CoreText Bug

Bug in CoreText allows a string of characters to crash apps

Aug 29, 2013 by iHash Leave a Comment

A serious bug has been uncovered in Apple's CoreText layout engine, which is responsible for laying out text in applications which make use of the Cocoa framework on OS X and iOS systems. The bug causes any app relying on CoreText to crash when a specific string of Arabic characters is displayed, meaning just the simple act of viewing a tweet or receiving an instant message is … [Read more...] about Bug in CoreText allows a string of characters to crash apps

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Bug in CoreText allows a string of characters to crash apps