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tvOS 10.2 Public

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About this appearance

tvOS 10.2 reached the public channel on March 27, 2017 with a documented security set spanning media, fonts, images, networking, JavaScript, the kernel, Keychain, certificates, libraries, and WebKit.

Date
Mar 27, 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 to March 27, 2017 and identify Apple TV (4th generation) as the supported device.[1][2]

Documented scope

The structured entries organize the advisory by attack surface. They do not infer consumer features, performance changes, or ordinary bug fixes from the version number or from later tvOS histories.[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

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z · Released March 27, 2017

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  2. Apple security updates (2016 to 2017)

    Apple Support · Apple · 2023-11-06T00:00:00.000Z · tvOS 10.2 — 27 Mar 2017

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  3. About the security content of tvOS 10.2

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z · Audio through WebKit

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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

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z · Audio; Carbon; CoreGraphics; CoreText; FontParser; HTTPProtocol; ImageIO; Keyboards

  6. About the security content of tvOS 10.2

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z · JavaScriptCore; WebKit

  7. About the security content of tvOS 10.2

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z · Kernel; Security

  8. About the security content of tvOS 10.2

    Apple Support · Apple · 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z · Keychain; libarchive; libc++abi; libxslt; Security

Release changes

Changed in this release

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

security · fixed

Keychain, archive, runtime, XML, and certificate repairs

documentedconfirmed

Apple's record includes protected-secret interception risk, file-permission manipulation, memory corruption, and crafted-certificate code execution.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 10.2 · Keychain; libarchive; libc++abi; libxslt; Security

security · fixed

Media, font, image, HTTP/2, and input-parser repairs

documentedconfirmed

Apple's advisory records code-execution, disclosure, denial-of-service, and undefined-behavior risks in media and data parsers.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 10.2 · Audio; Carbon; CoreGraphics; CoreText; FontParser; HTTPProtocol; ImageIO; Keyboards

security · fixed

JavaScriptCore and WebKit repairs

documentedconfirmed

The advisory documents multiple malicious-web-content paths that could lead to code execution, data exposure, spoofing, or excessive resource use.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 10.2 · JavaScriptCore; WebKit

security · fixed

Kernel and platform privilege repairs

documentedconfirmed

Apple records risks ranging from restricted-memory access to root, system, elevated, or kernel-level code execution.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 10.2 · Kernel; Security