iPhone denial of service vulnerability discovered by McAfee (finally)
One of the McAfee Avert Labs bloggers Jimmy Shah has “found” the Denial of Service vulnerability in iPhones Safari browser that we first reported on over two weeks ago here on iPhone World.
“The researchers who found the vulnerability were looking for a method to unlock the file system on iPhones with the latest firmware (1.1.3). Unlocking the file system allows the installing of custom ringtones and third party applications. With the last firmware version you could automatically unlock your iPhone by visiting a particular website with the Mobile Safari browser,” he wrote.
The DoS vulnerability can be exploited by visiting the proof of concept page and clicking a button that will launch a warning and the exploit code will run. The iPhone is then unresponsive before rebooting a less than a minute later, he said.
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