Rendering bug crashes OS X and iOS apps with string of Arabic characters

Ars Technica
By Andrew CunninghamAug 29, 2013, 2:05 pm730 pts
This nonsensical string of Arabic characters renders fine in Firefox, but crashes any iOS or OS X browser that uses Apple's CoreText API. Andrew Cunningham There's a new bug in town, and it's here to crash your Mac and iPhone applications. Posters in a HackerNews thread from late yesterday have discovered that…

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