CVE-2016-4680: Max Bazaliy of Lookout and in7egral

libarchive

Available for: All Apple Watch models

Impact: A malicious archive may be able to overwrite arbitrary files

Description: An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed through improved path sanitization.

CVE-2016-4679: Omer Medan of enSilo Ltd

libxpc

Available for: All Apple Watch models

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with root privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed through additional restrictions.

CVE-2016-4675: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Sandbox Profiles

Available for: All Apple Watch models

Impact: An application may be able to retrieve metadata of photo directories

Description: An access issue was addressed through additional sandbox restrictions on third party applications.

CVE-2016-4664: Razvan Deaconescu, Mihai Chiroiu (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Luke Deshotels, William Enck (North Carolina State University); Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)

Sandbox Profiles

Available for: All Apple Watch models

Impact: An application may be able to retrieve metadata of audio recording directories

Description: An access issue was addressed through additional sandbox restrictions on third party applications.

CVE-2016-4665: Razvan Deaconescu, Mihai Chiroiu (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Luke Deshotels, William Enck (North Carolina State University); Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)

System Boot

Available for: All Apple Watch models

Impact: A local user may be able to cause an unexpected system termination or arbitrary code execution in the kernel

Description: Multiple input validation issues existed in MIG generated code. These issues were addressed through improved validation.

CVE-2016-4669: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

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