Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS

Re:Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS by c00p3r on Thursday July 02, 2009 @04:01PM (#685068)

This is not a big problem, because the fix can be forsed through its update system, like microsoft doing it.

Similiar vulnerability for Symbian OS is a big thing, because almost no one updates their phone's firmware. =)

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Re:Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS by Sidnicious on Thursday July 02, 2009 @09:58PM (#685511)

Nope, the iPhone doesn't support over-the-air updates. Apple can patch it in the next version of the OS, but no one's gonna get the update without a computer.

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Re:Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS by c00p3r on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:03PM (#686389)

Thank you for providing this information. So, it would be something like "new high-optimized, dramatically improved, much faster build of the OS 3.0".

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Re:Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS by mrduncan on Thursday July 02, 2009 @04:45PM (#685138)

Unless the vulnerability is used to disable the updates. If that was the case, pushing out updates to all of those phones could be quite a lot harder.

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Re:Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS by InkweaverReview on Thursday July 02, 2009 @05:04PM (#685173)

Let's hope they get the update out before someone writes a worm that blocks updates.

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