Security News > 2017 > September > Google Researcher Publishes PoC Exploit for Apple iPhone Wi-Fi Chip Hack
2017-09-27 03:49
You have now another good reason to update your iPhone to newly released iOS 11—a security vulnerability in iOS 10 and earlier now has a working exploit publicly available. Gal Beniamini, a security researcher with Google Project Zero, has discovered a security vulnerability (CVE-2017-11120) in Apple's iPhone and other devices that use Broadcom Wi-Fi chips and is hell easy to exploit. This
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-28 | CVE-2017-11120 | Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products On Broadcom BCM4355C0 Wi-Fi chips 9.44.78.27.0.1.56 and other chips, an attacker can craft a malformed RRM neighbor report frame to trigger an internal buffer overflow in the Wi-Fi firmware, aka B-V2017061204. | 9.8 |