From the Reg:
Security researchers have discovered you can crash an iPhone through the medium of a cleverly crafted webpage.
The exploit, dubbed a “memory exhaustion remote denial of service vulnerability” by the SecurityFocus website, affects Apple’s Mobile Safari web browser, a key component of both the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Code up a webpage a certain way - all it takes is 19 lines of JavaScript - and if you can persuade an iPhone user to view it, the site will trigger the handset’s version of Mac OS X to experience a kernel panic and reboot.
Biting tongue.
Tags: iPod Touch, iPhone, iPhone JavaScript Exploit
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