Apple today released iOS 4.3.4 Software Update which fixes security vulnerability associated with viewing malicious PDF files.
Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 4 (GSM model)
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)
This update is available via iTunes.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bernd” for the heads up.]
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Any other notes?
Or just the PDF exploit fix?
Ironically, jailbreakers have already had this patch since the vulnerability was published.
Always been that way.
Comex etc, always release the fix along with the jailbreak. Apple does have to do testing etc that comex etc already have done.
False analagy, yes they got a patch, but the made their phones ten times MORE vulnerable to malware by rooting (jailbreaking) them.
With a ‘roid phone I can understand rooting; your phone is not that secure to start with (so you aren’t loosing that much security) and tends to have a bunch of carrier craplets and restrictions. However, neither is true with an iPhone, you are VERY secure in default trim AND there are no “carrier add ons” to make your life miserable.
While rooting a ‘roid makes some sense, on an iPhone, other than stealing (service, apps ect), anyone jailbreaking an iPhone should have their fsck’ing head examined.
Well fuck you! I fucking love my jailbroken iPhone 3GS! Stop hiding in your shell, you damn turtle!
ooooo-kaaaaaayyyy….?.?.?.
I get mad sometimes…:)
…touched a raw nerver eh?
False.
Android rooting and iPhone jailbreaking are pretty much the same thing.
And those using sbsettings and stuff like lockinfo ADD functionality to the iPhone that apple IS implementing.
You can have every feature of iOS 5 now…
Jailbroken iPhones are just as secure, and just as insecure… As any iPhone.
The main insecurity with a jailbroken iPhone ALL stem from the SAME vulnerability.
The root password is alpine.
Yep, same as your unjailbroken iPhone.
If you jailbreak, and you turn on ssh.. You had better change that password, those that don’t have problems.
Every jailbreak eventually tries to get to the same point, entering the root password. Alpine. same root password since 2007.
Once they can, They can install cydia/etc.
Don’t forget that almost every new feature of every iOS update, was adapted from the jailbreak scene.
This update is terribly slow. Anyone else experiencing this?
Apple has been slow on everything all day.
Seven mins to download!
ditto; mine only took 7 minutes as well.
Clean livin’ or having a big pipe…
Has to be one of the two;;-)
Took 3 minutes here.
In your dreams???
3 min here also…
I am running iOS5 Beta 3. I wonder if the exploit exists on that and when it might be patched.
Actually, that could be a good way for Apple to test OTA updates to developers…by doing a simple patch.
It’s nothing more than a patch to block the latest jailbreak exploit. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Amazing the entire IOS has to be downloaded for a simple patch. IOS 5 can’t arrive soon enough.
Didn’t Forrestal say that they fixed that in iOS5 to download just the patch. Seems logical if they are going to over-the-air downloads. I believe there was a good deal of applause on that note.
That’s right…hence my comment about IOS 5.
Thought the same thing last year with the daylight savings bug. It hit Australians first, affecting lots of people’s alarm clocks, but Apple didn’t release a fix before the US DST rolled a week or two weeks later.
I gave Apple some choice feedback about screwing up something as basic as an alarm clock, and not being able apply targeted fixes without downloading a half-gigabyte firmware update.
Finally, after trying to synch five times this morning and getting the message that my iPad was “not authorized”!