Breaking news: Apple un-breaks break on jailbreak break

Apple has issued an update to address a potentially serious security flaw it re-opened in the latest version of iOS. Monday's iOS 12.4.1 update contains a single fix: a patch to address CVE-2019-8605. The use-after-free vulnerability would let an application gain the ability to execute arbitrary code with system privileges. …

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

Apple thanking the maker of an iPhone jailbreak tool? Well, now I've seen everything...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Jailbreaks aside, the re-exposure of the bug was embarrassing for Apple and potentially dangerous for end-users."

It is indeed very embarrassing. It shows IOS source code is managed in a non-professional way.

Never should have work on 12.4 be based with, apparently, part of 12.2 code like was seemingly the case.

I remember this issue (bugs in N-2, fixed in N-1, and still re-appearing in N) causing my company to dump the vendor entirely.

[NoneSuch]

Oh you are awful, but I like you...

An Apple patch to remove user choice and enforce a closed garden infrastructure? Never heard of that one before.

[Alien8n]

Re: Oh you are awful, but I like you...

Some of us actually like the fact that User N cannot go to website X to install compromised App Y enabling hacker Z to access world plus dog's data.

Personally I want my user's phones locked down tighter than a Baptist minister's bum hole.