I'm no iOS dev, but it seems like CoreText is trying[1] to truncate text for SpringBoard (to shorten it with ellipses to fit the notification box) and it crashes and burns with a segmentation fault[2]. FWIW, Reddit abides[3][4] and reacts with "Unicode Suppressor"[5]...heh...as if!
[1]: http://pastebin.com/cQyQE7Ws [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12601286/i-am-getting-a-lot-of-sigsegv-exception-in-my-ios-app-crash-report-and-that-too [3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text_message/crm4h4x [4]: http://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/37eaxs/um_can_someone_explain_this_phenomenon/crm3adg [5]: https://www.myrepospace.com/profile/effective/688319/Unicode_Suppresor ↪ Shervin On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail dot com> wrote: > > > Any good technical write up about this? > > Haven't seen one yet. Just a lot of "OMG, look at this" so far. > > -- > Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸 > >
