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Apple Releases iOS 10.3.1 to Address Wi-Fi Vulnerability

For me the following have been broken for months. Numerous correspondence with Apple have failed to fix...

Maybe 10.3.1 will change this...

  1. Safari offline reading list not syncing across devices correctly.
  2. Text replacement not syncing across devices.
  3. For many photos out of sequence since iOS 10.0
 
iOS 10.3.1
Released April 3, 2017

Wi-Fi

Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later

Impact: An attacker within range may be able to execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip

Description: A stack buffer overflow was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2017-6975: Gal Beniamini of Google Project Zero

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207688
 
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Boy this is fast. Sound like an emergency fix based on the time... With what came out in 10.3 and the new stuff from Wikileaks, it could be closing a security hole our govt was using or a bug in the new file system perhaps?
 
C DM said:
It'd be interesting to know exactly what has been fixed/changed. It sounds like at least probably at least some security items, but I guess we'll see.
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Perhaps you should click the link and you may educate yourself.
 
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busyscott said:
I hate when updates don't have specifics on what they are fixing/changing. The worst offender is Facebook who never mentions anything beyond "we push updates periodically to fix things" ....ya, no duh, Facebook.
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Did you bother to click the link?
 
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apolloa said:
Ah good, glad to see Apple on normal form, not testing iOS releases properly, must be hard to do so with all these betas and billions and billions in cash plus endless resources for a platform entirely controlled and made by them..

I don't recall an iOS release that's been smooth and normal in the last three years?
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How many developers would you hire to write a new file system? Do you think it scales linearly with headcount?
 
Is anyone else having problems turning on Game Center (Settings>iCloud>Game Center)? When I turn it on, I just get the progress wheel. Then, it eventually stops and the toggle is still set to off. I'm able to log in under Settings>Game Center, so maybe the iCloud toggle is unnecessary?
 
12vElectronics said:
I'll update in a little.

Maybe I'm hallucinating but my iPhone 7 seemed faster after the 10.3 update!
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You are not wrong. I noticed it too. Earlier on going to the springboard there was this stutter. Also while scrolling through my recent apps. Also when you 3D Touch a notification to respond, the keyboard at times stuttered in appearing. All of which fixed now.
 
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acedout said:
Perhaps you should click the link and you may educate yourself.
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Already clicked, but at the time of my post it wasn't showing anything yet, as is often the case when it comes to security information related to releases that were just released. Context matters.
 
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Orionis said:
You are not wrong. I noticed it too. Earlier on going to the springboard there was this stutter. Also while scrolling through my recent apps. Also when you 3D Touch a notification to respond, the keyboard at times stuttered in appearing.
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Whew glad I'm not crazy! Everything just responds quicker and with less stutter.
 
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Mlrollin91 said:
I mean its only a matter of time until 32bit was no longer going to be supported. It was believed it was going to be iOS 11, but I guess Apple wanted to get it done with sooner. Eventually you will have to upgrade your OS or your device so you will lose access to those apps. I have plenty of 32bit apps as well, but unless the developer decides to update them, we are stuck. I will be updating to 10.3.2 though.


Welcome to iOS. Apple cares about security!
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So does Siri. She just keeps her mouth shut.
PROBLEM SOLVED! ;)
 
C DM said:
Already clicked, but at the time of my post it wasn't showing anything yet, as is often the case when it comes to security information related to releases that were just released. Context matters.
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Context perhaps, but in your case, a better description of the problem would have sufficed.
 
acedout said:
Context perhaps, but in your case, a better description of the problem would have sufficed.
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Everything said applied just fine at the time the comment was made, including the "we'll see" aspect of it implying that at least some of the information will likely come to light soon enough. No "problem" anywhere in that.
 
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wow this update takes a really long time to install even on the iphone 7... and it is so small... i guess it's reformatting everything again?
 
Orionis said:
Coming from an android device (S7 edge) this is cray cray. So many updates and they are available instantly!
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that is the norm for iOS because Apple is in full control.

only android probably only the nexus device get instant update even then it is no where close to iOS
 
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