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Re:New malformed Wi-Fi name bug can require iPhone factory r... by justshowpost on Monday July 05, 2021 @03:13AM (#27735362)
The description circulating the internets is very vague, involves some obscure personal(?) hotspot...

Not going to torture my gadgets, but looks like saving networks with ESSID "%p%s%s%s%s%n" causing wifid to crash on WFLog:message

Should also work with configuring network with such ESSID manually. The other sprintf specifiers in ESSID should work too.

> factory reset

Not that bad, Reset Network Settings fixes.

https://blog.chichou.me/2021/06/20/quick-analysis-wifid/

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Re:New malformed Wi-Fi name bug can require iPhone factory r... by salamandersauce on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:48AM (#27736149)
Read the article, That's the old one. He found a new one "%secretclub%power" that resetting network settings didn't fix.
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Re:New malformed Wi-Fi name bug can require iPhone factory r... by ykat7 on Monday July 05, 2021 @02:41PM (#27740722)
Current solution [1] seems to involve backing up your iPhone locally, removing the offending SSID from a plist (com.apple.wifi.plist?), and restoring your iPhone from that backup.

[1]: https://twitter.com/vm_call/status/1411753482437148683

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