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Secunia Security Advisory 50586

Secunia Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple iOS, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose system information and gain escalated privileges, by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, conducts spoofing attacks, and compromise a user's device, and by malicious people with physical access to disclose potentially sensitive information and bypass certain security restrictions.
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Java 7 Applet Remote Code Execution

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in Java 7, which allows an attacker to run arbitrary Java code outside the sandbox. The vulnerability seems to be related to the use of the newly introduced ClassFinder#resolveClass in Java 7, which allows the sun.awt.SunToolkit class to be loaded and modified. Please note this flaw is also being exploited in the wild, and there is no patch from Oracle at this point
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iOS SSL Kill Switch

This is a MobileSubstrate extension to disable certificate validation within NSURLConnection in order to facilitate black-box testing of iOS Apps. Once installed on a jailbroken device, iOS SSL Kill Switch patches NSURLConnection to override and disable the system's default certificate validation as well as any kind of custom certificate validation (such as certificate pinning).