Safari Flaw Crashes, Reboots iPhones, iPads With Just 15 Lines of Code
Safari Flaw Crashes, Reboots iPhones, iPads With Just 15 Lines of Code A security researcher named Sabri Haddouche has discovered a new flaw in WebKit, the layout engine which allows Apple’s Safari browser to render web pages, that causes an iOS device to crash with just 15 lines of code embedded in a link. The code takes advantage of a vulnerability in WebKit and overloads the system resources which forces an iPhone or an iPad to crash when the webpage is accessed via the Safari browser....