About the security content of watchOS 2.2.1
This document describes the security content of watchOS 2.2.1.
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watchOS 2.2.1
CommonCrypto
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: An issue existed in the handling of return values in CCCrypt. This issue was addressed through improved key length management.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1802 : Klaus Rodewig
CoreCapture
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1803 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero, daybreaker working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
Disk Images
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: A local attacker may be able to read kernel memory
Description: A race condition was addressed through improved locking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1807 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Disk Images
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the parsing of disk images. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1808 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro
ImageIO
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to a denial of service
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1811 : Lander Brandt (@landaire)
IOAcceleratorFamily
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1817 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2016-1818: Juwei Lin of TrendMicro, sweetchip@GRAYHASH working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
Entry updated December 13, 2016
IOAcceleratorFamily
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed through improved locking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1819 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
IOAcceleratorFamily
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1813 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
IOHIDFamily
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1823 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2016-1824 : Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1827 : Brandon Azad
CVE-2016-1828 : Brandon Azad
CVE-2016-1829 : CESG
CVE-2016-1830 : Brandon Azad
libc
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: A local attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1832 : Karl Williamson
libxml2
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted XML may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1833 : Mateusz Jurczyk
CVE-2016-1834 : Apple
CVE-2016-1836 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University
CVE-2016-1837 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University
CVE-2016-1838 : Mateusz Jurczyk
CVE-2016-1839 : Mateusz Jurczyk
CVE-2016-1840 : Kostya Serebryany
libxslt
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1841 : Sebastian Apelt
MapKit
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: Shared links were sent with HTTP rather than HTTPS. This was addressed by enabling HTTPS for shared links.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1842 : Richard Shupak (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rshupak)
OpenGL
Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1847 : Tongbo Luo and Bo Qu of Palo Alto Networks
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