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About the security content of watchOS 2.2.1 - Apple Support

2017-01-2303:54:39
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27

EPSS

0.035

Percentile

91.7%

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Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.

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watchOS 2.2.1

  • CommonCrypto

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: An issue existed in the handling of return values in CCCrypt. This issue was addressed through improved key length management.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1802 : Klaus Rodewig

  • CoreCapture

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1803 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero, daybreaker working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

  • Disk Images

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: A local attacker may be able to read kernel memory

Description: A race condition was addressed through improved locking.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1807 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • Disk Images

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the parsing of disk images. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1808 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro

  • ImageIO

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to a denial of service

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1811 : Lander Brandt (@landaire)

  • IOAcceleratorFamily

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1817 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

CVE-2016-1818: Juwei Lin of TrendMicro, sweetchip@GRAYHASH working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

Entry updated December 13, 2016

  • IOAcceleratorFamily

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed through improved locking.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1819 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • IOAcceleratorFamily

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1813 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • IOHIDFamily

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1823 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

CVE-2016-1824 : Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent

  • Kernel

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1827 : Brandon Azad

CVE-2016-1828 : Brandon Azad

CVE-2016-1829 : CESG

CVE-2016-1830 : Brandon Azad

  • libc

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: A local attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1832 : Karl Williamson

  • libxml2

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted XML may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1833 : Mateusz Jurczyk

CVE-2016-1834 : Apple

CVE-2016-1836 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University

CVE-2016-1837 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University

CVE-2016-1838 : Mateusz Jurczyk

CVE-2016-1839 : Mateusz Jurczyk

CVE-2016-1840 : Kostya Serebryany

  • libxslt

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1841 : Sebastian Apelt

  • MapKit

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: Shared links were sent with HTTP rather than HTTPS. This was addressed by enabling HTTPS for shared links.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1842 : Richard Shupak (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rshupak)

  • OpenGL

Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1847 : Tongbo Luo and Bo Qu of Palo Alto Networks