About Apple security updates
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Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.
watchOS 3.2.2
Released May 15, 2017
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: An application may be able to gain kernel privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-6989: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
CVE-2017-6994: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
CVE-2017-6995: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
CVE-2017-6996: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
CVE-2017-6997: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
CVE-2017-6998: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
CVE-2017-6999: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
Entry updated May 17, 2017
CoreAudio
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2017-2502: Yangkang (@dnpushme) of Qihoo360 Qex Team
CoreFoundation
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: Parsing maliciously crafted data may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-2522: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Entry added May 19, 2017
CoreText
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to application termination
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed through improved validation.
CVE-2017-7003: Jake Davis of SPYSCAPE (@DoubleJake), João Henrique Neves and Stephen Goldberg of Salesforce
Entry updated June 7, 2017
Foundation
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: Parsing maliciously crafted data may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-2523: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Entry added May 19, 2017
IOSurface
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: An application may be able to gain kernel privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed through improved locking.
CVE-2017-6979: Adam Donenfeld (@doadam) of the Zimperium zLabs Team
Entry updated May 17, 2017
Kernel
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed through improved locking.
CVE-2017-2501: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2017-2507: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2017-6987: Patrick Wardle of Synack
SQLite
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: A maliciously crafted SQL query may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed through improved memory management.
CVE-2017-2513: found by OSS-Fuzz
SQLite
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: A maliciously crafted SQL query may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-2518: found by OSS-Fuzz
CVE-2017-2520: found by OSS-Fuzz
SQLite
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: A maliciously crafted SQL query may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-2519: found by OSS-Fuzz
TextInput
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: Parsing maliciously crafted data may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-2524: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
WebKit
Available for: All Apple Watch models
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-2521: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
Additional recognition
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Orr A. of Aleph Research, HCL Technologies for their assistance.