On 5th of December Apple released security updates to address vulnerabilities in iOS and some of these vulnerabilities can be used by the attackers to take control of unpatched system. The below you can see the following vulnerabilities were fixed.
Happy patching!
Airport
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4303: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Disk Images
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4465: Pangu Team
FaceTime
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A local attacker may be able to view contacts from the lock screen
Description: A lock screen issue allowed access to contacts on a locked device. This issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4430: videosdebarraquito
File Provider
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to learn information about the presence of other applications on the device
Description: This issue was addressed with improved entitlements.
CVE-2018-4446: Luke Deshotels, Jordan Beichler, and William Enck of North Carolina State
University; Costin Carabaș and Răzvan Deaconescu of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2018-4460: Kevin Backhouse of Semmle Security Research Team
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4431: An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to
Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2018-4435: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero, Juwei Lin(@panicaII) and Junzhi Lu of TrendMicro Mobile Security Team
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4447: Juwei Lin(@panicaII) and Zhengyu Dong of TrendMicro Mobile Security Team
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4461: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
LinkPresentation
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted email may lead to user interface spoofing
Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4429: Victor Le Pochat of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven
Profiles
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: An untrusted configuration profile may be incorrectly displayed as verified
Description: A certificate validation issue existed in configuration profiles. This was addressed with additional checks.
CVE-2018-4436: James Seeley @Code4iOS, Joseph S. of Wyong High School
Safari
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to user interface spoofing
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-4439: xisigr of Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab (tencent.com)
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4440: Wenxu Wu of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab (xlab.tencent.com)
Impact: A user may be unable to fully delete browsing history
Description: “Clear History and Website Data” did not clear the history. The issue was addressed with improved data deletion.
CVE-2018-4445: William Breuer
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4441: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
CVE-2018-4442: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
CVE-2018-4443: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A logic issue existed resulting in memory corruption. This was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4438: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4437: HyungSeok Han, DongHyeon Oh, and Sang Kil Cha of KAIST Softsec Lab, Korea
CVE-2018-4464: HyungSeok Han, DongHyeon Oh, and Sang Kil Cha of KAIST Softsec Lab, Korea