iOS 8.3 patches another jailbreak exploit

                                                     iOS 8.3 patches another jailbreak exploit

In addition to a prolonged modification log of enhancements, today’s iOS eight.3 unleash additionally includes many security patches. In fact, as MuscleNerd points out, the new code options thirty-nine security patches, rivaling the number found within the jump from iOS seven to iOS eight.

Among the patches is one in every of specific interest, to United States of America anyway, that's attributable to the TaiG prison-breaking Team. It’s labeled  CVE-2015-1087, associated delineate as a backup bug that may permit an assaulter to use the backup system to access restricted areas of the classification system.

Here’s a full summation of the exploit, as listed in Apple’s iOS eight.3 security report:

Backup

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod bit (5th generation) and later, iPad a pair of and later

Impact: associate assaulter could also be able to use the backup system to access restricted areas of the classification system

Description: a difficulty existed within the relative path analysis logic of the backup system. This problems was self-addressed through improved path analysis.

CVE-ID

CVE-2015-1087 : TaiG prison-breaking Team

Of course, iOS 8.1.3 already killed the foremost recent TaiG tool. however the actual fact that Apple has patched another exploit utilized in the team’s hack continues to be price mentioning, provided that we've got currently more matured multiple major iOS releases, with none word of a prison-breaking.

There’s still masses to be hopeful regarding, though. Last month TaiG hosted a serious prison-breaking convention in China with a number of the brightest minds within the community, and in an exceedingly recent missive the Pangu Team aforesaid it might continue its work exploiting iOS devices.