Given everything that’s beenhappening in the security research spacelately,iOS 12 appears to be far from non-exploitable. On the other hand, bugs, exploits, and vulnerabilities forApple’s latest and greatest operating just keep rolling in with each passing day, and this could potentially be great news for the jailbreak community.
The latest of such occurrences involves a privilege escalation bug foriOS 12.1and earlier byJann Hornof Google Project Zero. The security researcherpublished his notes online regarding the bug Monday afternoon, just five days afterApple publicly released iOS 12.1.1to patch the bug, along with several others.
Not much is known about Horn’s bug at this time, butciting Apple’s security content page for iOS 12.1.1, the bug meant that “an application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.”
Apple allegedly responded to the bug in the latest iOS update by addressing amemorycorruption issue in the operating system and improving state management.
It’s impossible to tell at this time if this particular bug will contribute to any futurejailbreaktool developments, but if you’re not already jailbroken and you’re waiting for a new jailbreak to materialize, then the best thing you can do isstay on the lowest possible firmware and avoid updating.
As welearned from one ofKeenLab’s recent demonstrations, iOS 12 is indeed jailbreakable. For now, it seems the community is just waiting on the properexploitsto surface and for a willing jailbreak developer integrate it into a user-friendly tool. For those wondering, there’s no telling when that could happen; all we can do is speculate.
As of this writing, the latest jailbreak available to the public isPwn20wnd’s unc0ver tool, which supports iOS versions 11.0 through 11.4 beta 3; there is no jailbreak available for iOS 11.4 and later.
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