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P for Privacy – The Background Story of CVE-2020-9773

Affected Component: all iOS versions < 14.0 LSDIconCache Latest Vulnerable Version: iOS 13.7 Vendor: Apple, Inc. CVE: CVE-2020-9773 Disclosure Timeline Bug discovered: December 1st, 2019 Vendor notified: December 17th, 2019 First patch attempt: March 24th, 2020  Final patch released: September 15th, 2020 Summary A sandboxed application can circumvent updated iOS […]

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WhatsApp Buffer Overflow Vulnerability: Under the Scope

Researcher: Chilik Tamir (@_coreDump)   Recently, Zimperium blogged about the new WhatsApp vulnerability disclosed by Facebook on May 13th. This vulnerability was reportedly exploited in the wild, and it was designated as CVE-2019-3568. A previous post by Zimperium gave some preliminary information about the vulnerability, impacted WhatsApp products, an alleged […]

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