Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0.1 to Address SMS Security Vulnerability

[TheMBC]

It's possible. O2 was saying an update would be out tomorrow...

http://gizmodo.com/5327220/your-iph...dom-hijackings-by-tomorrow-ahem-youre-welcome

Which is today in the US.

 

[Rayfire]

Which is today in the US.

I guess it really is serious for them to release it quickly.

 

[ozzyman500]

230.1 MB for 3G. Just finished downloading.

 

[enoC]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.19.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.2 Safari/530.19)

297 MB ~20 mins to download right now

Took me about 5 mins

 

[mike41423]

anyone have a build number?

 

[doobs]

I have 3.0.1 installed now. Looks to be purely a security update to address the nasty SMS vulnerability that has been widely publicized in recent days.

 

[chakraj]

So did you keep your JB, or can you re JB yet. Or do we have to waiit??

 

[ThugZilla]

Does it update the baseband?

 

[braddick]

This is so exciting!*







*But then again, I'm easily amused.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Hrm I never got the prompt but I got a $20 golf app for a buck!
I'm still pleased.

 

[braddick]

Hrm I never got the prompt but I got a $20 golf app for a buck!
I'm still pleased.

I downloaded that early this morning too (and, I don't even golf).
Can you believe it was priced, at the beginning, at $49.99?
Anytime I can get a super expensive app for 99c I must do so even if I don't plan on ever using it.

 

[ozzyman500]

Hrm I never got the prompt but I got a $20 golf app for a buck!
I'm still pleased.

What app is this?

 

[TheShinyMac]

so by jailbreaking now are we still supporting drug dealers

 

[teaguecole]

does 3.1 beta 3 fix the vulnerability... or is my phone going to get a deadly text and explode?

EDIT: sorry this has already been asked... people post way too fast

 

[iphoneftw]

downloading as we speak
good job apple on issuing an update fast

 

[SFStateStudent]

so by jailbreaking now are we still supporting drug dealers

+1 ^^^ I'm standing on the corner of my street; just tossed up some tennis shoes and they're wrapped around the telephone wires. Should be good to go with 3.0.1.....lol

 

[steve77uk]

if anyone can tell me whether it breaks the tethering hack????

 

[ozzyman500]

Build is 7A400

 

[aethelbert]

if anyone can tell me whether it breaks the tethering hack????

Oddly enough, it seems to have disabled tethering on my phone even though my carrier supports it. Strange.

 

[SFStateStudent]

Yup, jacked my wife's tethering and MMS hacks.....

 

[RumMunkey]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17)

if anyone can tell me whether it breaks the tethering hack????

Oddly enough, it seems to have disabled tethering on my phone even though my carrier supports it. Strange.

Was there no carrier update?

 

[Doctor Q]

Apple's explanation sounds rather mild:

Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution.​

But the implications of that little phrase "arbitrary code execution" is of course huge.

 

[IronCross]

Does it break tethering?

I also want to know this.

 

[apfhex]

good job apple on issuing an update fast

I bet this was already fixed in 3.1 (if not in the released beta, then the next one) but they released it because of the public reveal.

I wish SMS worked more like email and I could make it so that I could choose not to receive them unless I checked manually (or at least only receive notification of a message and not the actual message until I told it to).

 

[trekkie604]

anyone installed know if this update does anything else besides patch the sms flaw? Address the crazy lag on my 3G since 3.0, for example.