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AirDrop and Quick Share fixes from Apple and Google

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Apple and Google have started shipping fixes for the disclosed AirDrop and Quick Share flaws, reducing exposure for nearby attacks against widely used sharing features. Apple has patched one AirDrop bug and assigned it a CVE, while the advisory remains unpublished. Google has landed a code fix for the Quick Share for Windows flaw, though its CVE is still pending. Samsung's two Quick Share bugs remain under investigation.

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  1. 30.06.2026 12:27 2 articles · 4h ago

    Apple patches one AirDrop bug and Google lands a Quick Share for Windows fix

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    Apple shipped iOS and macOS 26.5.2 on June 29 and patched one of the three AirDrop bugs, assigning it a CVE while the advisory remained unpublished; Google also landed a code fix for the Quick Share for Windows memory bug and paid a bounty, while Samsung's two Quick Share bugs stayed under investigation.

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  2. 30.06.2026 12:27 1 articles · 4h ago

    Researchers disclose six AirDrop and Quick Share flaws

    Initial Disclosure

    Arash Ale Ebrahim and Nils Ole Tippenhauer of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security disclosed six security flaws in AirDrop and Quick Share, including crashes in sharingd, a Foundation XML property list parser stack overflow, Samsung session-check bypasses, and a potentially exploitable crash in Google's Quick Share for Windows app; the findings affect nearby attackers within wireless range or the same local network.

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