About the security content of iOS 15.8 and iPadOS 15.8
This document describes the security content of iOS 15.8 and iPadOS 15.8.
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iOS 15.8 and iPadOS 15.8
Released October 25, 2023
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (4th generation), and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2023-32434: Georgy Kucherin (@kucher1n), Leonid Bezvershenko (@bzvr_), Boris Larin (@oct0xor), and Valentin Pashkov of Kaspersky
Entry updated October 25, 2023
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