About the security content of iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2
This document describes the security content of iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2.
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iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2
Accounts
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8787: Steffen Klee of Secure Mobile Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt
AirDrop
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: AirDrop transfers may be unexpectedly accepted while in Everyone mode
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-8796: Allison Husain of UC Berkeley
App Store
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: A local attacker may be able to log in to the account of a previously logged-in user without valid credentials.
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8803: Kiyeon An, 차민규 (CHA Minkyu)
Associated Domains
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Improper URL processing may lead to data exfiltration
Description: An issue existed in the parsing of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8788: Juha Lindstedt of Pakastin, Mirko Tanania, Rauli Rikama of Zero Keyboard Ltd
Audio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8785: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2019-8797: 08Tc3wBB working with SSD Secure Disclosure
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8795: 08Tc3wBB working with SSD Secure Disclosure
Books
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted iBooks file may lead to disclosure of user information
Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.
CVE-2019-8789: Gertjan Franken of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven
Contacts
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Processing a maliciously contact may lead to UI spoofing
Description: An inconsistent user interface issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2017-7152: Oliver Paukstadt of Thinking Objects GmbH (to.com)
File System Events
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8798: ABC Research s.r.o. working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Graphics Driver
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8784: Vasiliy Vasilyev and Ilya Finogeev of Webinar, LLC
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitisation.
CVE-2019-8794: 08Tc3wBB working with SSD Secure Disclosure
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8786: Wen Xu of Georgia Tech, Microsoft Offensive Security Research Intern
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2019-8829: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero
Setup Assistant
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to force a user onto a malicious Wi-Fi network during device setup
Description: An inconsistency in Wi-Fi network configuration settings was addressed.
CVE-2019-8804: Christy Philip Mathew of Zimperium, Inc
Screen Recording
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: A local user may be able to record the screen without a visible screen recording indicator
Description: A consistency issue existed in deciding when to show the screen recording indicator. The issue was resolved with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8793: Ryan Jenkins of Lake Forrest Prep School
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross-site scripting
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8813: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8782: Cheolung Lee of LINE+ Security Team
CVE-2019-8783: Cheolung Lee of LINE+ Graylab Security Team
CVE-2019-8808: found by OSS-Fuzz
CVE-2019-8811: Soyeon Park of SSLab at Georgia Tech
CVE-2019-8812: JunDong Xie of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2019-8814: Cheolung Lee of LINE+ Security Team
CVE-2019-8816: Soyeon Park of SSLab at Georgia Tech
CVE-2019-8819: Cheolung Lee of LINE+ Security Team
CVE-2019-8820: Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
CVE-2019-8821: Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero
CVE-2019-8822: Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero
CVE-2019-8823: Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may reveal the sites a user has visited
Description: The HTTP referrer header may be used to leak browsing history. The issue was resolved by downgrading all third-party referrers to their origin.
CVE-2019-8827: Artur Janc, Krzysztof Kotowicz, Lukas Weichselbaum, and Roberto Clapis of Google Security Team
WebKit Process Model
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8815: Apple
Wi-Fi
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: An attacker in Wi-Fi range may be able to view a small amount of network traffic
Description: A logic issue existed in the handling of state transitions. This was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-15126: Milos Cermak at ESET
Additional recognition
CFNetwork
We would like to acknowledge Lily Chen of Google for their assistance.
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Daniel Roethlisberger of Swisscom CSIRT, Jann Horn of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Dlive of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab and Zhiyi Zhang of Codesafe Team of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group for their assistance.
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