CoreText in Apple iOS 8.x through 8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot and messaging disruption) via crafted…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.6% · top 7.0% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-17 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-17 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (15)

• https://support.apple.com/HT205221 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 75491 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204941 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text_message/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://ghostbin.com/paste/zws9m (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37enow/about_the_latest_iphone_security_vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1032408 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2015-06-30-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/27/how-to-fix-ios-text-message-bug-crash-reboot/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/37edde/eli5_how_that_text_you_can_send_to_friends_turns/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2015-09-16-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204942 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2015-06-30-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• http://zanzebek.com/a-simple-text-message-can-ruin-any-iphone/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apple-ios-bug-sees-message-app-crash-iphone-reboot-simply-by-receiving-message-1503083 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 04:33 UTC.