iPhone Exposed New Vulnerabilities Again, A Text Message Can Make Phone Crashes

Just send a piece of content as a string of special characters SMS Messages application can make the recipient on the phone constantly crash, or even cause the phone to reboot.

iPhone in exposed a new vulnerability. Just send off a piece of content as a string of special characters in a text message can make the recipient's phone crashes.

News about the vulnerability by Apple news site 9to5Mac first reported, the communication between the iPhone will only be affected by this vulnerability. It said that after the user received such SMS, Messages application on your phone will continue to collapse. In some cases, this vulnerability will cause iPhone to reboot.

It is said that the contents of this special character is: "effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗。"

I personally tried it, but the Messages application crashes or phone restart the phenomenon did not occur. This indicates that not all of the iPhone are the existence of this vulnerability. But iPhone users on major social networking sites in the comments of view, there are indeed many people encountered this problem.

One user in the Reddit Network commented that this issue is because the device caused by failure to correctly interpret unicode code, resulting in this short message memory occupied more than usual, resulting in a crash or iOS phone restart.

As 9to5Mac noted above, this case is not the first place. In 2013, when, 9to5Mac reported on some of the Arabic alphabet may cause some problems in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 in.

Unfortunately, if you are affected by this vulnerability, take a look at Forbes suggested solutions. Its recommendations are: either ask them to re-send a short message, either through Siri or Mac to send yourself a text message.