On: DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit

[nickles]

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.