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iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3

Released December 14, 2020

App Store

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)

Impact: An enterprise application installation prompt may display the wrong domain

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2020-29613: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)

CoreAudio

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2020-27948: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

FontParser

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory

Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2020-27946: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero

FontParser

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the processing of font files. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2020-27943: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero

CVE-2020-27944: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero

CVE-2020-29624: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero

Entry updated December 22, 2020

ImageIO

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2020-29617: XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

CVE-2020-29619: XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

ImageIO

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2020-29618: XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

ImageIO

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2020-29611: Alexandru-Vlad Niculae working with Google Project Zero

Entry updated December 17, 2020

Security

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)

Impact: Unauthorized code execution may lead to an authentication policy violation

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2020-27951: Apple

WebRTC

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 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 use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2020-15969: an anonymous researcher