Today Apple has released the latest in it's incremental updated for the 4th Generation iOS platform. According to Apple, this patch offers some minor bugs fixes and security patches. However, it looks like the majority of the reason for the patch, may very well have been to patch up the most recently released security hole that was allowing the untethered Jail Break.Right after the release, @MuscleNerd posted the following on Twitter "ultrasn0w unlockers stay away from today's iOS 4.3.2! Everyone else, make sure you have your 4.3.1 SHSH blobs saved." He next tweeted, "Apple sure is aggressively patching these untethered jailbreaks lately (but that's still better than lawsuits)."
According to Apple, the patch does the following,
- Fixes an issue that occasionally caused blank or frozen video during a FaceTime call
- Fixes an issue that prevented some international users from connecting to 3G networks on iPad Wi-Fi + 3G
- Contains the latest security updates.
This update is Only for the iPhone 4 GSM, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, and 3rd and 4th generation iPod Touch. It is not currently available for the Verizon iPhone and as you likely know, the iPhones 3G and older are End of Line. No more updates for them. As well and the iPod Touches 1st and 2nd Generation.
Based on the info on latest mac security patch update, the 4.3.2 and 4.2.7 updates were released to patch the recent theft of security certificates.
ReplyDeleteSecurity Update 2011-002
Certificate Trust Policy
Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.7, Mac OS X Server v10.6.7
Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept user credentials or other sensitive information
Description: Several fraudulent SSL certificates were issued by a Comodo affiliate registration authority. This may allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to redirect connections and intercept user credentials or other sensitive information. This issue is addressed by blacklisting the fraudulent certificates.
Note: For iOS, this issue is addressed with iOS 4.3.2 and iOS 4.2.7. For Windows systems, Safari relies on the certificate store of the host operating system to determine if an SSL server certificate is trustworthy. Applying the update described in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2524375 will cause Safari to regard these certificates as untrusted. The article is available at http://support.microsoft.com/k...