Final week Apple launched iOS 17.3, iPadOS 17.3, macOS 14.3, tvOS 17.3, and Safari 17.3 to repair a severe zero-day WebKit vulnerability which will have been exploited within the wild. Forward of the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional launch on Friday, visionOS is getting the identical repair.
In response to Apple’s safety replace web page, visionOS 1.0.2 incorporates only one safety patch. It’s unclear what else is within the replace, nevertheless it possible consists of the identical bug fixes and efficiency enhancements because the 1.0.1 replace that arrived final week. Right here’s how Apple describes the repair:
WebKit (CVE-2024-23222)
- Obtainable for: Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional
- Affect: Processing maliciously crafted net content material could result in arbitrary code execution. Apple is conscious of a report that this situation could have been exploited.
- Description: A sort confusion situation was addressed with improved checks.
- WebKit Bugzilla: 267134
Imaginative and prescient Professional features a related Safari construct because the iPad, so it’ll possible obtain the identical WebKit safety updates transferring ahead. Apple has but to launch a visionOS 1.1 beta, however that can possible arrive subsequent week as soon as individuals have units to check it on.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional arrives in shops on Friday, February 2. Apple is estimated to have bought 200,000 of the $3,499 units through the two-week preorder interval and can possible deal with the launch with a great quantity of fanfare at its shops. There may be at present a countdown clock on its web site that ends at 8am ET. You’ll be able to be taught extra in our full information to the Imaginative and prescient Professional.
