WARNING : Darwin Nuke can make ERROR in your iPhone

Iphone Error

CLICKTECHNO - The bad news came from Kaspersky Lab for smartphone users belonging to Apple's iPhone manufacturer. The bad news for those of you who have an iPhone with iOS 8 and also iOS X 10.10. Smartphone devices you may be exposed to Denial of Service (DoS) that can be activated via the remote. It was discovered by the Kaspersky when performing security tests.

Devices that threatened DoS attack is the Apple products that use a 64-bit processor and also iOS 8 like iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, the iPad Air, Water iPad 2, iPad Mini 2, and iPad mini 3.

Parties Kaspersky Lab says that a DoS possibilities can occur because there is a gap in the Darwin kernel contained in ios 8 and x. Darwin Nuke exploited by means of processing IP packets with a certain size and with a choice of unauthorized IP.

After processing the unauthorized network packets, the system will crash. The system will crash if IP packets like this:

- The size of the IP header is only 60 bytes.

- IP payload size that is less than or equal to 65 bytes.

- IP options that are not true (size option, class, etc. unauthorized)

The good news is this problem can be solved easily, ie you only need to update your OS to the latest version. If you are using iOS 8 then update to version 8.3 was recently released, if you are a user of OS X 10:10 then update to version 10.10.3 says Anton Ivanov (Senior Malware Analyst, Kaspersky Lab).

In addition, there are precautions you can take to protect your device from Nuke Darwin gap, namely by using the Network Attack Blocker of Kaspersky Lab Internet Security for Mac 15.0. [INZ]