In the last hours Apple has made available for all users who have their devices (iPhone, iPad) the update iOS 18.4.1 necessary for “Important resolutions of problems, updates to the safety and correction of an error that, in rare cases, prevented the wireless connection in Carplay in any vehicles“, explains Cupertino on the security content.
What are the vulnerabilities
In detail, after the previous updates where new functions have been introduced including emojis and Apple Intelligence, it was discovered that a couple of vulnerabilities in the systems would have exposed the devices to attacks “extremely sophisticated“. The first is in” core audio “, that is, the digital audio infrastructure of Apple for iOS.”The elaboration of an audio flow in a harmful multimedia file could cause code execution “explained Apple. The execution of code could allow third parties of steal Your data or of hack Your device for other illegal purposes “.
The other vulnerability has targeted RPAC, a security measure that Apple uses to prevent BUB from damaging memory. The multinational made it known that the bad guys “With arbitrary reading and writing ability could circumvent this security measure. Memory corruption can compromise the system and lead someone to steal or spread data “. As mentioned at the beginning, but it is a problem of secondary importance and not related to personal safety, a rare problem is also solved for which Carplay was not detected on some means. As the experts explain about HDBLOGboth the flaws in the system were discovered thanks also to the collaboration with “Google Threat Analysis Group”.
How to perform updates
Remembering that also for devices Mac Software update is available MacOS 15.4.1 With Apple that has not specified specific problems but recommends download to all its users, updates with the new iOS security measures can be made by all iPhone XS onwards, by 13 -inch iPad Pro, 13.9 inches of the third generation and subsequent ones, from the first generation and subsequent 11 -inch iPad Pro and from the iPad Air from the third generation onwards.
As always, it will be necessary to go to settings, generals, software update and it will be iOS 18.4.1: for the devices that will have a low battery quantity, the charge will be required to be able to correctly download.