About the security content of iOS 8.2

This document describes the security content of iOS 8.2.

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Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.

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iOS 8.2

  • CoreTelephony

    Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

    Impact: A remote attacker can cause a device to unexpectedly restart

    Description: A null pointer dereference issue existed in CoreTelephony's handling of Class 0 SMS messages. This issue was addressed through improved message validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2015-1063 : Roman Digerberg, Sweden

  • iCloud Keychain

    Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

    Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may be able to execute arbitrary code

    Description: Multiple buffer overflows existed in the handling of data during iCloud Keychain recovery. These issues were addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2015-1065 : Andrey Belenko of NowSecure

  • IOSurface

    Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

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

    Description: A type confusion issue existed in IOSurface's handling of serialized objects. The issue was addressed through additional type checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2015-1061 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • MobileStorageMounter

    Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

    Impact: A malicious application may be able to create folders in trusted locations in the file system

    Description: An issue existed in the developer disk mounting logic which resulted in invalid disk image folders not being deleted. This was addressed through improved error handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2015-1062 : TaiG Jailbreak Team

  • Secure Transport

    Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

    Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept SSL/TLS connections

    Description: Secure Transport accepted short ephemeral RSA keys, usually used only in export-strength RSA cipher suites, on connections using full-strength RSA cipher suites. This issue, also known as FREAK, only affected connections to servers which support export-strength RSA cipher suites, and was addressed by removing support for ephemeral RSA keys.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2015-1067 : Benjamin Beurdouche, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Alfredo Pironti, and Jean Karim Zinzindohoue of Prosecco at Inria Paris

  • Springboard

    Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

    Impact: A person with physical access to the device may be able to see the home screen of the device even if the device is not activated

    Description: An unexpected application termination during activation could have caused the device to show the home screen. The issue was addressed through improved error handling during activation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2015-1064

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