[SystemSafety] iOS Mail vulnerability

[Dewi Daniels]

Peter,

Apple should have heard of strong typing. They developed Apple Pascal for
the Apple II. Pascal was selected as the main programming language for the
Apple Lisa. Apple collaborated with Niklaus Wirth to develop Object Pascal
for the Apple Macintosh. They abandoned Object Pascal for C++ when they
moved from the Motorola 68000 to PowerPC in 1994.

Apple must be one of the few software companies to have gone backwards in
the last 25 years.

Yours,

Dewi Daniels | Director | Software Safety Limited

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:20, Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at causalis.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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