Threatpost: Apple has fixed a slew of vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution on the iPhone, along with a number of other security vulnerabilities in the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 7.1. The new release comes just a little more than two weeks after Apple released iOS 7.06 to fix the SSL certificate validation error.
Unlike that release, which fixed just the one vulnerability, significant though it was, iOS 7.1 is a major security release containing patches for a large number of vulnerabilities in a bunch of different components. Webkit, the framework underlying Safari, got a major security upgrade in iOS 7.1, with Apple fixing 19 separate memory corruption issues. Nearly half of those vulnerabilities were discovered by the Google Chrome security team, and many of the 19 bugs were identified last year.
