From PC World: You might not be used to the idea of a watch endangering your digital life, but you should: Apple’s first update for Watch OS includes 14 security patches, and they’re not trivial.
Watch OS 1.0.1, released Tuesday, brings several performance improvements and support for additional languages, but it also fixes 13 vulnerabilities that could enable arbitrary code execution, information disclosure, denial of service, traffic hijacking, privilege escalation and other attacks, and also updates the list of root CA certificates trusted by default on the device.
Eight of the vulnerabilities are located in the OS kernel, including one each in the FontParser, Foundation, IOHIDFamily and IOAcceleratorFamily components and one in the Secure Transport library.
The FontParser vulnerability could be exploited to execute arbitrary code when processing a maliciously crafted font file and one of the kernel flaws could also be exploited by a malicious application to execute rogue code with system privileges.
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