Researchers Detail New HomeKit 'doorLock' Bug Affecting Apple iOS | allinfosecnews.com

Jan. 4, 2022, 11:27 a.m. | noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

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A persistent denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in Apple's iOS mobile operating system that's capable of sending affected devices into a crash or reboot loop upon connecting to an Apple Home-compatible appliance.
The behavior, dubbed "doorLock," is trivial in that it can be triggered by simply changing the name of a HomeKit device to a string larger than 500,000 characters

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