Tweet crashes Mac Twitter client

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/02/you-doom-us-all-to-inhuman-toil-for-the-one-whose-name-cannot-be-expressed-in-one-hundred-forty-characters/

by kikibobo69 • 13 years ago

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signed02• 13 years ago

It also crashes Chrome's current tab on OSX: http://imgur.com/vRn6Qid

_delirium3• 13 years ago

Weird, not for me. No crash with Chrome 24.0.1312.57 on OSX 10.6.8.

Rayne2• 13 years ago

Not for me either with the same version. It doesn't even render, but it doesn't crash.

signed02• 13 years ago

I'm using 24.0.1312.57 on OSX 10.8.2. Perhaps it is a Lion/Mountain Lion thing.

shurcooL• 13 years ago

It does for me too. But not the neighbour tabs. Also 24.0.1312.57 on OS X 10.8.2.

younata• 13 years ago

firefox 18.0.2 on osx seems to survive...

shardling• 13 years ago

Though it does do unholy things to the tab/window title... :)

eridius• 13 years ago

Doesn't crash Tweetbot or Safari.

duskwuff• 13 years ago

For at least one application, the crash is in:

    0   libvDSP.dylib                 	? + 117458
    1   com.apple.CoreText            	TRun::TRun(TRun const&, CFRange, TRun::SubrangingStyle) + 850
    2   com.apple.CoreText            	CTGlyphRun::CloneRange(CTRun const*, CFRange, TRun::SubrangingStyle) + 142
    3   com.apple.CoreText            	TLine::SetLevelRange(CFRange, unsigned char, bool) + 162
    4   com.apple.CoreText            	TLine::SetTrailingWhitespaceLevel(unsigned char) + 70
    5   com.apple.CoreText            	TRunReorder::ReorderRuns(TBidiLevelsProvider const&, TLine&) + 122
    6   com.apple.CoreText            	TTypesetter::FinishLineFill(TLine&, double, double) const + 142
    7   com.apple.CoreText            	CTTypesetterCreateLine + 131

I'm not familar enough with CoreText internals to guess what's going wrong, though. :)

Systemic33• 13 years ago

No crash on Chromium with Arch Linux

niggler2• 13 years ago

Is this a mountain lion issue or does this affect lion and SL as well?

_delirium3• 13 years ago

Not seeing any crashes on 10.6.x ("Snow Lion") here.

Zirro• 13 years ago

It's "Snow Leopard". Apple isn't running low enough on cats to have to resort to mythological ones just yet ;-)

bsg75• 13 years ago

And unfollowing only solves the problem until someone in your stream retweets it.

So I retweeted it.

mmastrac• 13 years ago

The offending tweet content:

      ه҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͫͬͩͮͨͪͯͥͥͫͪͧͣͯͪͨͣͥͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͥͨͪͫͬͭͮͯͥͤͣͥͨͪͧͣͯͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͨͪͫͬͩͮͯͥͨͣͥͫͪͧͣͯͥͬͪ

Edit: I've narrowed it down to the following byte sequence. I can't seem to remove any of the characters without it no longer crashing:

    00000000  d9 88 d2 88 cd a5 cd a8  cd aa cd af 20 d2 88 d2  |............ ...|
    00000010  88 d2 88                                          |...|
    00000013

Hixie's unicode decoder says this is:

    U+0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW character (&#x0648;)
    U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)
    U+0365 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER I character (&#x0365;)
    U+0368 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER C character (&#x0368;)
    U+036A COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER H character (&#x036A;)
    U+036F COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER X character (&#x036F;)
    U+0020 SPACE character
    U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)
    U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)
    U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)

spydum• 13 years ago

Wow that renders all sorts of glitchy on iPad/safari

spdy• 13 years ago

Interesting on chrome Version 24.0.1312.57 the tab crashes when i try to view the tweet but not here.

Can someone explain what is happening and why the tweet is affecting the tab and this post does not?

In the end both just render unicode characters. And it looks like only Firefox is able to display it correctly on OSX 10.8.

DouweM• 13 years ago

Chrome uses OS X's CoreText for rendering the tab titles, but uses its own text rendering engine for the site body. CoreText is the one that crashes on that unicode.

itistoday2• 13 years ago

How do you type this on a Mac?

myhf• 13 years ago

You could turn on "Unicode Hex Input" in System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources and type in the unicode characters one at a time.

ExtraJ• 13 years ago

Retweeted, of course.

general_failure• 13 years ago

Does anyone else see something funky at the top most comments?

emiliobumachar• 13 years ago

I do. Some justaposition of random chars. I'm on an iPad, what's your machine?

kawsper• 13 years ago

I see it on my Macbook in Chrome running on Mountain Lion.

dade_2• 13 years ago

Yes, looks like this: http://s20.postimage.org/6athqkm3h/image.jpg

Interesting bug.

webbruce• 13 years ago

Yeah my twitter client is crashing now when I switch to another account that's already logged in.

camus• 13 years ago

should it be considered as a new form of attack ? utf attack , or utf malware ( that's a question ).

ihsw• 13 years ago

Is it simply zalgo text? http://eeemo.net/

zemanel• 13 years ago

Crashing for me too .. can't open Twitter.app ...

OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)

lukeman• 13 years ago

I'm sure they'll have a bugfix release out soon to fix this.

Nah, just kidding.

youngerdryas2• 13 years ago

<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text ">ه҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͫͬͩͮͨͪͯͥͥͫͪͧͣͯͪͨͣͥͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͥͨͪͫͬͭͮͯͥͤͣͥͨͪͧͣͯͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͨͪͫͬͩͮͯͥͨͣͥͫͪͧͣͯͥͬͪ</p>

Cool.

Edit: Apparently it is only the unicode

>ه҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͫͬͩͮͨͪͯͥͥͫͪͧͣͯͪͨͣͥͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͥͨͪͫͬͭͮͯͥͤͣͥͨͪͧͣͯͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͨͪͫͬͩͮͯͥͨͣͥͫͪͧͣͯͥͬͪ>ه҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͫͬͩͮͨͪͯͥͥͫͪͧͣͯͪͨͣͥͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͥͨͪͫͬͭͮͯͥͤͣͥͨͪͧͣͯͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͨͪͫͬͩͮͯͥͨͣͥͫͪͧͣͯͥͬͪ>ه҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͫͬͩͮͨͪͯͥͥͫͪͧͣͯͪͨͣͥͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͥͨͪͫͬͭͮͯͥͤͣͥͨͪͧͣͯͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͨͪͫͬͩͮͯͥͨͣͥͫͪͧͣͯͥͬͪ

How is this possible?

dade_2• 13 years ago

Your post corrupts the rendering of this page on my iPad (4 iOS 6).

http://s20.postimage.org/6athqkm3h/image.jpg

youngerdryas2• 13 years ago

I know I see the same on Windows and OSX. Apparently it has something to do with Unicode scripts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_(Unicode)

Edit: It is slightly different looking on Win7.

keikun17• 13 years ago

Aaaand i locked myself out of twitter.

alpb• 13 years ago

Crashes Chrome on Mac (only the tab, not the whole process). Of course retweeted it!

renanbirck• 13 years ago

No crash on either Chrome or Firefox on Arch Linux.

eksith• 13 years ago

Rendering any typeable character(s) should never crash any engine... ever. That said, unicode seems to be the last frontier for the non-viral spread of glitches.

I'm somewhat reminded of this : http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

a_p• 13 years ago

This is the tweet in html character entity form:

  &#1607;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#875;&#876;&#873;&#878;&#872;&#874;&#879;&#869;&#869;&#875;&#874;&#871;&#867;&#879;&#874;&#872;&#867;&#869;&#876;&#874;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#874;&#869;&#872;&#874;&#875;&#876;&#877;&#878;&#879;&#869;&#868;&#867;&#869;&#872;&#874;&#871;&#867;&#879;&#876;&#874;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#1160;&#874;&#872;&#874;&#875;&#876;&#873;&#878;&#879;&#869;&#872;&#867;&#869;&#875;&#874;&#871;&#867;&#879;&#869;&#876;&#874;

Groxx• 13 years ago

Would you mind indenting that two spaces so it shows up

  like this

rather than breaking the page layout?

cicloid• 13 years ago

Also crashes Tweetbot on the Mac

objclxt• 13 years ago

If it's a CoreText bug, which is sounds like it is, it's going to impact any iOS or OS X app that uses Core Text for rendering. That's pretty much everyone.

cleverjake• 13 years ago

This is crashing nightly webkit as well, so it is likely an issue there.

sebastianavina• 13 years ago

correct me if i'm wrong, but somebody is working right now to use this bug in some piece of malicious code...

Void_• 13 years ago

It also crashes Sublime Edit when pasted.

ihuman• 13 years ago

This twitter account and tweet displays fine on TweetBot for iOS, but causes lag when scrolling.

zmarn3• 13 years ago

Really interesting, played around with it locally and it just kill two random neighboring tabs, while not effecting others.

Chrome 24.0.1312.57 | OS x 10.8.2

zmarn3• 13 years ago

Ok, I narrowed down what kills Chrome.

minimalist example:

  data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<p style='font-family: "Times New Roman";'>%D9%88%20%D2%88%D2%88%D2%88

It seems to be a problem with utf-8 vs. unicode + Times New Roman.

tested on: Chrome 24.0.1312.57 | OS x 10.8.2

Edit: also works with other fonts for example Arial

eunice• 13 years ago

Doesn't crash Safari on 10.8.2

Tweet crashes Mac Twitter client

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