iOS 11.2

iOS 11.2 introduces Apple Pay Cash to send, request, and receive money from friends and family with Apple Pay. This update also includes bug fixes and improvements.

Apple Pay Cash (US Only)

• Send, request, and receive money from friends and family with Apple Pay in Messages or by asking Siri

Other improvements and fixes

• Adds support for faster wireless charging on iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X with compatible third-party accessories
• Introduces three new Live wallpapers for iPhone X
• Improves video camera stabilization
• Adds support in Podcasts to automatically advance to the next episode from the same show
• Adds support in HealthKit for downhill snow sports distance as a data type
• Fixes an issue that could cause Mail to appear to be checking for new messages even when a download is complete
• Fixes an issue that could cause cleared Mail notifications from Exchange accounts to reappear
• Improves stability in Calendar
• Resolves an issue where Settings could open to a blank screen
• Fixes an issue that could prevent swiping to Today View or Camera from the Lock Screen
• Addresses an issue that could prevent Music controls from displaying on the Lock Screen
• Fixes an issue that could cause app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home Screen
• Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded
• Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn’t display a map
• Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message
• Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results
• Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly
• Adds support for real-time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings, App Store, and Music
• Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notifications
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Notes from the event.

Apple = Security = important to the customer

Environment 

Health

RUMOR

Apple plans to 'loop you in' at March 21 event with expected new 4" iPhone, 9.7" iPad

reported on the internet

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205635

About the security content of iOS 9.2

This document describes the security content of iOS 9.2.

For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.

For information about the Apple Product Security PGP Key, see How to use the Apple Product Security PGP Key.

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

To learn about other security updates, see Apple security updates.

iOS 9.2

• AppleMobileFileIntegrity

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

  Description: An access control issue was addressed by preventing modification of access control structures.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7055 : Apple

• AppSandbox

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may maintain access to Contacts after having access revoked

  Description: An issue existed in the sandbox's handling of hard links. This issue was addressed through improved hardening of the app sandbox.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7001 : Razvan Deaconescu and Mihai Bucicoiu of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest; Luke Deshotels and William Enck of North Carolina State University; Lucas Vincenzo Davi and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi of TU Darmstadt

• CFNetwork HTTPProtocol

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may be able to bypass HSTS

  Description: An input validation issue existed within URL processing. This issue was addressed through improved URL validation.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7094 : Tsubasa Iinuma (@llamakko_cafe) of Gehirn Inc. and Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea)

• Compression

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

  Description: An uninitialized memory access issue existed in zlib. This issue was addressed through improved memory initialization and additional validation of zlib streams.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7054 : j00ru

• CoreGraphics

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 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 through improved input validation.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7105 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team

• CoreMedia Playback

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

  Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in the processing of malformed media files. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7074 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7075

• dyld

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

  Description: Multiple segment validation issues existed in dyld. These were addressed through improved environment sanitization.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7072 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7079 : PanguTeam

• GPUTools Framework

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

  Description: Multiple path validation issues existed in Mobile Replayer. These were addressed through improved environment sanitization.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7069 : Luca Todesco (@qwertyoruiop)

  CVE-2015-7070 : Luca Todesco (@qwertyoruiop)

• iBooks

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted iBooks file may lead to disclosure of user information

  Description: An XML external entity reference issue existed with iBook parsing. This issue was addressed through improved parsing.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7081 : Behrouz Sadeghipour (@Nahamsec) and Patrik Fehrenbach (@ITSecurityguard)

• ImageIO

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

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

  Description: A memory corruption issue existed in ImageIO. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7053 : Apple

• IOHIDFamily

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

  Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in IOHIDFamily API. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7111 : beist and ABH of BoB

  CVE-2015-7112 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

• IOKit SCSI

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

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

  Description: A null pointer dereference existed in the handling of a certain userclient type. This issue was addressed through improved validation.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7068 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

• Kernel

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A local application may be able to cause a denial of service

  Description: Multiple denial of service issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7040 : Lufeng Li of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team

  CVE-2015-7041 : Lufeng Li of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team

  CVE-2015-7042 : Lufeng Li of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team

  CVE-2015-7043 : Tarjei Mandt (@kernelpool)

• Kernel

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

  Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in the kernel. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7083 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  CVE-2015-7084 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

• Kernel

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

  Description: An issue existed in the parsing of mach messages. This issue was addressed through improved validation of mach messages.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7047 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

• LaunchServices

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

  Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the processing of malformed plists. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7113 : Olivier Goguel of Free Tools Association

• libarchive

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

  Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the processing of archives. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2011-2895 : @practicalswift

• libc

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

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

  Description: Multiple buffer overflows existed in the C standard library. These issues were addressed through improved bounds checking.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7038

  CVE-2015-7039 : Maksymilian Arciemowicz (CXSECURITY.COM)

• libxml2

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted XML document may lead to disclosure of user information

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

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-3807 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University

• MobileStorageMounter

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

  Description: A timing issue existed in loading of the trust cache. This issue was resolved by validating the system environment before loading the trust cache.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7051 : PanguTeam

• OpenGL

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

  Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in OpenGL. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7064 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7065 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7066 : Tongbo Luo and Bo Qu of Palo Alto Networks

• Photos

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: An attacker may be able to use the backup system to access restricted areas of the file system

  Description: A path validation issue existed in Mobile Backup. This was addressed through improved environment sanitization.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7037 : PanguTeam

• QuickLook

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted iWork file may lead to arbitrary code execution

  Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of iWork files. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7107

• Safari

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to user interface spoofing

  Description: An issue may have allowed a website to display content with a URL from a different website. This issue was addressed through improved URL handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7093 : xisigr of Tencent's Xuanwu LAB (www.tencent.com)

• Sandbox

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application with root privileges may be able to bypass kernel address space layout randomization

  Description: An insufficient privilege separation issue existed in xnu. This issue was addressed by improved authorization checks.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7046 : Apple

• Security

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

  Description: A memory corruption issue existed in handling SSL handshakes. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7073 : Benoit Foucher of ZeroC, Inc.

• Security

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A malicious application may gain access to a user's Keychain items

  Description: An issue existed in the validation of access control lists for keychain items. This issue was addressed through improved access control list checks.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7058

• Siri

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to use Siri to read notifications of content that is set not to be displayed at the lock screen

  Description: When a request was made to Siri, client side restrictions were not being checked by the server. This issue was addressed through improved restriction checking.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7080 : Or Safran (www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=33912591)

• WebKit

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

  Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in WebKit. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7048 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7095 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7096 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7097 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7098 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7099 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7100 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7101 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7102 : Apple

  CVE-2015-7103 : Apple

• WebKit

  Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

  Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may reveal a user's browsing history

  Description: An insufficient input validation issue existed in content blocking. This issue was addressed through improved content extension parsing.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-7050 : Luke Li and Jonathan Metzman

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Last Modified: Dec 8, 2015

Mac OS X 10.10.5 Posted

Mac OS 10.10.3 Released

The OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 update includes the new Photos app and improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.

With Photos you can:

• Browse your photos by time and location in Moments, Collections, and Years views
• Navigate your library using convenient Photos, Shared, Albums, and Projects tabs
• Store all of your photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library in their original format and in full resolution
• Access your photos and videos stored in iCloud Photo Library from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com with any web browser
• Perfect your photos with powerful and easy-to-use editing tools that optimize with a single click or slider, or allow precise adjustments with detailed controls
• Create professional-quality photo books with simplified bookmaking tools, new Apple-designed themes, and new square book formats
• Purchase prints in new square and panoramic sizes

It’s easy to upgrade your iPhoto library to Photos - just launch the app to get started. To learn more about Photos, please visit: http://www.apple.com/osx/photos/

This update also includes the following improvements:

• Adds over 300 new Emoji characters
• Adds Spotlight suggestions to Look up
• Prevents Safari from saving website favicon URLs used in Private Browsing
• Improves stability and security in Safari
• Improves WiFi performance and connectivity in various usage scenarios
• Improves compatibility with captive Wi-Fi network environments
• Fixes an issue that may cause Bluetooth devices to disconnect
• Improves screen sharing reliability

For more detailed information about this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204490.

Security Content

For detailed information about the security content of this update, see Apple security updates.

See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5044 article for details on how to verify the authenticity of this download.

Spring forward.

March 9 at 10 a.m. PDT for special event.

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/2015-mar-event/