iOS 18.4, Macos 15.4 and Co.: Apple stuffs many gaps

With yesterday’s updates on iOS 18.4, MacOS 15.4 and Co., Apple once again stuffed numerous security holes. This can be found in the documents now published by Apple. For example, IOS 18.4 and Ipados 18.4 contain Over 60 fixes.

Macos had twice as many gaps

As usual, Apple does not carry out all the problems in concrete terms, then only gives “credits” for the respective explorers. Apple known exploits does not seem to exist this time, at least the group does not comment on it. Nevertheless, the gaps are sometimes serious. For example, you were able to read out keychain data from an iOS backup, photos were hidden and still visible, password autofill worked even without complete authentication and manipulated audio files were able to carry out unwanted code.

The gaps fixed in MacOS 15.4 are even more extensive – it can be Count over 120 pieces. Here, too, there seem to be no reports that there are exploits. It is affected by A for Airdrop (metadata could be read out) via I like Installer (sandbox outbreak) to X like XSAN (kernel storage can be corrupted). There are kernel gaps and also various mistakes in webkit. Apple provides SONOMA (MacOS 13 and 14) for MacOS Ventura and MacOS SONOMA Safari 18.4 as a single download ready. A total of 18 gaps were remedied here alone, but probably there are much more, the Apple does not carry out in more detail.

Updates for old versions

Apple also brings in parallel to MacOS 15.4 MacOS 13.7.5 and MacOS 14.7.5 on the computer. They contain fixes from MacOS 15.4, but as usual not all. Security updates are also iOS and iPados 15.8.4 and Ipados 16.7.11 and iOS 16.7.11. Here too, only the most important problems are resolved.

Apple also brings information about safety -relevant error fixes For TVOS 18.4 and Visionos 2.4. Here, too, there are sometimes serious gaps, so that you should update as quickly as possible. There is also a security update for Xcode, the version number is now 16.3. Watchos has not yet updated Apple, the latest version remains 11.3.1 from February.