14 DAY TRIAL // Apple released today, April 3, 2017, the first maintenance update to the latest iOS 10.3 mobile operating system series, for all supported iPhone and iPad devices.
The iOS 10.3.1 point release is here to address a Wi-Fi issue that made devices running iOS 10.3 vulnerable to attacks where a nearby hacker could run arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip. In the security notice, Apple describes the bug as a stack buffer overflow, which the company addressed by improving the input validation.
The vulnerability (CVE-2017-6975) was discovered by Gal Beniamini of Google Project Zero, and it appears to affect iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, as well as iPod touch 6th generation and later devices running the iOS 10.3 operating system.
Apple recommends all users installing the iOS 10.3.1 security update as soon as possible. To update your device, simply open the Settings app, go to the General section and tap on Software Update. If you're running iOS 10.3, you should be able to see the iOS 10.3.1 update, so press on the "Download and Install" button to install it.
In the meantime, Apple's iOS engineers are working on the second point release of iOS 10.3, namely iOS 10.3.2, which already received a first Beta milestone last week. A second Beta release is expected this week for developers and public beta testers alike, so stay tuned on Softpedia for the latest announcements.