| | | Apple has always made the most bug-ridden, insecure OSs. Android's "flaw" is they allow app installs from
any store. Not exactly and Apples to Apples comparison.
LOL. I can crash your iPad with only the name of my WIFI network, ROFL. Now that is weak.
A post on Russian website Habrahabr.ru 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.According to the report, simply exposing various iOS or OS X apps to one of several possible strings of text is enough to trigger a crash. What’s more, sending one such string as an SMS or an iMessage to an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac computer can crash Apple’s Messages app repeatedly, rendering it unusable.
Safari is also impacting by the bug, and [simply ROFL] naming a Wi-Fi network with one of the strings of text can cause an error while an Apple device is scanning for networks.
The report claims that Apple has been aware of this vulnerability for six months and has yet to patch the exploit in any currently available operating system build. |
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