About the security content of iOS 10.1

This document describes the security content of iOS 10.1.

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iOS 10.1

Released October 24, 2016

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

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

Impact: A signed executable may substitute code with the same team ID

Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of code signatures. This issue was addressed through additional validation.

CVE-2016-7584: Mark Mentovai and Boris Vidolov of Google Inc.

Entry added December 6, 2016

CFNetwork Proxies

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 leak sensitive user information

Description: A phishing issue existed in the handling of proxy credentials. This issue was addressed by removing unsolicited proxy password authentication prompts.

CVE-2016-7579: Jerry Decime

Contacts

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

Impact: An application may be able to maintain access to the Address Book after access is revoked in Settings

Description: An access control issue in the Address Book was addressed through improved file-link validation.

CVE-2016-4686: Razvan Deaconescu, Mihai Chiroiu (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Luke Deshotels, William Enck (North Carolina State University); Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)

CoreGraphics

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

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG file may lead to arbitrary code execution

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

CVE-2016-4673: Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent

FaceTime

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 relayed call to continue transmitting audio while appearing as if the call terminated

Description: User interface inconsistencies existed in the handling of relayed calls. These issues were addressed through improved protocol logic.

CVE-2016-7577: Martin Vigo (@martin_vigo) of salesforce.com

Entry added October 27, 2016

FontParser

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

Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted font may disclose sensitive user information

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed through improved bounds checking.

CVE-2016-4660: Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab

FontParser

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

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of font files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

CVE-2016-4688: Simon Huang of Alipay company, thelongestusernameofall@gmail.com

Entry added November 27, 2016

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 trick a user on a multi-party call into believing they are talking to the other party

Description: An impersonation issue existed in the handling of call switching. This issue was addressed through improved handling of "switch caller" notifications.

CVE-2016-4721: Martin Vigo (@martin_vigo) of salesforce.com

Entry added October 27, 2016

iTunes Backup

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

Impact: An attacker with access to an encrypted iTunes backup may be able to determine the backup password

Description: A password hashing weakness existed in the handling of encrypted iTunes backups. This issue was addressed by removing the weak hash.

CVE-2016-4685: Elcomsoft

Entry added November 14, 2016

Kernel

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 cause an unexpected system termination or arbitrary code execution in the kernel

Description: Multiple input validation issues existed in MIG generated code. These issues were addressed through improved validation.

CVE-2016-4669: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Entry updated November 2, 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 disclose kernel memory

Description: A validation issue was addressed through improved input sanitization.

CVE-2016-4680: Max Bazaliy of Lookout and in7egral

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 execute arbitrary code with root privileges

Description: Multiple object lifetime issues existed when spawning new processes. These were addressed through improved validation.

CVE-2016-7613: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Entry added November 1, 2016

libarchive

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

Impact: A malicious archive may be able to overwrite arbitrary files

Description: An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed through improved path sanitization.

CVE-2016-4679: Omer Medan of enSilo Ltd

libxpc

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 root privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed through additional restrictions.

CVE-2016-4675: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Safari

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 cause a denial-of-service

Description: A denial of service issue was addressed through improved URL handling.

CVE-2016-7581: Sabri Haddouche (@pwnsdx)

Entry updated December 1, 2016

Sandbox Profiles

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

Impact: An application may be able to retrieve metadata of photo directories

Description: An access issue was addressed through additional sandbox restrictions on third party applications.

CVE-2016-4664: Razvan Deaconescu, Mihai Chiroiu (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Luke Deshotels, William Enck (North Carolina State University); Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)

Sandbox Profiles

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

Impact: An application may be able to retrieve metadata of audio recording directories

Description: An access issue was addressed through additional sandbox restrictions on third party applications.

CVE-2016-4665: 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 local attacker can observe the length of a login password when a user logs in

Description: A logging issue existed in the handling of passwords. This issue was addressed by removing password length logging.

CVE-2016-4670: Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software

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-2016-4666: Apple

CVE-2016-4677: An anonymous researcher working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

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-2016-7578: Apple

Entry added October 27, 2016

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