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CoreText Font Rendering Bug Leads To iOS, OS X Exploit

Posted by timothy on from the click-carefully dept.

redkemper writes with this news from BGR.com (based on a report at Hacker News), excerpting: "Android might be targeted by hackers and malware far more often than Apple's iOS platform, but that doesn't mean devices like the iPhone and iPad are immune to threats. A post on a Russian website draws attention to a fairly serious vulnerability that allows nefarious users to remotely crash apps on iOS 6, or even render them unusable. The vulnerability is seemingly due to a bug in Apple's CoreText font rendering framework, and OS X Mountain Lion is affected as well."

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  1. Character-based displays FTW! by sootman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am totally safe.

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    Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
  2. Good thing Slashdot doesn't support Unicode! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Otherwise someone would post it in the comments here and crash iPhone users' browser!