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tvOS 10.2.1 Public

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About this appearance

tvOS 10.2.1 reached the public channel on May 15, 2017 with documented repairs in video, audio, data, text, system surfaces, databases, text input, JavaScriptCore, WebKit, and Web Inspector.

Date
May 15, 2017
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

Public release

Apple's security index and dedicated advisory date tvOS 10.2.1 to May 15, 2017 for Apple TV (4th generation).[1][2]

Documented scope

The structured changes group Apple's security entries by subsystem. No ordinary release-note wording survives in the current Apple TV update history for this version.[3][4]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

  1. About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-05-15T00:00:00.000Z · Released May 15, 2017

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  2. Apple security updates (2016 to 2017)

    Apple Support · Apple · 2023-11-06T00:00:00.000Z · tvOS 10.2.1 — 15 May 2017

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  3. About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-05-15T00:00:00.000Z · AVEVideoEncoder through WebKit Web Inspector

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  4. About Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD software updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-29 · Oldest retained section: tvOS 11

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  5. About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-05-15T00:00:00.000Z · AVEVideoEncoder; CoreAudio; CoreFoundation; CoreText; Foundation

  6. About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-05-15T00:00:00.000Z · IOSurface; Kernel

  7. About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-05-15T00:00:00.000Z · JavaScriptCore; WebKit; WebKit Web Inspector

  8. About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-05-15T00:00:00.000Z · SQLite; TextInput

Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

security · fixed

IOSurface and kernel repairs

documentedconfirmed

The matching advisory records kernel-privilege code-execution and restricted-memory disclosure outcomes.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1 · IOSurface; Kernel

security · fixed

JavaScriptCore, WebKit, and Web Inspector repairs

documentedconfirmed

Apple's advisory groups multiple malicious-web-content vulnerabilities across JavaScriptCore, WebKit, and its inspection tooling.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1 · JavaScriptCore; WebKit; WebKit Web Inspector

security · fixed

Video, audio, Foundation, and text-processing repairs

documentedconfirmed

Apple's advisory identifies kernel-privilege, restricted-memory, denial-of-service, and crafted-data code-execution risks.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 10.2.1 · AVEVideoEncoder; CoreAudio; CoreFoundation; CoreText; Foundation