Posted by Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure on Oct 28
APPLE-SA-10-28-2024-2 iOS 17.7.1 and iPadOS 17.7.1
iOS 17.7.1 and iPadOS 17.7.1 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at https://support.apple.com/121567.
Apple maintains a Security Releases page at https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.
Accessibility
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch
2nd generation…
Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that a heap-based buffer overflow in the
_XkbSetCompatMap function in the X Keyboard Extension of the X.org X
server may result in privilege escalation if the X server is running
privileged.