Apple Releases iOS 7.0.6, Can The Public Jailbreak 7.0.6 UnTethered?

 February 21, 2014 at 11:29 am

iOS 7.0.6 Released, Can the Public Jailbreak 7.0.6 UnTethered?Today, in an unusual and certainly unexpected release, Apple issued iOS 7.0.6 for all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models on previous iterations of iOS 7. Currently, we’re all wondering, the staff of iJailbreak Evasi0n and the evad3rs included, whether it’s possible to jailbreak 7.0.6 using the evasi0n7 UnTethered utility. All iDevice owners, even those who are jailbroken, should start receiving notifications to update either via the Settings app or through iTunes on a computer, which could certainly patch the latest evasi0n jailbreak.

Although it’s too early to rule out 7.0.6 as a threat to jailbreakers, MuscleNerd has already tweeted words of caution surrounding the new iOS 7 update.

However, the possibility of 7.0.6 being jailbreakable exists, as Apple left the vulnerabilities exploited by evasi0n unpatched in their somewhat recent release of 7.0.5 for select non-US iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C models three weeks ago.

As far as the actual update itself is concerned, 7.0.6 is a relatively minor update that appears to mostly deliver a correction for SSL connection verification.

Also, as previously mentioned, there’s a chance that like 7.0.5, the new iOS 7.0.6 update was a rushed release to rectify an issue that Apple felt couldn’t be left unattended until the company’s forthcoming release of 7.1, which has already been confirmed to patch the evasi0n jailbreak.

We’ll have additional information on how the jailbreak is, or isn’t, affected by iOS 7.0.6 in the days to come, but for now, it would certainly be best to avoid the firmware if you wish to maintain your iDevice’s jailbroken state.

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