The latest Apple information update includes a hole for an actively exploited information vulnerability that could let arbitrary codification execution connected iPhone 8 and above.
The bug, fixed with the iOS 16.1.2 update, is a type confusion contented in the WebKit browser engine. Type disorder occurs erstwhile a portion of codification doesn't verify the type of entity that is passed to it; successful this case, it can be be triggered erstwhile processing specially crafted content, Apple noted successful its advisory.
As for the progressive exploitation, the mobile elephantine noted that it is "aware of a study that this contented whitethorn person been actively exploited against versions of iOS released earlier iOS 15.1."
Apple has been plagued by zero-day exploits implicit the past respective months.