iPhone firmware v2.1 fixes serious security issues
September 13, 2008 by James
It appears that apart of fixing iPhone 3G mobile internet connection speeds, crashing AppStore apps, and other issues that plagued iPhone owners, the newly released iPhone firmware v2.1 contained a number of security patches for the device that were not mentioned in its official release notes.
According to an Apple support database posting, iPhone firmware v2.1 also fixes multiple security vulnerabilities previously contained in Application Sandbox, CoreGraphics, mDNSResponder, Networking, Passcode Lock, and WebKit components of iPhone’s OS X operating system.
Exploits that were fixed include but are not limited to remote arbitrary code execution crashes, TCP spoofing/hijacking, DNS cache poisoning, and more.
As such it’s highly recommended for all iPhone owners to update to firmware v2.1 in order to avoid these issues.
It needs to be noted that not all security exploits were eliminated with iPhone firmware v2.1 — Zibro, the creator of ZiPhone iPhone unlocking and jailbreaking software, just announced yesterday that he is aware of a potentially critical iPhone exploit that crashes devices running firmware v2.1.
Tags: app, Apple, application, apps, appstore, hack, iPhone, jailbreak, News, OS, unlock
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iPhone firmware v2.1 fixes serious security issues
Article by James
My name is James Farlow, I'm 23 years of age, attending university in computers engineering and apart of that I enjoy blogging here and now for a few sites. The phone that I currently use is a custom modded white iPhone 4 but am really looking forward to iPhone 5.
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