Beware of the text message that crashes iPhones

[Lord Nemesis]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/beware-of-the-text-message-that-crashes-iphones/

There's yet another iOS bug that causes Apple devices to crash when they receive text messages containing a string of special characters. With further finessing, the same exploit may be able to attack Macs, since OS X is also unable to process the same combination of characters, which are technically known as glyphs.

 

[swatkats]

Isn't this just happening on imessage?

 

[avi]

Isn't this just happening on imessage?

it's a notification bug

 

[Lord Nemesis]

^^ As per my understanding, its a Unicode text rendering bug. Might have something to do with Core Text internals or how the Core Text API is used by a specific use case.