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      Government Warns Apple Watch Users in India | Know the Reason

      Apple Watch models running watchOS versions older than 8.7 have flag by the government of India with multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, which have given a high severity rating, could allow attackers to run arbitrary code and bypass security restrictions on any targeted Apple Watch running watchOS 8.6 and older versions.

      As a solution, the government suggests the Apple Watch owners to apply necessary patches by updating to the latest available version, watchOS 8.7.

      Apple has also list the vulnerability on its support website.

      Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) said in a vulnerability note that the Apple Watch models running an older version of watchOS than 8.7 are affect by multiple vulnerabilities.

      The nodal agency for cybersecurity has given it a severity rating of high.

      According to CERT-in, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and bypass Apple’s security restrictions on the target smartwatch.

      This detect vulnerabilities exist due to a buffer overflow in AppleAVD component, an authorisation issue in AppleMobilityFileIntegrity component, out-of-bounds write in Audio, ICU, and WebKit component.

      CERT-in has also mention other reasons for these vulnerabilities to exist in Apple Watch models.

      Which include, “type confusion in Multi-touch component, Multiple out-of-bounds write and memory corruption in GPU Drivers component, out-of-bounds read in Kernel component, and memory initialisation in libxml2 component.”

      According to CERT-in vulnerability notification, a remote attacker could exploit the above-mention vulnerabilities by sending a specially-craft request to the target device.

      Apple has acknowledge the vulnerability on its support page, highlight under AppleAVD impact that it could allow a remote user to cause kernel code execution.

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      The vulnerability note also adds that the successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code and bypass the security restriction on an Apple Watch running watchOS version older than 8.7.

      The government has ask Apple Watch users to apply appropriate patches that are include in the watchOS 8.7 update, according to the Apple Security Updates website.

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