All the reporting of the BlueBorne vulnerability lists iOS levels but not Mac OS levels that are safe. What level of Mac OS addresses the BlueBorne vulnerabilities?
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), macOS Sierra (10.12.6)
Sorry. I misread that.
From what I've been able to find, no vulnerabilities have been identified in macOS at this time. That is to say, the analysis so far does not say that macOS is not vulnerable, but they have not yet shown that it definitely is.
Since the issue was fixed in iOS, which is based o the same UNIX kernel as macOS, versions of macOS that are up to date with security patches are most likely not affected.
What level of Mac OS addresses the BlueBorne vulnerabilities?
No version of macOS is vulnerable. Versions prior to Mountain Lion might have been vulnerable due to the lack of system-wide ASLR, which was first introduced in a limited fashion ten years and seven macOS versions ago... about the time of the original model iPhone. However, there is no value in discussing the theoretical vulnerabilities of long-since abandoned products.
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It is currently unclear.
Armis, who discovered this exploit have successfully used the exploit on devices that use ASLR.
iOS devices using 9.3.5 and below have been confirmed as being vulnerable and ASLR has been in use in iOS since version 4.3 - showing that Apple's implementations of ASLR are not impervious to this vulnerability.
Kernel version is likely to be relevant here and looking at how the XNU kernel versions match up, it is plausible that ALL versions of OS X are impacted, but that macOS Sierra is not.
Thanks, kind of my thought too, just hoping to get a solid answer that current patched versions are known not to be vulnerable. This article looks at PowerPC-based Mac vulnerability and concludes that Mac OS 10.6 and earlier are likely vulnerable (TenFourFox Development: BlueBorne and the Power Mac TL;DR: low practical risk, but assume the worst).
leedherman wrote:
All the reporting of the BlueBorne vulnerability lists iOS levels but not Mac OS levels that are safe. What level of Mac OS addresses the BlueBorne vulnerabilities?
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The vulnerability does not exist in iOS 10 (an presumably, 11) It does exist in iOS 9. If you're running iOS 10, you have nothing to worry about.
I understand about iOS, I'm asking about MacOS.
What level of Mac OS addresses the BlueBorne vulnerabilities?
