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Err... that article explicitly says that the hole was in fact patched on Catalina, and it even has a link to the notice. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2128
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
Err... that article explicitly says that the hole was in fact patched on Catalina, and it even has a link to the notice.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212825 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212825
- howinteresting 5y agoIt was patched on Catalina months after being patched on Big Sur, and after being exploited by the CCP against dissidents in Hong Kong (therefore it was a zero-day).
- Turing_Machine 5y agoErrr.... CVE-2021-30869 was patched in Big Sur on September 23, 2021 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212147 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212147 and was patched in Catalina on...September 23, 2021 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212825 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212825 The article says that the Chinese team said it was on Big Sur, and that the Google team then discovered it was also on Catalina. It doesn't say that Apple didn't patch it on Catalina, or that they patched it "months later". I would recommend against using vice.com as any kind of authoritative source. On anything.
- howinteresting 5y agoLooks like you're correct in this instance, thanks! But my general point is still true: Apple routinely skips patches on older versions. I'm aware of a fair bit of proprietary evidence for this.