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Re:'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of ... by saagarjha on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:12PM (#19039548)
> I don't know offhand if this was a buffer overflow or something else

It was an issue when the device's local was set incorrectly and would return NULL, leading to a crash in CFStringCompare.

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Re:'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of ... by alasdair_ on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:52AM (#19042700)
Many thanks!
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