Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 2: Fun with FaceTime

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero FaceTime is Apple’s video conferencing application for iOS and Mac. It is closed source, and does not appear to use any third-party libraries for its core functionality. I wondered whether fuzzing the contents of FaceTime’s audio and video streams would...

Apple iOS FaceTime Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices developed by Apple Inc. FaceTime is a video calling program. A security vulnerability exists in the FaceTime component of Apple iOS versions prior to 12.1. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a memory leak memory corruption...

iOS 12.1 Vulnerability

This is really just to point out that computer security is really hard: Almost as soon as Apple released iOS 12.1 on Tuesday, a Spanish security researcher discovered a bug that exploits group Facetime calls to give anyone access to an iPhone users' contact information with no need for a passcode...

FaceTime - 'readSPSandGetDecoderParams' Stack Corruption

There are a variety of problems that occur when processing malformed H264 streams in readSPSandGetDecoderParams, leading to OOB read, OOB write and stackchk crashes. I think the root cause is stack corruption. This issue can occur if someone accepts a malicious FaceTime call. To reproduce the...

FaceTime - RTP Video Processing Heap Corruption

FaceTime - RTP Video Processing Heap Corruption There is a memory corruption issue when processing a malformed RTP video stream in FaceTime that leads to a kernel panic due to a corrupted heap cookie or data abort. This bug can be reached if a user accepts a call from a malicious caller. This iss...

FaceTime - readSPSandGetDecoderParams Stack Corruption

FaceTime - readSPSandGetDecoderParams Stack Corruption There are a variety of problems that occur when processing malformed H264 streams in readSPSandGetDecoderParams, leading to OOB read, OOB write and stackchk crashes. I think the root cause is stack corruption. This issue can occur if someone...

FaceTime - VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame Memory Corruption

FaceTime - VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame Memory Corruption There is a heap corruption vulnerability in VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame which is called by FaceTime. This bug can be reached if a user accepts a call from a malicious peer. The issue can be reproduced using the attached sequence of RTP...

FaceTime - readSPSandGetDecoderParams Stack Corruption Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc FaceTime - readSPSandGetDecoderParams Stack Corruption Exploit There are a variety of problems that occur when processing malformed H264 streams in readSPSandGetDecoderParams, leading to OOB read, OOB write and stackchk crashes. I think the root...

FaceTime - RTP Video Processing Heap Corruption Exploit

Exploit for iOS platform in category dos / poc FaceTime - RTP Video Processing Heap Corruption Exploit There is a memory corruption issue when processing a malformed RTP video stream in FaceTime that leads to a kernel panic due to a corrupted heap cookie or data abort. This bug can be reached if ...

FaceTime - VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame Memory Corruption Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc FaceTime - VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame Memory Corruption Exploit There is a heap corruption vulnerability in VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame which is called by FaceTime. This bug can be reached if a user accepts a call from a malicious peer. The issue...

FaceTime - 'VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame' Memory Corruption

There is a heap corruption vulnerability in VCPDecompressionDecodeFrame which is called by FaceTime. This bug can be reached if a user accepts a call from a malicious peer. The issue can be reproduced using the attached sequence of RTP packets. To reproduce the issue: 1 Build video-replay.c...

FaceTime - RTP Video Processing Heap Corruption

There is a memory corruption issue when processing a malformed RTP video stream in FaceTime that leads to a kernel panic due to a corrupted heap cookie or data abort. This bug can be reached if a user accepts a call from a malicious caller. This issue only affects FaceTime on iOS, it does not cra...

Apple iOS FaceTime Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices developed by Apple Inc. FaceTime is a video calling program. A security vulnerability exists in the FaceTime component of Apple iOS versions prior to 12.1. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code memory corrupti...

Apple Fixes Multiple macOS, iOS Bugs Including a Quirky FaceTime Bug

UPDATE Apple tackled a bevy of vulnerabilities across all its platforms Tuesday, including one that allowed a remote attacker to initiate a FaceTime call by exploiting a bug in some model iPhones, iPads, and iPad Air devices. The wide-ranging security fixes came on the same day Apple announced a...

Have hack found iOS 12.1 a new password bypass vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to foreign media reports, in Apple for iOS 12 released a security patch after a few hours, iOS enthusiast, hacker Jose Rodriguez in iOS 12.1 found yet another vulnerability that can bypass the password using a group FaceTime access to the contact list. As Rodriguez on YouTube uploaded t...

New iPhone Passcode Bypass Found Hours After Apple Releases iOS 12.1

It's only been a few hours since Apple releases iOS 12.1 and an iPhone enthusiast has managed to find a passcode bypass hack, once again, that could allow anyone to see all contacts' private information on a locked iPhone. Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish security researcher, contacted The Hacker News a...

New iPhone Passcode Bypass Found Hours After Apple Releases iOS 12.1

It's only been a few hours since Apple releases iOS 12.1 and an iPhone enthusiast has managed to find a passcode bypass hack, once again, that could allow anyone to see all contacts' private information on a locked iPhone. Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish security researcher, contacted The Hacker News a...

About the security content of iOS 12.1

About the security content of iOS 12.1 This document describes the security content of iOS 12.1. 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. Recen...

All New Privacy and Security Features Coming in macOS 10.14 Mojave

At Worldwide Developer Conference 2018 on Monday, Apple announced the next version of its macOS operating system, and it's called Mojave. Besides introducing new features and improvements of macOS 10.14 Mojave—like Dark Mode, Group FaceTime, Dynamic Desktop, and Finder—at WWDC, Apple also reveale...

The vulnerability of the iOS operating system and the Safari browser allows a hacker to replace the user interface of the FaceTime application.

The vulnerability of the Safari component of the iOS operating system and the Safari browser is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to replace the FaceTime application’s user interface using a specially crafted web page...