{"id":245059,"date":"2018-01-17T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245059"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:37:53","slug":"this-link-will-crash-your-iphone-or-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/245059-this-link-will-crash-your-iphone-or-mac.html","title":{"rendered":"This link will crash your iPhone or Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Abraham Masri has released details about a vulnerability in Messages for iOS.<\/p>\n<p>The issue causes the app to crash when a specific link is posted in a chat thread, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/01\/16\/link-crashes-macos-ios-fix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9to5Mac<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed chaiOS, additional testing showed the bug also affects Safari and Chrome on macOS, with the link either causing the browsers to crash or display the spinning beach ball.<\/p>\n<p>Masri&#8217;s proof of concept attack appears to exploit a bug in OpenGraph page titles by creating a long tag.<\/p>\n<p>Until Apple patches the issue, users will have to delete any conversation in which they receive the link.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/cheesecakeufo\/status\/953401511429726210<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chaiOS-tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245067\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chaiOS-tag.jpg\" alt=\"chaiOS tag\" width=\"598\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/128168-crash-skype-with-this-simple-message.html\">Crash Skype with this simple message<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability in Messages for iOS has been exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":224292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48327,691,36626],"class_list":["post-245059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-abraham-masri","tag-ios","tag-macos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245073,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245059\/revisions\/245073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}