Apple Made a Backported Patch to Secure Old iPhones and iPads

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To protect it’s older iPhones and iPads against remote exploitation attacks, Apple is passing a security update to all of it’s outdated devices.

This update patches the security bug spotted in WebKit – a browser engine used by Safari and other apps. The same was spotted in all new iPhones, iPad, and Macs too, but was secured with a patch last month. The same has been backported to make it suitable for the older Apple devices now.

Securing Old Apple Devices

While every electronic device out there is prone to some form of cyberattack, due to known and unknown bugs, it’s the respective OEMs who’re supposed to respond with a defensive method to avoid them. This would eventually rank up their respect in the community as the best brand to buy something from.

And Apple has gathered that a lot over the years, with it’s stance of securing even outdated devices against cyberattacks. Lately, the company has released patches for securing it’s devices against two security vulnerabilities – that’d let an attacker compromise the target device by making them visit a malicious website.

Understanding the seriousness, Apple now backported this patch to make it suitable for older devices too. It’s aimed at patching the CVE-2022-3289 bug – which is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in WebKit – a web browser engine used by Safari and other apps.

This is aimed at the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPod touch (6th generation), all of them running iOS 12.5.6. In a security advisory published today, Apple said it knew the active explorations happening against their devices, leveraging this bug.

But the company intends to hold back the information on this, just to give enough time for the community to apply patches and secure their devices meanwhile. The bug has been so serious that CISA added this to it’s catalog of exploited vulnerabilities last month, asking the Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to patch it to protect “against active threats.”

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