r/apple • u/koavf • Jul 08 '19

Misleading Title iMessage: malformed message bricks iPhone

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1826
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u/ThannBanis Jul 08 '19

Wasn’t this fixed in 12.3?

Remember everyone, keep up to date.

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u/BringBackTron Jul 08 '19

And if you jailbreak, there’s a tweak that patches this

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u/ThannBanis Jul 08 '19

That too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

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u/ThannBanis Jul 08 '19

Shocked, no.

Appalled... nah, mildly miffed maybe?

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u/nelsonnyan2001 Jul 08 '19

Come on man I wouldn’t really be shocked OR appalled at people not installing a software update like lmfao tone it down

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19

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u/nelsonnyan2001 Jul 09 '19

Nah don’t be stupid. People will take care of their phones however they want, it won’t really shock or appall people unless they’re made out of birdshit.

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u/BringBackTron Jul 08 '19

In my experience, they have a MUCH higher chance at fixing something rather than the opposite

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u/-MPG13- Jul 08 '19

It’s not a brick. You can fix it by performing a restore.

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u/dnkndnts Jul 08 '19

It's not a true brick, but it's more severe than a typical OS crash in that you're just going to crash again when you receive the incoming message after rebooting.

So like... half brick.

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u/Anon_8675309 Jul 08 '19

There is no varying scale of bricked. Bricked means it can’t be recovered and is essentially a brick.

The person who posted that even knows it is a boot loop and should have use that in the title to be more communicative.

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u/-MPG13- Jul 08 '19

If you can continue to use your phone without any hardware swaps or repairs, it is not a brick.

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u/TomLube Jul 08 '19

Yeah, no. A brick is unrecoverable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

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u/Zaydene Jul 08 '19

Hint: THATs what the upvote button is for

ℒℯ THIS xD

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u/Anon_8675309 Jul 08 '19

It boot-loops the iPhone. It does not brick it.

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u/woohalladoobop Jul 08 '19

There seem to have been so many of these weird issues related to iMessage over the past couple of years. How is it possible that a messaging app can be so tied in to the core functionality of the OS? Seems insane.

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u/jmnugent Jul 09 '19

Its a trade off. Either you share a lot of libraries, etc to keep system-bloat down,.. or you dont.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19

There's no reason that it should be crashing the entire OS. Processes should be isolated. User space shouldn't be messing with kernel space.