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Apple has pushed out five security fixes including including two vulnerabilities in its iPhones, iPads and Mac operating systems that are already being exploited.

One of these, tracked as CVE-2022-32917, can be used to allow malicious applications to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges."Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited," according to aThe vendor said it fixed the flaw with improved bounds checks and has released patches for iPhone 6 and later, iPad Pro , iPad Air 2 and later, and iPad 5, iPad mini 4, and iPod touch models and all newer kit.

It also patched buggy macOS Monterey 12.6 and macOS Big Sur 11.7 versions that could be exploited with the same CVE, so we advise all Mac users to spend their Monday evening patching. Maybe while watching Apple TV, which also requires some updates to fix security flaws in tvOS 16 — but the vendor hasn't released details for that one yet. So it's your call whether

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