In improver to the AirPort Extreme update free earlier today , Apple has release update for the iPhone , Safari 3 genus Beta and Security Update 2007 - 007 1.0 .
iPhone 1.0.1 was released and is available through iTunes when the iPhone is connected . agree to Apple , the iPhone update fixes two security department issue in Safari , two in WebKit and one issue with WebCore .
One issue that was limit in the iPhone ’s Safari Web web internet browser was that it gave a web site the ability to allow transverse - site scripting . A raceway condition in Sir Frederick Handley Page updating combined with HTTP redirection could allow JavaScript from one Sir Frederick Handley Page to qualify a redirected pageboy . This could allow cookies and pages to be record or arbitrarily modify . The other issue fixed in Safari could take to arbitrary code execution if a drug user visited a maliciously crafted web page .
WebCore was update to fix an issue that allowed a malicious website to permit transversal - site requests . Similar to the Safari issue , an assaulter could spark a cross - site scripting using this defect .
The WebKit issuing that were gear up tangled appear - alike characters in a URL that could be used to masquerade a website and a maliciously crafted site that could direct to an unexpected program terminus or arbitrary computer code execution .
It was widely account that protection researchers were arrange to bring out details of a critical security flaw in the iPhone at the Black Hat 2007 conference this week . The iPhone update desexualise the flaw before the conference .
The note provide with Safari beta 3.0.3 only say that the update meliorate security and stability . The update is available via the software update mechanism in Mac OS X.
Security Update 2007 - 007 1.0improves the security for several components of the operating system including bzip2 , CFNetwork , Core Audio , cscope , gnuzip , Kerberos , mDNSResponder , PDFKit , PHP , Quartz Composer , samba , WebKit and WebCore
Update : total more info about the security measures updates on the iPhone .
