Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs - Update Now
Jan 23, 2024
Vulnerability / Device Security
Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-23222 , is a type confusion bug in the WebKit browser engine that could be exploited by a threat actor to achieve arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously crafted web content. The tech giant said the problem was fixed with improved checks. Type confusion vulnerabilities , in general, could be weaponized to perform out-of-bounds memory access, or lead to a crash and arbitrary code execution. In a terse advisory, Apple acknowledged it's "aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited," but did not share any other specifics about the nature of attacks or the threat actors leveraging the shortcoming. The updates are available for the following devices and operating systems - iOS 17.3 and iPadOS 17.3 - iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch