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iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch

Posted by timothy on from the switched-housemate's-iphone-to-danish dept.

CWmike writes "Apple patched 46 security vulnerabilities in the iPhone and iPod Touch, half of them in the Safari browser and its WebKit rendering engine, as it released iPhone OS 3.0 on Wednesday. One of the patched WebKit vulnerabilities stands out because of the attention it received in March, when a German college student, Nils, walked away with a $5,000 cash prize for hacking Safari at the Pwn2Own challenge. Nils used a bug in WebKit's handling of SVGList objects to crack Safari."

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  1. Re:Well that's just fantastic by njfuzzy · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's entirely possible that an updated 2.X version will come out, later, incorporating fixes. Apple often does that with the Mac OS. (I'm not sure why you're expecting backpatches to be instantaneous.)

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  2. Re:I am disappointed! by tyrione · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not going to point out that you're just being a dick for no reason. Nope. Won't bother to do so.

  3. Re:I am disappointed! by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are a complete idiot.