CVE-2015-1157
N/A
Published: May 28, 2015 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM UTC
3 products affected across 1 vendormacOSiPhone OSiTunes
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
Description
CoreText in Apple iOS 8.x through 8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot and messaging disruption) via crafted Unicode text that is not properly handled during display truncation in the Notifications feature, as demonstrated by Arabic characters in (1) an SMS message or (2) a WhatsApp message.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (15)
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/27/how-to-fix-ios-text-message-bug-crash-reboot/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00003.htmlx_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text_message/Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-17
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