14 DAY TRIAL // Alongside the widely publicized iOS 8.1.1 and OS X 10.10.1 released yesterday evening, the tech giant headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, has quietly rolled out a minor maintenance update for Apple TV customers.
Delivering “general performance and stability improvements,” Apple TV Software Update 7.0.2 doesn’t bring anything new to the table and basically just carries out maintenance on your box.
This maintenance program also includes a trio of security fixes that patch recently found vulnerabilities in the underlying software. For example, multiple memory corruption issues in WebKit would allow an attacker with a privileged network position to “cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.” Apple corrected this flaw through “improved memory handling,” according to an advisory on the company’s support site.
Another vulnerability deals with a state management issue that resided “in the handling of Mach-O executable files with overlapping segments.” The Cupertino company patched this flaw “through improved validation of segment sizes.”
Finally, a validation issue found in the handling of certain metadata fields of IOSharedDataQueue objects would allow a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with system privileges. This is no longer the case in Apple TV Software 7.0.2, which addresses the vulnerability by relocating the metadata.
To update your set top box, select Settings > General > Update Software. When the download message appears, click Download and Install to start the process.
