December 11, 2024 at 01:33PM
Multiple vulnerabilities in watchOS 11.2, identified as CVE-2024-54526, CVE-2024-54527, CVE-2024-54513, and others, have been addressed through improved checks, added restrictions, and better memory handling. These may allow unauthorized access to private information or sensitive user data. Updates are available for Apple Watch Series 6 and later.
### Meeting Takeaways:
1. **Release Information**:
– **Apple ID**: 121843
– **Release Date**: December 11, 2024
– **Affected Product**: watchOS 11.2
– **Updates Available for**: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
2. **Security Vulnerabilities Addressed**:
– **CVE-2024-54526**: Improved checks to prevent malicious app access to private information.
– **CVE-2024-54527**: Improved checks to restrict access to sensitive user data by apps.
– **CVE-2024-54513**: Additional restrictions for permissions issues, limiting sensitive user data access by apps.
– **CVE-2024-54486**: Improved checks to mitigate memory disclosure from processing malicious fonts.
– **CVE-2024-54500 & CVE-2024-54494**: Additional validation against race conditions allowing potentially writable read-only memory mappings.
– **CVE-2024-54510**: Improved locking mechanisms to prevent sensitive kernel state leaks by apps.
– **CVE-2024-45490 & CVE-2024-54514**: Enhanced checks to prevent apps from breaking out of their sandbox environments.
– **CVE-2024-44225**: Improved checks against logic issues that could lead to elevated privileges for apps.
– **CVE-2024-54501, CVE-2024-54479, CVE-2024-54502, CVE-2024-54508, CVE-2024-54505**: Enhanced memory handling to prevent memory corruption due to type confusion issues in web content.
3. **General Impact**:
– Many vulnerabilities could expose sensitive user data or lead to memory corruption.
– Critical updates focus on improving checks and memory handling to enhance security on watchOS.
### Action Items:
– Ensure timely dissemination of this release information and updates to relevant teams.
– Monitor the implementation of security updates in affected devices.