ShadyShader: Crashing Apple Devices with a Single Click

Introduction A while ago, we discovered an interesting vulnerability in the GPU’s drivers of iPhones, iPads, and macOS computers with M-series chips. Dubbed ShadyShader, this flaw allows a specially crafted shader program to overwhelm Apple’s GPU, causing repeated freezes that ultimately lead to ...

CVE-2023-40441

CVE-2023-40441 describes a resource-exhaustion (DoS) issue caused by processing web content, mitigated by improved input validation. The fixed versions are: iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma 14. The vulnerability affects Apple devices when handling web content (GPU/WebGL contexts) and can lead ...