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    About the security content of watchOS 7.1

    This document describes the security content of watchOS 7.1.

    About Apple security updates

    For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page.

    Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.

    For more information about security, see the Apple Product Security page.

    watchOS 7.1

    Released November 5, 2020

    Audio

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-27910: JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    Audio

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-27916: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    CoreAudio

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-10017: Francis working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    CoreAudio

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-27908: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    CVE-2020-27909: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    Entry updated March 16, 2021

    CoreText

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

    CVE-2020-27922: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro

    Entry added March 16, 2021

    Crash Reporter

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges

    Description: An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved path sanitization.

    CVE-2020-10003: Tim Michaud (@TimGMichaud) of Leviathan

    FontParser

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit for this issue exists in the wild.

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-27930: Google Project Zero

    FontParser

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

    CVE-2020-27927: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    Foundation

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A local user may be able to read arbitrary files

    Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

    CVE-2020-10002: James Hutchins

    ImageIO

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-27924: Lei Sun

    Entry added March 16, 2021

    ImageIO

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-27912: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    CVE-2020-27923: Lei Sun

    Entry updated March 16, 2021

    IOAcceleratorFamily

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

    CVE-2020-27905: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)

    Kernel

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A malicious application may be able to disclose kernel memory. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit for this issue exists in the wild.

    Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed.

    CVE-2020-27950: Google Project Zero

    Kernel

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout

    Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

    CVE-2020-9974: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03)

    Kernel

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

    CVE-2020-10016: Alex Helie

    Kernel

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit for this issue exists in the wild.

    Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling.

    CVE-2020-27932: Google Project Zero

    libxml2

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution

    Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

    CVE-2020-27917: found by OSS-Fuzz

    CVE-2020-27920: found by OSS-Fuzz

    Entry updated March 16, 2021

    libxml2

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation.

    CVE-2020-27911: found by OSS-Fuzz

    Logging

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges

    Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.

    CVE-2020-10010: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03)

    Symptom Framework

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges

    Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

    CVE-2020-27899: 08Tc3wBB working with ZecOps

    Entry added December 15, 2020

    WebKit

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

    CVE-2020-27918: Liu Long of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

    Entry updated March 16, 2021

    XNU

    Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later

    Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions

    Description: Multiple issues were addressed with improved logic.

    CVE-2020-27935: Lior Halphon (@LIJI32)

    Entry added December 15, 2020

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    Published Date: November 02, 2023
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