<story><title>Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore Driver</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1302</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>Nope, so this is going to be interesting to watch. Personally I was hoping that they would offer an optional download of 32bit support libraries to let iOS11 users run important existing legacy apps and access their documents, but they seem to push hard on making developers get in line and update their apps. Which is unhelpful for the cases where the developers no longer have any interest in their apps or even exist (bankrupt, disbanded, in some cases deceased)</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Have they previously had an app transition like 32-bit &amp;#x2F; 64-bit, where some users cannot upgrade?</text></item><item><author>0x0</author><text>Highly unlikely, I don&amp;#x27;t think Apple has ever released multiple branches of updates for any device. The closest is perhaps iOS 6.1.6, a fix for the fatal &amp;quot;gotofail&amp;quot; SSL vulnerability, which was pushed out to devices stuck on iOS 6.x, but if your device was eligible for iOS7 then iOS7(.0.6) was what you would get.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s also the only time I can remember security updates being pushed after a device model being end-of-life&amp;#x27;d.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Is this going to be fixed in iOS 10?  Some users have apps which will not work with iOS 11, so cannot immediately upgrade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Which is unhelpful for the cases where the developers no longer have any interest in their apps or even exist (bankrupt, disbanded, in some cases deceased)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they are &amp;quot;bankrupt, disbanded, in some cases deceased&amp;quot; then maybe insisting on using those apps are not the best course for the user either...</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore Driver</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1302</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>Nope, so this is going to be interesting to watch. Personally I was hoping that they would offer an optional download of 32bit support libraries to let iOS11 users run important existing legacy apps and access their documents, but they seem to push hard on making developers get in line and update their apps. Which is unhelpful for the cases where the developers no longer have any interest in their apps or even exist (bankrupt, disbanded, in some cases deceased)</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Have they previously had an app transition like 32-bit &amp;#x2F; 64-bit, where some users cannot upgrade?</text></item><item><author>0x0</author><text>Highly unlikely, I don&amp;#x27;t think Apple has ever released multiple branches of updates for any device. The closest is perhaps iOS 6.1.6, a fix for the fatal &amp;quot;gotofail&amp;quot; SSL vulnerability, which was pushed out to devices stuck on iOS 6.x, but if your device was eligible for iOS7 then iOS7(.0.6) was what you would get.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s also the only time I can remember security updates being pushed after a device model being end-of-life&amp;#x27;d.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Is this going to be fixed in iOS 10?  Some users have apps which will not work with iOS 11, so cannot immediately upgrade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>What legacy apps worth keeping “documents” for - I’m assuming non game apps — would be worth supporting? The chances are even if they did provide support for 32 bit abandoned apps, they would break sooner or later with a future OS upgrade.&lt;p&gt;Besides are you planning on keeping the same IOS device forever? The newest processors are 64 bit only. I doubt that Apple will ever release a new device that will support 32 bit devices - except for maybe a new iPod Touch or iPhone SE.</text></comment>