CoreText Font Rendering Bug Leads To iOS, OS X Exploit

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:15AM 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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Re:Who says? by 0123456 · 2013-08-29 05:47 · Score: 4, Insightful

Right, because having users manage their own risk profile has worked out so well in the PC/Windows world...
Indeed. Letting someone else control your computer is much safer.
Android's big problem is that you have no way of saying 'no, I'm not giving this app that permission', and can only choose to install or not install the Fluffy Kitty Screen Saver that wants access to your filesystem, the Internet, and the ability to send SMS messages.