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About the security content of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6

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# About the security content of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 This document describes the security content of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6. ## About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the [Apple security updates](<https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222>) page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by [CVE-ID](<http://cve.mitre.org/about/>) when possible. For more information about security, see the [Apple Product Security](<https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201220>) page. ![](/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/mac_apps/itunes/divider.png) ## iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 Released July 20, 2022 **APFS** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32832: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03) **AppleAVD** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A remote user may be able to cause kernel code execution Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2022-32788: Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero **AppleAVD** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32824: Antonio Zekic (@antoniozekic) and John Aakerblom (@jaakerblom) **AppleMobileFileIntegrity** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2022-32826: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro **Apple Neural Engine** Available for devices with Apple Neural Engine: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (3rd generation) and later, iPad Air (3rd generation) and later, and iPad mini (5th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2022-42805: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36) Entry added November 9, 2022 **Apple Neural Engine** Available for devices with Apple Neural Engine: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (3rd generation) and later, iPad Air (3rd generation) and later, and iPad mini (5th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2022-32948: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36) Entry added November 9, 2022 **Apple Neural Engine** Available for devices with Apple Neural Engine: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (3rd generation) and later, iPad Air (3rd generation) and later, and iPad mini (5th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2022-32845: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36) Entry updated November 9, 2022 **Apple Neural Engine** Available for devices with Apple Neural Engine: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (3rd generation) and later, iPad Air (3rd generation) and later, and iPad mini (5th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2022-32840: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36) CVE-2022-32829: Tingting Yin of Tsinghua University, and Min Zheng of Ant Group Entry updated September 16, 2022 **Apple Neural Engine** Available for devices with Apple Neural Engine: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (3rd generation) and later, iPad Air (3rd generation) and later, and iPad mini (5th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32810: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36) **Audio** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2022-32820: an anonymous researcher **Audio** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32825: John Aakerblom (@jaakerblom) **CoreMedia** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32828: Antonio Zekic (@antoniozekic) and John Aakerblom (@jaakerblom) **CoreText** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A remote user may cause an unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. CVE-2022-32839: STAR Labs (@starlabs_sg) **File System Events** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2022-32819: Joshua Mason of Mandiant **GPU Drivers** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory Description: Multiple out-of-bounds write issues were addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2022-32793: an anonymous researcher **GPU Drivers** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2022-32821: John Aakerblom (@jaakerblom) **Home** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A user may be able to view restricted content from the lock screen Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2022-32855: Zitong Wu(吴梓桐) from Zhuhai No.1 Middle School(珠海市第一中学) Entry updated September 16, 2022 **iCloud Photo Library** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user information Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2022-32849: Joshua Jones **ICU** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2022-32787: Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of SSD Secure Disclosure Labs & DNSLab, Korea Univ. **ImageIO** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32841: hjy79425575 **ImageIO** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2022-32802: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero, Mickey Jin (@patch1t) **ImageIO** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to disclosure of user information Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2022-32830: Ye Zhang (@co0py_Cat) of Baidu Security **ImageIO** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing an image may lead to a denial-of-service Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2022-32785: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) **IOMobileFrameBuffer** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2022-26768: an anonymous researcher **Kernel** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32813: Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab CVE-2022-32815: Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab **Kernel** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2022-32817: Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab **Kernel** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app with arbitrary kernel read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2022-32844: Sreejith Krishnan R (@skr0x1c0) **Kernel** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app with arbitrary kernel read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2022-32844: Sreejith Krishnan R (@skr0x1c0) **Liblouis** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2022-26981: Hexhive (hexhive.epfl.ch), NCNIPC of China (nipc.org.cn) **libxml2** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to leak sensitive user information Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2022-32823 **Multi-Touch** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2022-32814: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) **PluginKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to read arbitrary files Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2022-32838: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro **Safari Extensions** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may leak sensitive data Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling. CVE-2022-32784: Young Min Kim of CompSec Lab at Seoul National University **Software Update** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A user in a privileged network position can track a user’s activity Description: This issue was addressed by using HTTPS when sending information over the network. CVE-2022-32857: Jeffrey Paul (sneak.berlin) **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. WebKit Bugzilla: 241526 CVE-2022-32885: P1umer(@p1umer) and Q1IQ(@q1iqF) Entry added March 16, 2023 **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2022-32863: P1umer(@p1umer), afang(@afang5472), xmzyshypnc(@xmzyshypnc1) Entry added March 16, 2023 **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Visiting a website that frames malicious content may lead to UI spoofing Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling. WebKit Bugzilla: 239316 CVE-2022-32816: Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of SSD Secure Disclosure Labs & DNSLab, Korea Univ. **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation. WebKit Bugzilla: 240720 CVE-2022-32792: Manfred Paul (@_manfp) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **WebRTC** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. WebKit Bugzilla: 242339 CVE-2022-2294: Jan Vojtesek of Avast Threat Intelligence team **Wi-Fi** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2022-32860: Wang Yu of Cyberserval Entry added November 9, 2022 **Wi-Fi** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2022-32837: Wang Yu of Cyberserval **Wi-Fi** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2022-32847: Wang Yu of Cyberserval ![](/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/mac_apps/itunes/divider.png) ## Additional recognition **802.1X** We would like to acknowledge Shin Sun of National Taiwan University for their assistance. **AppleMobileFileIntegrity** We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security, Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro, and Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing for their assistance. **configd** We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security, Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro, and Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing for their assistance. Information about products not manufactured by Apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by Apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of third-party websites or products. Apple makes no representations regarding third-party website accuracy or reliability. [Contact the vendor](<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2693>) for additional information. Published Date: March 16, 2023


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
ios 15.6
ipados 15.6

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