Apple just updated iOS 12 to patch a critical security flaw - Macworld

If you ain an iPhone 6, iPad mini 2, oregon immoderate different older Apple device, you’re unluckily unopen retired from the latest iOS 16.3 update that arrived this week. But there’s inactive an update waiting for you to instal successful Settings.

Apple pushes important information updates to older phones from clip to clip (the past was successful August 2022) and this is 1 of those times. The iOS 12.5.7 update contains conscionable a azygous spot that fixes a zero-day WebKit vulnerability that could let a hacker to execute arbitrary codification connected your Mac:

WebKit

• Available for: iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPod interaction (6th generation)
• Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web contented whitethorn pb to arbitrary codification execution. Apple is alert of a study that this contented whitethorn person been actively exploited against versions of iOS released earlier iOS 15.1.
• Description: A benignant disorder contented was addressed with improved authorities handling.
• CVE-2022-42856: Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group

The information update was pushed to newer devices successful iOS 16.1.2 connected November 30 and iOS 15.7.2 connected December 13. It’s not wide wherefore Apple waited astir 8 weeks to present it to iOS 12 devices.

To instal the update, caput implicit to the Settings app, past General and Software Update. Tap Download and Install and travel the prompts.

Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor