On: DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit

[peter_tonoli]

Seems to be a pretty devastating problem if you send the exploit text to someone in iMessage. Makes the phone immediately crash - when the phone has been restarted and the user clicks on "messages", it crashes again - I think that it'll need a system restore / hacking of the Messages datastore to fix.

Put the exploit text into the SSID for an iOS personal hotspot - crashes iOS devices when they scan for SSID's to connect to.

[nickles → peter_tonoli]

It can be fixed by sending the attack again, then deleting the entire chat history with the attacker. (According to a comment the report linked to.)

[pessimizer → nickles]

Actually, just by the attacker sending a long enough text message to push the attack off the screen - which you can do yourself by sending a long text message to yourself from another phone, then forwarding that message to the attacker.

[nwh → peter_tonoli]

Using Unicode crashes my router, I learnt that previously.

[voltagex_ → nwh]

Terrible router firmware strikes again. Which router are you using?

[zhovner → peter_tonoli]

Did you test SSID?

[peter_tonoli → zhovner]

As soon as the device found the exploited SSID name, the SSID selector would restart/crash, meaning that the user couldn't select a new SSID.