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A code added to "appease" the Chinese government was the culprit behind a bug that crushed some users' iPhones when they wrote "Taiwan" or used the Taiwanese emoji flag, says a security researcher.
is now fixed, was spotted in iOS 11.3, security researcher Patrick Wardle, a former hacker for the US National Security Agency, wrote in a blog on Tuesday.
This bug was triggerable remotely and on an affected device "Although its impact was limited to a denial of service (null-pointer dereference), it did an interesting case study on code badysis iOS, "writes Wardle in the blog. .
"And if Apple had not tried to appease the Chinese government in the first place, there would be no bug!", He said.
According to an Engadget article, many tech companies have to write a code. adapt to China's strict rules, including its denial of Taiwan's independent status.
Wardle found that certain language / region settings would return a "null" code, causing the crash when referencing the island. He also found that it could be remedied by switching suppliers between China and another region.
Apple fixed the bug in iOS 11.4.1, he said.
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