Apple Countered Pangu Team’s Jailbreak with iOS 9.1

In what appears to be a quick case of quid pro quo, within a few days of iOS 9 jailbreak threatening Apple devices, Apple acted fast and was able to close two of the many points used by the hacking team in China, Pangu, allowing the users to jailbreak all the devices running on iOS 9.0 to 9.0.2, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, reported San Jose Suntimes. Apple's website posted a security document on their website where they credited the Pangu team for discovering two vulnerabilities in the newly released iOS operating system which has been patched now.

According to Tech Crunch, one of the vulnerabilities would let a malicious application give extra privileges to the users. Another vulnerability to let a malicious application to process an arbitrary code extending kernel privileges. The community of jailbreakers already knew that the similar vulnerabilities had been patched by Apple in iOS 9.1. The jailbreak didn't seem to work with the beta version of 9.1 iOS software. This is the reason why Pangu team didn't consider the iOS 9 jailbreak and discarded it ahead of 9.1 release. This was the only way the users could have been informed about the jailbreak before new version came out.

Tech Crunch reported, that this doesn't mean your device can never be jailbroken since you have already upgraded to 9.1. There is always a possibility that Pangu team or any other hacker will be able to find a vulnerability that can be used in the future. As soon as 9.1 was released, Pangu too rolled out a new version of their jailbreak tool which is reportedly more stable and gave better results. However, this tool's functionality is only limited to users who have not yet upgraded from 9.0.2