Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone | TechCrunch - eviltoast
  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
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    3 months ago

    Sounds like SQL injection, actually more like a JSON injection… As if it’s trying to concatenate the input directly inside the value of a JSON dictionary, without proper escaping and/or encoding (base64 or hex, for example).

    Possibly the input is being stored for user history (and, therefore, auto completion) purposes? Be it or not, something JSON-related is taking place here, from a kernel level or sufficiently deep so to cause a kernel crash (and rebooting).

    (Sorry for jargons, I’m a developer seeing this issue through a developer lens)