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Apple released patches for recently disclosed WebKit zero-day in older iPhones and iPads

Apple released new security updates for older iPhone and iPad devices addressing recently fixed WebKit zero-day.

Apple has released new updates to backport patches released this month to older iPhone and iPad devices addressing the CVE-2022-32893 flaw.

The CVE-2022-32893 flaw is an out-of-bounds issue that impacts WebKit. An attacker can trigger the flaw by tricking target devices into processing maliciously crafted web content to achieve arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.

On August 19, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added seven new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including the Apple zero-day.

Today Apple released a new security advisory to describe the security content of iOS 12.5.6.

The company released new updates to address the issues in iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPod touch (6th generation) running iOS 12.5.6.

Apple urges users to install these iOS security updates as soon as possible to prevent potential exploitation of the vulnerability.

The IT giant has addressed other six zero-day vulnerabilities since January, below is the list of fixed issues:

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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