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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by DanielRibeiro on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @11:38PM (#6294104)
Pretty interesting discovery.

Direct link: (WARNING THIS CAN KILL WEBKIT) https://zhovner.com/tmp/killwebkit.html

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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by semenko on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @11:42PM (#6294112)
And a similar tweet: (WARNING / CRASH) https://twitter.com/daken_/status/303784082599456768
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by tgkokk on Thursday August 29, 2013 @03:20AM (#6294666)
Didn't crash for me on Chrome (Stable) in the first place, but when I tried to translate the page it did.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by tuananh on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:08AM (#6294198)
works fine on Chrome dev running on ML.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by Groxx on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:40AM (#6294440)
Firefox nightly is fine too.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by brokenparser on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:12AM (#6294793)
Gee, I wonder why.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by jawr on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:31AM (#6294854)
This bug isn't particular to Chrome...
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by ipodize on Thursday August 29, 2013 @05:25AM (#6294987)
But it is "particular" to WebKit (on iOS and OSX, due to CoreText), which Firefox has nothing to do with.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by tedmielczarek on Friday August 30, 2013 @07:22AM (#6301148)
We do use Core Text in Firefox on OS X, although not for all parts of text layout/rendering nowadays, AIUI. We're using Harfbuzz for some text shaping, so it's possible we're not using the particular Core Text APIs that hit this bug.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by jawr on Thursday August 29, 2013 @05:41AM (#6295022)
Read the first comment; since when was curl a WebKit tool?

> This isn't a bug inside WebKit. It's a bug inside Apples CoreText font rendering framework.

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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by signed0 on Thursday August 29, 2013 @03:15AM (#6294655)
Seems to crash the tab in Chrome 29 on OSX.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by jchimney on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:30AM (#6294271)
not crashing safari for me... Mavericks beta.
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Re:DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit by johnpowell on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:43AM (#6294311)
Safari crashes on 10.8.4 for me.
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