If at first you don’t succeed… release it anyway and fix it later. This seems to be the thinking over at Apple, as the tech giant has released multiple patches for security holes in the iPhone’s OS.
The flaws exist in all iPhone versions from 1.0 to 3.01. If you think you were safe by being an iPod Touch owner,
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tunately many of the flaws also included iPhone OS for iPod Touch versions 1.1 to 3.0.
In total, Apple fixed 10 iPhone bugs and 4 in its QuickTime multimedia platform, all of which would give a hacker the power to completely control the gadget.
One flaw was related to a bug that Apple had hurriedly patched inJuly this year, just one day after security researchers demonstrated how hackers could hijack an iPhone using a series of malicious text messages.
The latest iPhone OS has also had problems with its CoreAudio, which created a heap buffer overflow when handling AAC and MP3 files. If you tried to open a malicious AAC or MP3 file, you would find yourself with the unfortunate side-effect of crashed software.
Vulnerabilities are also found in Exchange Support, MobileMail, Recovery Mode, Telephony and UIKit.
Both the iPhone and iPod Touch updates are available on Itunes. The QuickTime patch in version 7.6.4 is able to be accessed through the automatic updating software in both Mac OS X and Windows.