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Apple watchOS2 Includes Host of Code-Execution Patches

  • September 21, 2015
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by Michael Mimoso   September 21, 2015
 
                                                  



Apple today brought a smile to the face of gadget geeks with the release of watchOS2, and for the second time in five months, a new version of the Apple Watch operating system brought with it a flurry of security patches.

This round includes more than a dozen code execution vulnerabilities in a number of components, along with some certificate validation issues in the CFNetwork. Apple also patched a bug in dlyd, the OS’ dynamic linker, reported by the Pangu Team known for its iOS jailbreak exploits.

Apple said in its advisory that the dyld vulnerability if exploited allowed applications to bypass code signing.
 
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