Wellnhofer

CVE-2016-5131: Nick Wellnhofer

Entry added September 20, 2016

libxslt

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2016-4738: Nick Wellnhofer

Entry added September 20, 2016

Mail

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may be able to intercept mail credentials

Description: An issue existed when handling untrusted certificates. This was addressed by terminating untrusted connections.

CVE-2016-4747: Dave Aitel

Messages

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Messages may be visible on a device that has not signed in to Messages

Description: An issue existed when using Handoff for Messages. This issue was resolved via better state management.

CVE-2016-4740: Step Wallace

Printing UIKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An unencrypted document may be written to a temporary file when using AirPrint preview

Description: An issue existed in AirPrint preview. This was addressed through improved environment sanitization.

CVE-2016-4749: Scott Alexander (@gooshy)

Entry updated September 12, 2018

S2 Camera

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2016-4750: Jack Tang (@jacktang310) and Moony Li of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

Entry added September 20, 2016

Safari Reader

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Enabling the Safari Reader feature on a maliciously crafted webpage may lead to universal cross site scripting

Description: Multiple validation issues were addressed through improved input sanitization.

CVE-2016-4618: Erling Ellingsen

Entry added September 20, 2016 and updated September 23, 2016.

Sandbox Profiles

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine whom a user is texting

Description: An access control issue existed in SMS draft directories. This issue was addressed by preventing apps from stat'ing the affected directories.

CVE-2016-4620: Razvan Deaconescu, Mihai Chiroiu (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Luke Deshotels, William Enck (North Carolina State University); Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)

Security

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

Description: A validation issue existed in signed disk images. This issue was addressed through improved size validation.

CVE-2016-4753: Mark Mentovai of Google Inc.

Entry added September 20, 2016

Springboard

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Sensitive data may be exposed in application snapshots presented in the Task Switcher

Description: An issue existed in Springboard which displayed cached snapshots containing sensitive data in the Task Switcher. This issue was addressed by displaying updated snapshots.

CVE-2016-7759: Fatma Yılmaz of Ptt Genel Müdürlüğü from Ankara

Entry added January 17, 2017

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A parsing issue existed in the handling of error prototypes. This was addressed through improved validation.

CVE-2016-4728: Daniel Divricean

Entry added September 20, 2016

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may leak sensitive data

Description: A permissions issue existed in the handling of the location variable. This was addressed though additional ownership checks.

CVE-2016-4758: Masato Kinugawa of Cure53

Entry added September 20, 2016

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2016-4611: Apple

CVE-2016-4729: Apple

CVE-2016-4730: Apple

CVE-2016-4731: Apple

CVE-2016-4734: Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero

CVE-2016-4735: André Bargull

CVE-2016-4737: Apple

CVE-2016-4759: Tongbo Luo of Palo Alto Networks

CVE-2016-4762: Zheng Huang of Baidu Security Lab

CVE-2016-4766: Apple

CVE-2016-4767: Apple

CVE-2016-4768: Anonymous working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

Entry added September 20, 2016

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: A malicious website may be able to access non-HTTP services

Description: Safari's support of HTTP/0.9 allowed cross-protocol exploitation of non-HTTP services using DNS rebinding. The issue was addressed by restricting HTTP/0.9 responses to default ports and canceling resource loads if the document was loaded with a different HTTP protocol version.

CVE-2016-4760: Jordan Milne

Entry added September 20, 2016

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved state management.

CVE-2016-4733: Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero

CVE-2016-4765: Apple

Entry added September 20, 2016

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to intercept and alter network traffic to applications using WKWebView with HTTPS

Description: A certificate validation issue existed in the handling of WKWebView. This issue was addressed through improved validation.

CVE-2016-4763: an anonymous researcher

Entry added September 20, 2016

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved state management.

CVE-2016-4764: Apple

Entry added November 3, 2016

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