Apple Patches Everything. Releases iOS 17.1, MacOS 14.1 and updates for older versions fixing exploited vulnerability, (Wed, Oct 25th)

Apple released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari updates today. The iOS/macOS updates go back two “generations”. This is particularly important for iOS 15, which now receives a patch for CVE-2023-32434, a vulnerability already exploited against earlier versions of iOS. This is also the only issue addressed for these earlier iOS versions.

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Sporadic scans for “server-info.action”, possibly looking for Confluence Server and Data Center Vulnerability CVE-2023-22515, (Wed, Oct 25th)

I noticed many scans for “/server-info.action” showing up in our “First Seen URLs” report. This URL didn&#;x26;#;39;t ring a bell at first but may be associated with CVE-2023-22515, a recent vulnerability in Confluence Server and Data Center.

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How an AppleTV may take down your (#IPv6) network, (Mon, Oct 23rd)

I recently ran into an odd issue with IPv6 connectivity in my home network. During a lengthy outage, I decided to redo some of my network configurations. As part of this change, I also reorganized my IPv6 setup, relying more on DHCPv6 and less on router advertisements to configure IPv6 addresses. Overall, this worked well. My Macs had no issues connecting to IPv6. However, the Linux host I use to alert me of network connectivity issues could not “ping” the test host via IPv6.

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