Users urged to update their iPhone,iPad, Mac, and Apple TV and Apple Watch to prevent attackers taking over devices with malicious imagesA flaw in the way Apple software handles images allows hackers to take over an iPhone,iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac or Apple TV with a simple iMessage or email.
The vulnerability in Apple’s picture-handling Image I/O API means that a malicious Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) file can force a so-called buffer overflow,which allows a hacker to rupture through Apple’s security and sprint their own code on a device.
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Source: theguardian.com