iOS bug allows a single message to repeatability crash iPhones, Disable iMessage
In iOS there is a vulnerability through which an attacker can send to the device the victim a specially formed contact card in VCF format and kill the messenger. The “hole” security discovered by French security researcher under the name Vincedes3.
The problem is that the user is iMessage, when it receives a message with a special attachment, most likely will try to open it. As a result, the app will completely crash. The usual workarounds don’t help: trying to close iMessage from the multitasking drawer, and even rebooting the iPhone won’t bring him back to life.
The manual of the bug the developer has published on his blog. According to him, the vulnerability is present on all iOS versions starting from 9.0 to 10.2.1 beta 2.
To send attachments you need to download on your iPhone the file at this link: vincedes3.com/vincedes3.vcf . This contact card to your address book, you must save it in a standard iCloud Drive app. Then press the “Share” button in iCloud Drive, you should select user and confirm the iMessage sending a card to the person you want to cause trouble. The first time the app may not open, so it is worth repeating several times.
What causes the failure of iMessage, the developer is not told. However, this bug allows you to deliver serious inconvenience to the owners of the iPhone and iPad.
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-DeanoPosted:
ZBBMickersxJet_Coder welp time to switch to android.
There has been numerous.
What the hell man. Please explain what the hell that actually means. How about posting something relevant instead of just coming here to get your post count up. I hate scrolling through these threads and seeing people like you posting pointless spam.
Your post is pointless spam though...
On topic: there's been a lot of security issues like this. Thankfully I have an android so it doesn't affect me. Hopefully Apple patch this quickly.
iRekPosted:
ZBBbut is that not what you did? and what I'm doing right now?MickersxJet_Coder welp time to switch to android.
There has been numerous.
What the hell man. Please explain what the hell that actually means. How about posting something relevant instead of just coming here to get your post count up. I hate scrolling through these threads and seeing people like you posting pointless spam.
Anywayyys, it'll probably be fixed fairly soon, but beware of your troll "friends" that may have found this!
LoodPosted:
Mickerswhat the actual hell does this even mean?xJet_Coder welp time to switch to android.
There has been numerous.
GaryPosted:
xJet_Coder welp time to switch to android.
That's like going on a bad date and saying "welp time to go gay". This is easily fixed if you actually watched the video.
RickPosted:
I don't understand why anyone would want to send this to anyone else, just seems like a total waste of time to ruin someones day with this
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