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Apple on Monday patched a zero-day vulnerability in its iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating systems, only a week after issuing a set of OS updates addressing about three dozen other flaws.
The bug, CVE-2021-30807, was found in the iGiant s IOMobileFrameBuffer code, a kernel extension for managing the screen frame buffer that could be abused to run malicious code on the affected device.
CVE-2021-30807, credited to an anonymous researcher, has been addressed by undisclosed but purportedly improved memory handling code. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges, the iDevice maker said in one of its duplicative advisories. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.
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