[SystemSafety] iOS Mail vulnerability

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

https://thehackernews.com/2020/04/zero-day-warning-its-possible-to-hack.html

Well, looky.

[begin quote]

According to cybersecurity researchers at ZecOps, the bugs in question are remote code execution
flaws that reside in the MIME library of Apple's mail app—first, due to an out-of-bounds write bug
and second, is a heap overflow issue.

[end quote]

A hint to the world's second most valuable corporation: there is a technique called strong typing;
it is over half a century old; you might want to check it out.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
Styelfy Bleibgsnd
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs-bi.de





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