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[iPhone] Apple Release iPhone OS 3.0.1 (Fixes SMS Vulnerability)

Apple has today release an update to its iPhone 3.0 OS. The update addresses critical SMS vulnerability which threatend the security of the Apple iPhone.

If you are unaware of the SMS vulnerability, the impact of the vulnerability was with receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message which might lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution.

Apple’s description of the vulnerability says

A memory corruption issue exists in the decoding of SMS messages. Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved error handling. Credit to Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators, and Collin Mulliner of Technical University Berlin for reporting this issue.

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Interestingly, the update itself is 298MB. :) ( I am not surprised, iTunes recently had an update which 80 MB )

Via and Apple Support.

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