Apple iOS6 Special Arabic character Denial of Service Vulnerability

Release date:
Updated on: 2013-09-01

Affected Systems:
Apple MacOS 10.8.x
Apple iOS 6
Unaffected system:
Apple iOS 7
Apple iOS 5
Description:
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Apple iOS is a handheld device operating system developed by Apple.

When Apple iOS6 processes emails, text messages, or microblogs containing special Arabic characters, the application may crash. This vulnerability is related to iOS6 and does not exist in iOS7. Mac chrome/safrari is also affected.

<* Source: anonymous

Link: http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2013-035672
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Suggestion:
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Temporary solution:

We recommend that you upgrade NSFOCUS to iOS7.

Vendor patch:

Apple
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Currently, the vendor does not provide patches or upgrade programs. We recommend that users who use the software follow the vendor's homepage to obtain the latest version:

Http://support.apple.com/