iPhone text message bug can crash Apple Watch, iPad and Mac too
by Samuel Gibbs from on (#9XV2)
Bug in Apple's Messages that allows anyone to crash someone's iPhone with a text can also affect an Apple Watch, iPad or Mac
The bug that causes iPhones to crash when they receive a boobytrapped text message also affects the Apple Watch, iPads and Macs.
The crash is caused by a bug within a core system common to all of Apple's devices that handles text. When presented with non-Latin characters in a specific sequence - including those from Arabic, Chinese and Marathi - the CoreText system chokes, causing it to fail and bring the entire operating system to a halt.
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