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Apple has released a minor software update for iPhone to patch a security flaw revealed just yesterday. Security researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner on Thursday demonstrated this memory curruption bug at a blackhat security conference held at Las Vegas.

They demonstrated this flaw by sending an attack to a cent reporter who was present there.

This attack actually consists of sending a series of invisible messages which will eventually crash the iphone. But after this the attacker will be able to gain the control of this attacked iphone. So by this attack an attacker can use any function of iphone.

On Friday morning, Apple released iPhone OS 3.0.1. Available through iTunes, the update “Fixes SMS vulnerability,” according to its description.

“We appreciate the information provided to us about SMS vulnerabilities which affect several mobile phone platforms,” an Apple spokeswoman said in a phone interview with Wired.com. “This morning, less than 24 hours after a demonstration of this exploit, we’ve issued a free software update that eliminates the vulnerability from the iPhone. Contrary to what’s been reported, no one has been able to take control of the iPhone to gain access to personal information using this exploit.”