An iOS bug has been found, that would crash iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models in some regions whenever they typed the word Taiwan across apps, or received the ‘Taiwan’ flag emoji.
An iOS bug has been found, that would crash iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models in some regions whenever they typed the word Taiwan or received the ‘Taiwan’ flag emoji. This vulnerability was spotted on iOS 11.3, but has received a fix through the iOS 11.4.1 update. Patrick Wardle, a former NSA security researcher, who found the bug, pointed out that the code was probably due to censorship features for iPhones in China region.
According to the researcher, the code written to remove the references to the country’s name and its flag emoji from iOS in certain regions. However, instead of seeing this as missing from the library, there was a problem with the code, which saw the Taiwan flag or Taiwan as invalid input causing the iPhone or iPad to crash. The devices would crash if the word ‘Taiwan’ was typed via iMessage, WhatsApp and similar apps, or if the Taiwan flag emoji was received through any of these apps.
An iOS bug has been found, that would crash iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models in some regions whenever they typed the word Taiwan or received the ‘Taiwan’ flag emoji. This vulnerability was spotted on iOS 11.3, but has received a fix through the iOS 11.4.1 update. Patrick Wardle, a former NSA security researcher, who found the bug, pointed out that the code was probably due to censorship features for iPhones in China region.
According to the researcher, the code written to remove the references to the country’s name and its flag emoji from iOS in certain regions. However, instead of seeing this as missing from the library, there was a problem with the code, which saw the Taiwan flag or Taiwan as invalid input causing the iPhone or iPad to crash. The devices would crash if the word ‘Taiwan’ was typed via iMessage, WhatsApp and similar apps, or if the Taiwan flag emoji was received through any of these apps.
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