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Two iOS5 Security Flaws Exploited By Apple Jailbreak Tool

posted onJanuary 5, 2012
by l33tdawg

A researcher has released a new jailbreak tool that would allow iPhone users to run code from sources other than Apple’s iTunes App Store.

The new jailbreak, dubbed Corona, takes advantage of two different bugs in iOS 5 to untether iPhones and other devices running iOS 5.01, a researcher, Pod2g, wrote on his iOS Research blog. One flaw exists in the iOS binary and the other was a heap overflow in the kernel, according to the post.

Apple has in the past moved quickly to patch security flaws as soon as a jailbreak is publicised. With the code for Corona public, the company is expected to close these holes in the next security update. “Apple has fixed all previous known ways of executing unsigned binaries in iOS 5.0,” Pod2g wrote, noting that Corona accomplishes its task “another way”.

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