Security News > 2023 > May > WebKit Under Attack: Apple Issues Emergency Patches for 3 New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apple on Thursday rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and the Safari web browser to address three new zero-day flaws that it said are being actively exploited in the wild.
An anonymous researcher has been acknowledged for reporting the other two issues.
It's worth noting that both CVE-2023-28204 and CVE-2023-32373 were patched as part of Rapid Security Response updates - iOS 16.4.1 and iPadOS 16.4.1 - the company released at the start of the month.
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iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5 - iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later.
iOS 15.7.6 and iPadOS 15.7.6 - iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone SE, iPad Air 2, iPad mini, and iPod touch macOS Ventura 13.4 - macOS Ventura.
News URL
https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/webkit-under-attack-apple-issues.html
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
---|---|---|---|
2023-06-23 | CVE-2023-32373 | Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. | 8.8 |
2023-06-23 | CVE-2023-28204 | Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in multiple products An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. | 6.5 |