{"id":9943,"date":"2019-06-02T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T06:39:35","slug":"windows-security-updates-for-icloud-and-itunes-05-28-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/06\/02\/windows-security-updates-for-icloud-and-itunes-05-28-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows: Security updates for iCloud and iTunes (05\/28\/2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Apple.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/?p=218667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Apple has recently released updated versions of its iCloud and iTunes applications for Windows. Those who use these clients to access Apple services should update as soon as possible. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>iCloud for Windows Version 7.12<\/h2>\n<p>The iCloud client for Windows allows you to access various Apple services such as iCloud Drive, email, contacts, calendars, tasks or the photos or bookmarks stored in an Apple account under this operating system. A description of the functionality can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT204283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Apple site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"iCloud-Client\" alt=\"iCloud-Client\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cspSRid.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>On May 28, 2019, Apple released version 7.12 of this client for Windows. This is an unscheduled security update that closes 25 vulnerabilities. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT210125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Apple page<\/a>, the following issues will be resolved:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SQLite:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CVE-2019-8577: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.\n<li>CVE-2019-8600: A maliciously crafted SQL query may lead to arbitrary code execution.\n<li>CVE-2019-8598: A malicious application may be able to read restricted memory.\n<li>CVE-2019-8602: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WebKit<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CVE-2019-8607: Processing maliciously crafted web content may result in the disclosure of process memory\n<li>CVE-2019-6237, VE-2019-8571, CVE-2019-8583, CVE-2019-8584, CVE-2019-8586, CVE-2019-8587, CVE-2019-8594, CVE-2019-8595, CVE-2019-8596, CVE-2019-8597, CVE-2019-8601, CVE-2019-8608, CVE-2019-8609, CVE-2019-8610, CVE-2019-861, CVE-2019-8615, CVE-2019-8619, CVE-2019-8622, CVE-2019-8623, CVE-2019-8628: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The download of the 155 MByte program is possible on <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT204283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Apple page<\/a>. The client is available from Windows 7. <\/p>\n<h2>iTunes-Version 12.9.5 for Windows<\/h2>\n<p>The iTunes client is a universal multimedia management software from Apple, which is included in macOS, but is also available as a separate program for Windows 7 or later. The program allows you to play, convert, burn, organize and buy music, audiobooks, podcasts and movies and can manage content from connected iOS devices (iPod, iPad and iPhone). See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Apple website<\/a> for an overview of features. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/de\/itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dieser Webseite<\/a> von Apple.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-05-31\/apple-s-future-ios-13-macos-10-15-watchos-6-tvos-13-mac-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports, that Apple may want to discontinue iTunes. Under macOS there should be separate apps for the iTunes functions. But it's all still a rumor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The update to iTunes version 12.9.5 closes the same vulnerabilities as iCloud (see <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT210124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Apple document<\/a>). The download is possible from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Apple site<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Apple has recently released updated versions of its iCloud and iTunes applications for Windows. Those who use these clients to access Apple services should update as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,1547,22],"tags":[930,109,69,195,194],"class_list":["post-9943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","category-update","tag-icloud","tag-itunes","tag-security","tag-update","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}