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A new iOS Bug Crashing iPhones by receiving a specific text message

  • May 27, 2015
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May 27, 2015  By Pierluigi Paganini
 
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A bug affecting the Messages app allows a string of characters sent to a person via iMessage or SMS to crash an iPhone and cause the Messages app to crash

 
A bug in the Apple iOS can cause the Messages app crash and iPhones automatically reboot when they receive a specific crafted text message. The bug could be exploited only when the message is sent from an iPhone to another iPhone, it seems it does not affect iPads, iPods or Mac computers.
 
When the user receives the message, he is not able to reopen the Messages app without reboot the mobile device. The only way to stop the problem is to get the sender of the malicious text message to send another message or wait for someone else to send a new one.
 
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    by Chris Brook May 29, 2015 , 12:43 pm
     



    According to instructions published on Apple’s Support site users are encouraged to do one of three things if their phone is hit with the “malicious message”:

    •     Ask Siri to “read unread messages.”
    •     Use Siri to reply to the message – then open Messages.
    •     In messages, swipe left to delete the thread, or tap and hold the message, tap more, and delete the message from the thread.
     
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