About the security content of iOS 8.2

This document describes the security content of iOS 8.2.

For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.

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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