In an interesting bit of news this long holiday weekend, hobbyist hacker @tomitokics took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Friday to share what appears to be a proof of concept (PoC) for a use-after-free bug known as CVE-2024-44285 that Apple first introduced in iOS & iPadOS 18.0 and later patched in iOS & iPadOS 18.1.
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Apple says iOS 18.1.1, iPadOS 18.1.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 protect you against actively exploited vulnerabilities
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Apple fixes Advanced Data Protection problems and squishes important bugs with iOS/iPadOS 17.6.1 and 16.7.10, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 and Ventura 13.6.9
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