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Text message crashes iphone
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 ॣ ॣ
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- infmonkeys 11y agoSeems to be an overflow buffer attack that predominantly effects 5s users. via u/MrBnF http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/37edde/eli5_how_that_text_you_can_send_to_friends_turns/ http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/37edde/el...
- Rick_Sullivan 11y agoMore discussion about the possible cause in another Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text_message/ 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.