CoreText Font Rendering Bug Leads To iOS, OS X Exploit

redkemper writes with this news from BGR.com (based on a report at Hacker News), excerpting: "Android might be targeted by hackers and malware far more often than Apple's iOS platform, but that doesn't mean devices like the iPhone and iPad are immune to threats. A post on a Russian website 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."

Character-based displays FTW!

[sootman]

I am totally safe.

Re:Who says?

[m1ndcrash]

Hipsters already have spent all money on Apple products, so their bank accounts are empty. You go after MS, Android who are smart and have savings.

Good thing Slashdot doesn't support Unicode!

[Anonymous Coward]

Otherwise someone would post it in the comments here and crash iPhone users' browser!

Re:Who says?

[Gilmoure]

Exactly! Apple's never been a big enough target or had enough users to make anyone want to hack them. As for those Apple (l)oosers? Just think how boring their lives have been for all these decades, not getting the real experience of using computers but stuck just playing quietly with their toys. Stoopid loosers!