Identity Services in Apple iOS before 6.1 does not properly handle validation failures of AppleID certificates, which might allow physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging an incorrect assignment of an empty string value to an AppleID.
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5642 | vendor advisory |
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00002.html | vendor advisory |
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jan/msg00000.html | vendor advisory |