German Authorities Warn of iPhone Exploit
Computerworld reported that German authorities warned Apple of an exploit in the PDF viewer found in the iPhone. Apple says they have a fix ready.
“Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, known by its German-language initials of BSI for “Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik,” warned citizens Wednesday that the two bugs could be used by criminals to hijack iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads.
BSI said that successful attacks could give hackers access to any data on the device, including passwords, e-mails, sent and received text messages, and contacts. The attacks could also let others control the iPhone’s camera(s), listen in to phone calls and pinpoint the user’s location.
According to security researchers, JailbreakMe — the software that hacks, or “jailbreaks,” iOS 4 — uses a flaw in mobile Safari’s parsing of fonts in PDF documents to compromise the browser, then exploits a second vulnerability that breaks out of the isolating “sandbox” and gains full, or “root,” control of the device.
Little is known about the second bug used to gain root access.”
You can read the full article here at Computerworld.
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