Apple has rolled out 173 patches across in various products across its hardware portfolio, including for dangerous bugs in macOS for laptops and desktops, iPhone, Apple TV and Apple Watch. The update also includes a patch for the side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel chips disclosed on Tuesday. The four different attack vectors are dubbed ZombieLoad, Fallout, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load) and Store-to-Leak Forwarding. Apple has also rolled out a cornucopia of patches for iPhone 5s, the iPad Air and later, and the sixth-generation iPod touch.
Source: https://threatpost.com/apple-patches-intel-side-channel-ios-macos/144743/