About the security content of iOS 12.1.3
This document describes the security content of iOS 12.1.3.
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iOS 12.1.3
AppleKeyStore
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-6235: Brandon Azad
Bluetooth
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-6200: an anonymous researcher
Core Media
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2019-6202: Fluoroacetate working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2019-6221: Fluoroacetate working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
CoreAnimation
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2019-6231: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
CoreAnimation
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-6230: Proteas, Shrek_wzw and Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
FaceTime
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to initiate a FaceTime call causing arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-6224: natashenka of Google Project Zero
IOKit
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-6214: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-6225: Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero, Qixun Zhao of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-6210: Ned Williamson of Google
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may cause unexpected changes in memory shared between processes
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved lock state checking.
CVE-2019-6205: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2019-6213: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: An out-of-bounds read issue existed that led to the disclosure of kernel memory. This was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-6209: Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may cause unexpected changes in memory shared between processes
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-6208: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero
Keyboard
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Password autofill may fill in passwords after they were manually cleared
Description: An issue existed with autofill resuming after it was canceled. The issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-6206: Sergey Pershenkov
libxpc
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-6218: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Natural Language Processing
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted message may lead to a denial of service
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-6219: Authier Thomas
Safari Reader
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack
Description: A cross-site scripting issue existed in Safari. This issue was addressed with improved URL validation.
CVE-2019-6228: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)
SQLite
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A maliciously crafted SQL query may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-20346: Tencent Blade Team
CVE-2018-20505: Tencent Blade Team
CVE-2018-20506: Tencent Blade Team
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-6227: Qixun Zhao of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
CVE-2019-6233: G. Geshev from MWR Labs working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2019-6234: G. Geshev from MWR Labs working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-6229: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-6215: Lokihardt of Google Project Zero
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th 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-2019-6212: Mike Zhang from The Pangu team, Wen Xu of SSLab at Georgia Tech
CVE-2019-6216: Fluoroacetate working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2019-6217: Fluoroacetate working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Proteas, Shrek_wzw, and Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
CVE-2019-6226: Apple
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8570: James Lee (@Windowsrcer) of S2SWWW.com
WebRTC
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-6211: Georgi Geshev (@munmap), Fabi Beterke (@pwnfl4k3s), and Rob Miller (@trotmaster99) of MWR Labs (@mwrlabs) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Additional recognition
mDNSResponder
We would like to acknowledge Fatemah Alharbi of University of California, Riverside (UCR) and Taibah University (TU), Feng Qian of University of Minnesota – Twin City, Jie Chang of LinkSure Network, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh of University of California, Riverside (UCR), Yuchen Zhou of Northeastern University, Zhiyun Qian of University of California, Riverside (UCR) for their assistance.
Safari Reader
We would like to acknowledge Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com) for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge James Lee (@Windowsrcer) of Kryptos Logic for their assistance.
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