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1. jakobe+Eh[view] [source] 2018-01-18 16:56:59
>>Harvey+(OP)
So a crashing bug in the text rendering framework is now worth an article in major publications?

I stumbled over two or three of them in the last couple of years while debugging crash reports sent in by customers.

Seems that text rendering is hard. Maybe fuzzing CoreText would be a worthwhile target to discover vulnerabilities?

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2. Someon+ui[view] [source] 2018-01-18 17:02:21
>>jakobe+Eh
Or take text rendering out of the kernel.

The whole device shouldn't restart due to malformed text, that's just sloppy. If Microsoft can do it with Windows then Apple can do it on iOS.

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3. valley+sS[view] [source] 2018-01-18 20:14:51
>>Someon+ui
Text rendering does not live in the kernel on macOS or iOS.
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