Text message crashes iphone

8 pointsDevagamster2 comments

This particular text locks iphone users out of their messaging app if sent via text message. I think its some sort of malformed unicode, but in any case this is not ok apple.

لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗

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Seems to be an overflow buffer attack that predominantly effects 5s users.

via u/MrBnF http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/37edde/el...

More discussion about the possible cause in another Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text...

I don't think it's a buffer overflow attack. Seems to be something wrong with rendering Arabic text when a message is shortened.

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