Apple releases the version of iOS 12.4.1 to fight the jailbreak they were subjected to a few weeks ago. Cupertino’s company worked to fix the bug after Google’s Project Zero team created the report.
Recall that recently the version of iOS 12.4 showed a security breach that allowed a jailbreak, while the company released the security patch to combat it, a “small” bug exposed this hole for the attack, so Apple decided to act quickly to erase its name with this new update of iOS 12.4.1.
What is a prison break?
A jailbreak is a bug that allows you to violate the security or security permissions of a device. In Apple’s case, users could skip root or system administrator permissions to access the device’s internal files.
This would allow someone with knowledge of web development or bad intentions to change Apple’s restrictions on their devices or applications.
This practice is widely used to unlock smartphones so that they can be used by multiple phone operators, although illegal practices are seen as many practices that use this feature to even add new features to the iPhone.
The iOS 12.4.1 security content mentions patching the bug used by the SockPuppet exploit.
Apple also credited me for assistance with the kernel — I credited them for the jailbreak so it seems like they wanted to do the same thing ;P. pic.twitter.com/IvyOgv0G3v
— @Pwn20wnd (@Pwn20wnd) August 26, 2019
Apple has been the victim of a public prison break for iPhones updated over the years, the latest version, released in June, has reintroduced a bug found by a Google analyst that has been fixed in iOS 12.3.
If you don’t want to be a victim of this security bug, we recommend that you install the new version of iOS 12.4.1, that was already in 12.3 but was accidentally removed.
iOS 12.4.1 will soon be available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users via the Settings application. In addition to this mobile OS update, Apple has released updates for tvOS 12.4.1, watchOS 5.3.1 and a new version of macOS Mojave 10.14.6.