Apple Emergency Security Patch

On 30 November 2023, Apple issued an emergency patch addressing two zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in the wild.

According to the Apple security notice, the flaws impact:

• iOS 17.1.2

• iPadOS 17.1.2

• Safari 17.1.2 in macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura

• macOS Sonoma 14.1.2

The vulnerabilities are identified as:

• CVE-2023-42916: an out-of-bounds read potentially resulting in the disclosure of sensitive information

• CVE-2023-42917: a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.