Apple patches critical vulnerabilities in Core Products

[Petrovic]

Today apple released updates for their core platforms, which include iTunes, iOS, Safari, OS X El Capitan, tvOS, and watchOS. Since these products contain shared code, many of the same vulnerabilities exist within multiple Apple products. The good news is that fixing the vulnerability in one product, also resolves it the other ones.

 

Some of the vulnerabilities found in these products, including iOS and OS X, allow remote code execution. Therefore, it is strongly suggested that every install these updates as soon as possible.  If you do not install these updates, then you run the risk of going to malicious sites that could try and execute commands on your device without your permission of knowledge.

 

For a full list of vulnerabilities for each Apple product, you can consult the table below.

Name and information link	Available for	Release date
iTunes 12.4.2 for Windows	Windows 7 and later	18 July 2016
Safari 9.1.2	OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11.6	18 July 2016
tvOS 9.2.1	Apple TV (4th generation)	18 July 2016
watchOS 2.2.2	Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition, and Apple Watch Hermes	18 July 2016
iOS 9.3.3	iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later	18 July 2016
OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 and Security Update 2016-004	OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later	18 July 2016

 

 

Once again, due to the critical nature of some of these vulnerabilities, it is strongly advised that you upgrade your Apple devices as soon as possible.

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