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Users affected by the bug can get around the issue by asking the sender to delete the message, or by sending a series of photos or messages to push the booby-trapped text into the archive.Īpple’s iPhones, iPads and the Apple Watch have been plagued by a “text message of death” that crashes Apple’s devices when sent via Messages and a variety of other apps including Snapchat and Twitter. The Skype apps pull a history of chat messages on startup and login, which means that deleting and uninstalling the app cannot solve the issue. It is possible Skype has stopped the messages going through.
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Skype said it was aware of the problem and was working on a solution.ĭuring testing, the Skype for Mac app sent two of the booby-trapped text messages, but subsequent attempts to replicate the crash failed to send.
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Skype for Mac and Skype for Windows 8.1 do not seem affected. If the message was sent from a Skype app on a vulnerable device, the sender’s Skype will also crash and suffer the same ill effects. Reminiscent of Apple’s iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac crash bug, the Skype vulnerability is caused by a much simpler and more common text string “ The text string, which could easily be sent in error when attempting to manually enter a web address, causes the app on the recipient’s device to crash without displaying the message.
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Microsoft’s Skype chat service is vulnerable to a simple booby-trapped text message that causes the app to enter a crash loop that permanently breaks the app on iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows.