iPhoneWorld is reporting that a security vulnerability previously found to affect the iPhone Safari browser in a certain version of the phone's firmware, also affects a newer version installed in 16GB iPhones and 32GB iPod Touch devices.
The denial-of-service vulnerability would cause the phone to crash if a user accessed a web site hosting malicious code.
The problem was found last month to affect version 1.1.2 of the iPhone firmware, but iPhoneWorld is reporting that new phones that are shipping with firmware v1.1.3 are vulnerable to this attack as well. They also found the vulnerability present in the earlier v1.0.2 firmware.
Apple told the publication it didn't know when the problem would be fixed. Until then, users who are worried about the issue can disable JavaScript.
