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IOS 14.2 brings Shazam to iPhone's platform. (Apple) Apple earlier this month released a software update on its iPhones and iPad that brings a music recognition tool called Shazam to its devices. Learn how to use the new Shazam-powered music recognition feature in iOS 14.2, right from the Control Center of your iPhone and iPad, to quickly identify what’s playing around you or in apps, even when you’re wearing AirPods.
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iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2
Released November 5, 2020
Audio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27910: JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Audio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27916: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
CallKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A user may answer two calls simultaneously without indication they have answered a second call
Description: An issue existed in the handling of incoming calls. The issue was addressed with additional state checks.
CVE-2020-27925: Nick Tangri
CoreAudio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-10017: Francis working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
CoreAudio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27908: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
CVE-2020-27909: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Entry updated March 16, 2021
CoreText
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-27922: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
Entry added March 16, 2021
Crash Reporter
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved path sanitization.
CVE-2020-10003: Tim Michaud (@TimGMichaud) of Leviathan
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit for this issue exists in the wild.
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27930: Google Project Zero
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-27927: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Foundation
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to read arbitrary files
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-10002: James Hutchins
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27924: Lei Sun
Entry added March 16, 2021
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27912: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
CVE-2020-27923: Lei Sun
Entry updated March 16, 2021
IOAcceleratorFamily
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-27905: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to disclose kernel memory. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit for this issue exists in the wild.
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed.
CVE-2020-27950: Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9974: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03)
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-10016: Alex Helie
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit for this issue exists in the wild.
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2020-27932: Google Project Zero
Keyboard
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to access stored passwords without authentication
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-27902: Connor Ford (@connorford2)
libxml2
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-27917: found by OSS-Fuzz
CVE-2020-27920: found by OSS-Fuzz
Entry updated March 16, 2021
libxml2
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27911: found by OSS-Fuzz
libxml2
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-27926: found by OSS-Fuzz
Logging
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-10010: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03)
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-10004: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-13524: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-10011: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
Symptom Framework
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-27899: 08Tc3wBB working with ZecOps
Entry added December 15, 2020
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch 7th generation, iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-27918: Liu Long of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Ios 14.2 Music Recognition
Entry updated March 16, 2021
XNU
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation), iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad mini 4 and later
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: Multiple issues were addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2020-27935: Lior Halphon (@LIJI32)
Entry added December 15, 2020
Additional recognition
NetworkExtension
Ios 14.2 Song Recognition
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Ios 14.2 Music Recognition Apps
Entry added December 15, 2020
Safari
We would like to acknowledge Gabriel Corona for their assistance.