Update Your iPhone Now: iOS 17.4.1 Includes These Security Fixes

Apple today provided details about the security fixes included in last week's iOS 17.4.1 and iPadOS 17.4.1 software updates for the iPhone and...

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Wow!! That is pretty fuc*ed up: Impact: Processing an image may lead to arbitrary code execution
- The very first jailbreak was from a similar exploit, so all someone has to do was visit a website via safari, drag the ever so familiar slide to unlock slider across, triggering the said image to be loaded, and jailbreak the device.
  
  Render time arbitrary execution bugs have also existed in fonts and other benign sounding media types, on all OS and platforms. This is really not that special and is just another high impact security bug that got patched.
  
  It would load a PDF in safari. Back in the good old days of jailbreak.me.
Just a rule of thumb; ALWAYS update your perpetually-connected internet devices when new security updates are pushed.